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Israelis at Non-Israeli UniversitiesUniversity of Exeter - Ilan Pappe's claim of an "experiment in famine" diverts attention from Hamas graft and arms smugglingGordon accepts, as fact, Hamas’s complaints about a lack of food and fuel in the Gaza Strip, even as other Palestinian leaders blamed Hamas for manufacturing the crisis. Khaled Abu Toameh, reporting in the Jerusalem Post on Jan. 21, 2008, quoted a Palestinian Authority official who insisted that the bakeries were sufficiently stocked with fuel and flour. ... And while Gordon accuses Israel of conducting an “experiment in famine” he makes no acknowledgement of the humanitarian convoys that were allowed into the Gaza Strip on Jan. 22, four days after the so-called “experiment in famine” began. Gordon also fails to acknowledge that the humanitarian convoys that have been allowed into the Gaza Strip have been used to smuggle explosives into the territory. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Israeli Anti-Zionists finding niche in Academia as "Token Jews"Yet many of these Israeli academics have built their reputation on a scholarship that is harshly critical not only of Israeli policy, but of Israel's very existence. Anti-Israel scholars who hail from Israel are cited favorably by the entire range of Israel's critics. These range from pro-Palestinian groups like the Committee to Stop Demolition of Houses in Palestine, the Committee to Stop Torture and Breaking the Silence to Jewish anti-Zionist groups like the American Council for Judaism. They also include neo-Nazis and Islamists. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of London - Eyal Wiezman (Dept of Visual Cultures) Participated in Conference that promotes "ending the Occupation"The following Israeli academics participated in FFIPP-International Conference that promotes "ending the Occupation":
Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan University -
Dept of Political Studies
It has been almost two years since the
last FFIPP conference in Ramallah. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) plays the Racism cardThe resistance to the Palestinian Return means an unconditional support for the concept of the white enclave. Many of those that in their origin were part of the Arab civilization and who tried to “whiten-up”, i.e., to become Ashkenazi, are today the most ardent supporters of this concept despite the fact that what is awaiting most of them, especially those coming from North Africa and Caucasus, not to even mention members of the Druze, Bedouin and Ethiopian communities, is a thick and impenetrable glass ceiling on the way to a good position on the white island. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) thinks Israel needs to be Destroyed for a Change"There is no chance for peace in the near future because the conditions for it are very fundamental changes in the reality, which take time. Israel has to be de-Zionised before peace is possible, and peace has to include the return of the Palestinian refugees, otherwise it would be a futile exercise." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of East London - Yosefa Loshitzky (Dept. of Film Studies) equates Holocaust survivors to Palestinians“The identities represented in the films that I discuss are marked by victim hood. ... This coalition points to the centrality of victimology in contemporary Israeli identity politics, which ironically, fails to acknowledge Israel's primary victims—the Palestinians. In fact, the basis of the identities of the Mizrahim and the Holocaust survivors resembles that of the Palestinians—the experience of spatial/geographic and cultural/spiritual displacement.” Loshitzky could demonstrate through film how the State of Israel was originally to have included Jordan; how the British screwed the Jews giving it to the Arabs; or how Jews were being murdered by Arab terrorists in Palestine long before Israel was founded by the UN in 1948 while the British looked the other way; how the Arabs have today fabricated a fake nakba (catastrophe) and history that, through the same techniques used by Herr Goebbels, they have managed to persuade the rest of the world that such fabrications are history and truth when they are not. Residing in Britain as an educator, Loshitzky could refute the continuance of blood libel against the Jews among the Brits instead of vilifying Israel with Arab propaganda of Palestinians as victims of Israel under an even bigger umbrella of Jewish victims of Israel from the Holocaust! Ask most Israelis if they feel they are victims or were saved from the Arabs by the creation of Israel, something Loshitzky considers a catastrophe and you will get a resounding no! For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe calls Zionism worse than ApartheidIlan Pappe: There are similarities and dissimilarities. The colonialist history has many chapters in common and some of the features of the Apartheid system can be found in the Israeli policies towards its own Palestinian minority and towards those in the occupied territories. Some aspects of the occupation, however, are worse then the apartheid reality of South Africa and some aspects in the lives of Palestinian citizens in Israel, are not as bad as they were in the hey days of Apartheid. The main point of comparison to my mind is political inspiration. The anti-Apartheid movement, the ANC, the solidarity networks developed throughout the years in the West, should inspire a more focused and effect pro-Palestinian campaign. This is why there is a need to learn the history of the struggle against Apartheid, much more than dwell too long on comparing the Zionist and Apartheid systems. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe's new book serves the basis for a "new blood libel"The descriptions used by JVP are almost all credited to one source: Ilan Pappe’s book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Pappe, for those unfamiliar with him, is a former Israeli lecturer at the University of Haifa who has since relocated to the University of Exeter in the UK. A doctrinaire Marxist who once ran for Knesset with the Communist-led Hadash party, he opposes the existence of Israel as a Jewish state but nonetheless supports "resistance" by Hamas, a radical Islamist movement that seeks to impose sharia law and at least tolerates, if not incites, violence against Christian "infidels" . Most tellingly, he also frankly admits that he is not really interested in facts: “‘We do [historiography] because of ideological reasons, not because we are truth seekers... ‘there is no such thing as truth, only a collection of narratives’.” This philosophy was exposed when one of Pappe’s graduate students, Teddy Katz, was shown to have falsified evidence about an alleged massacre at Tantura in 1948 by claiming that his interview subjects said one thing while the tapes of the interviews proved otherwise. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of East London - Dialogue of the Deaf with Haim Bereshit (Dept. of Cultural Studies)Seth Frantzman conducted an email dialog with Haim Bereshit, excerpts from which are displayed below:
You have a problem, don’t you? Palestinians are NOT indigenous to Israel, but to Palestine, which seems to be a place you are unaware of. There is nothing you can do to remove this fact from reality. Maybe you should think seriously what you are doing there, as long as your attitude is what the message reflects. Haim ===== So, you - an American Jew, is indigenous to palestine, which you typically tell me is Israel, the occupying power... So is someone from Russia, even if they are not Jewish. The only people who have no right to live in Palestine, are of course the Palestinians. This is so simple, just and self-evident that it is breath-takingly obvious. Haim ===== Take me to court for not answering your questions... Haim ===== Why is this such a hard discussion to have? Is it, perhaps, because you cannot answer the question. I don't have to answer the question because I reject the very notion of people being 'indigenous'. Seth Frantzman ===== For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Queen’s University, Canada - Israeli/Canadian Film Professor Dorit Naaman encourages "the murder of fellow IsraelisThe dictionary definition of pornography is “obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, especially those having little or no artistic merit.” While the popular connotation of the term used in media refers to displaying lewd sex acts, Israeli-Canadian filmmaker Dorit Naaman from Queen’s University in Canada doesn’t have to have sex scenes in her films to make them pornographic; as she accomplishes her own manner of lewdness by her encouragement of the murder of fellow Israelis by elevating female Arab terrorists to a level of being just some women seeking equal rights from men, rather than their being female primitives imitating their male counterparts who engage in terrorism and the murder of Jews. Naaman likes to contrast these Palestinian women with Israeli women who defend the Jewish people in the IDF by using a form of equivalency that is truly pornographic if one only takes time to smell the coffee, or look at this woman’s work. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg (Dept. of History) - “Leading Israeli scholar” re-evaluates Zionist ideology and literature.http://www.amazon.com/Returns-Zionism-Politics-Scholarship-Israel/dp/1844672603/ The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-Eastern European nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can be placed within a wider discourse of western colonization. Piterberg revisits the work of Theodor Herzl, Gershom Scholem, Anita Shapira and David Ben-Gurion, among other thinkers influential in the formation of the Zionist myth, to break open prevailing views of Zionism. He demonstrates that it was in fact unexceptional, expressing a consciousness and imagination typical of colonial settler movement. Shaped by European ideological currents and the realities of colonial life, Zionism constructed its own story as a unique and impregnable one, in the process excluding the voices of an indigenous people—the Palestinian Arabs.
UCLA - Yael Korin promotes claims of Israeli "ethnic cleansing"From: Yael Korin Week UCLA THE PALESTINE COALITION PRESENTS University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe claims Israeli "ethnic cleansing"Pappe told the Straight that he didn’t choose the term ethnic cleansing lightly, claiming that he studied it from legal and moral perspectives. “It’s very clear to me that the case of the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948 is a classical example of ethnic cleansing,” he said. “I’m not just using it as an adjective to create sensation.” Moreover, Pappe claimed that there has been “creeping ethnic cleansing taking place in the last eight years in the Greater Jerusalem area and alongside the apartheid wall” that is being built to shield Israel from Palestinian attacks. “I’m also worried that if the Israelis feel that the Palestinian minority within Israel threatens their democratic majority, they would not hesitate to exercise ethnic cleansing in this case as well,” Pappe alleged. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Book Review - Ilan Pappe's book attempts to rewrite history but falls shortReviewed by Seth J. Frantzman Pappe's thesis is that Israel's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, working with the Zionist leadership in Palestine, made special preparations for ethnic cleansing known as Plan D. This plan envisioned the conquest by the Haganah—the Mandate-era precursor to the Israeli army—of areas occupied by Arabs but allotted by the United Nations to the Jewish state. Pappe's evidence for a Zionist plan to cleanse Palestine of its Arab population derives from his interpretations of the Haganah archives and the Israel State Archives files. Among the evidence Pappe finds damning are Haganah intelligence surveys of Arab villages, including information on the number of armed men, the mukhtars (village or neighborhood headmen), and any anti-Zionist activities. Pappe uses the presence of such lists to suggest parallels between Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian Arab suffering as a result of Israel's creation. As a work of scholarship, Pappe's book falls short, and it does so in a particularly damning way. He ignores context and draws far broader conclusions than evidence allows by cherry-picking some reports and ignoring other sources entirely. He does not examine Arab intentions in the five months between the U.N. endorsement of Palestinian partition and Israel's independence, nor does he consider the widespread public statements by Arab officials in Palestine and in neighboring states declaring their goal of eradicating the Jewish presence in Palestine. It is obvious why a polemicist such as Pappe would cleanse—so to speak—his narrative of any such references: To avoid doing so would strike at the core of the reality that he wishes to foist upon his readers, one which precisely inverts the historical record and turns a coordinated Arab attempt at ethnically cleansing Palestine of its Jews into a Jewish attempt at ethnically cleansing Arabs. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Qu’est-ce qu’elle Fabrique? [what’s she up to ?]Nidra Poller Paris March 20 2008 La Fabrique is a small press founded eleven years ago by Eric Hazan, heir of the famous Hazan art press, former Communist and present champion of Israeli “dissidents,” author in his own right, political activist and champion of the Palestinian cause. Dissident also from the capitalist glitz of the annual Paris Book Fair, La Fabrique decided to make an exception this year and set up camp in the djebel of a small stand from which to resist against Israel, the honored guest. Muslim publishers, countries, and individual writers courageously boycotted the Fair to protest Israel’s honored presence. While Israeli writers reveled in attention in the spacious tent of honor, La Fabrique stood firm in a tiny stand decorated with large format photos of Palestinian suffering. Devoid of all outward signs of affiliation, I slip into post-Zionist territory just as an editor emerges from her cubbyhole office in a corner of the stand. “I snuck a smoke,” she says, unapologetically. After all, when you have the courage to face down Israeli tanks you’re not going to be intimidated by a puny little no-smoking law. The odor of tobacco mingles with the stale smell of unwashed militant. Dressed in nondescript faded black, with a colorless face and droopy hair, she’s several steps below what we would call a plain Jane. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Michigan - Neve Gordon (Ben Gurion University - Dept of Political Science) - "Neve Gordon misuses the Classroom to Conduct anti-Israel Propaganda There"Eyewitness Student Testimony from University of Michigan: "Gordon's playground this fall was Arab-Israeli Conflict course with over 200 students. Twice a week, Gordon had the opportunity to fill the fresh minds of University of Michigan students with skewed history and highly politicized anti-Israel rhetoric. He consistently embarrassed students who dared to question or object to his controversial and sometimes offensive claims. "In a lecture on November 14th, Gordon told the class that he wasn’t interested in giving an unbiased academic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict: 'Jeremy asked why I would give a revisionist history. And I give a revisionist history because I think it's true. What's said in a textbook is not what it's about." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Columbia Univeristy – Professor Yinon Cohen, “the court Jew”, chosen to be Director of the Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies in “Bir-Zeit-on-the-Hudson”Professor Yinon Cohen is what some fellow academics have termed a “court Jew,” or at least a Jew that fits historian Bat Y’eor’s description of a dhimmi Jew under Arab and Muslim rule. Cohen’s main field of study and teaching, where he began his academic career, was as a demographer at Tel Aviv U in the sociology department. Cohen has participated in a number of scholarly works in which he portrays negatively the treatment of Palestinian Arabs as victims of Zionism, the Jews emigrating to a Jewish homeland in Israel. Such works speak of “ethnocentrism” as somehow being at the root of Zionism. Thus, how appropriate that Professor Cohen should have participated in one study comparing Israeli immigration trends with those of Germany. After all, the Arabs, who were ardent Nazi allies during the Second World War, today just love to make comparisons between Israelis as being like the Nazis, when Israel is, in fact, a giant refugee camp for the world’s Jews resulting from German Nazi persecution and the Nazi German regime that sought to wipe out the Jewish people. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Virginia – Alon Confino (Dept of Modern German and European History) calls for Israelis to forget 3000 years of history
An anti-history historian By Tom Segev Alon Confino is a professor of modern German and European history at the University of Virginia and an expert in the culture of memory. In an article he published in the periodical Alpayim - A Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature (in Hebrew), Confino calls for eliminating history from the discourse between Jews and Arabs in Israel, "to get rid of the arrogance of the past" and to overcome it. The debate as to what did and did not happen in the past only deepens the rifts, in his opinion. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Princeton University - Avishai Margalit (School of Historical Studies) promotes "half-truths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"Rarely does the mainstream media present both sides of an issue in historical depth to a western audience with enough information to clarify things about Israel's struggle with the Arab world. A sound bite is one of the best weapons for the anti-Israel activists' side, especially by those who practice hit and run propaganda against the Jewish state. A case in point of this tactic is Israeli academic Avishai Margalit, formerly a professor at Hebrew University, now employed as the George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies (even though his field is Philosophy) at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Southampton University - Oren Ben-Dor (Dept. of Law) defends Holocaust Denier** Gilad Atzmon on Anti-Semitic Counterpunch Webzine:We must not legalise the thinking about the Holocaust. We must not turn thinking about it into a moral, legal or indeed factual reflection. The horrors and murderous violence against Jews may have been a response to events that had corrupted the relationship between humans and Being long ago. Grasped thus, the Holocaust may have been severely distorted by National Socialism; by those who are said to "deny" the Holocaust by some arguments about facts; by self-righteous Jews-against-Zionism; by Zionists. All these forms of forgetfulness of the Holocaust may well be on a common matrix of denial. Indeed this denial may constitute a chronicle of another Holocaust foretold. My point is that the Holocaust's significance lies beyond the actions by the Nazis who actually perpetrated the violence and who justified these actions by turning this significance into a militarist object of an idea. The same claim can be made in relation Zionists and their Jewish opponents. Full item here: http://counterpunch.org/bendor03152008.html **Citation from Gilad Atzmon, ex-Israel, Holocaust Denier:"Ostensibly, many of the Jewish cartoonists can't stop themselves from ridiculing the sacred 'six' figure. Nowadays, when some German-speaking nations are actively implementing Holocaust denial laws and arresting historical revisionists, it is rather crucial to emphasize that many Jews do not take the 'six' figure and the Zionist Holocaust narrative very seriously. As we will see next, the Jewish cartoonists portray the Holocaust as an utter manipulative lie." http://www.counterpunch.com/atzmon05012006.html "Atzmon bezeichnete die uns bekannte Geschichtsschreibung über den Zweiten Weltkrieg und den Holocaust als eine komplette, von Amerikanern und Zionisten initiierte Fälschung." [Atzmon labelled the historiography of the Second World War and the Holocaust as we know it a complete forgery invented by Americans and Zionists.] For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Exeter University - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Political Science) Deconstructs TreasonPappe maintains that the claim that the Arab residents fled or left their homes willingly during the war are false, and that a policy of "cleansing" the area from Arabs was employed as part of a plan to establish a Jewish-only state. Pappe made similar claims in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which was published in England in 2006, in which he also presented testimonies of alleged massacres of Palestinians by Jewish soldiers. These claims have been contested by many historians in Israel and abroad. Dr. Mordechai Bar-On, a research fellow at the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute and a former MK, calls Pappe "a propagandist, not a historian." Bar-On said that "the term ethnic cleansing is a vicious one, because it has never been used prior to the wars in former Yugoslavia. Indeed, there were places where Arab were expelled. but to say that there was an evil plan since the inception of Zionism for a forceful transfer . this is simply wrong and vicious." Full piece here: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3516193,00.html
Oxford University - "Efforts to End Israel's Existence at Oxford University" (Avi Shlaim, ex-Israeli, playing central role in this)The Oxford Union narrowly defeated a resolution calling for the Right of Return and demands that Israel become a "state of all its citizens." The motion quotes an article by a former attorney-general of Israel, Michael Ben Yair, who wrote: "We founded an apartheid regime in the territories immediately after their occupation. This oppressive regime continues to exist to this very day." For more details and to see the full original article, go here
University of Exeter - Flunking History: Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Many of these so-called New Historians and their fellow travelers may have embraced the notion of reverse victimization in order to rationalize the unexpected survival of Israel in the 1948 and 1967 wars. They present every massacre of Jews as an understandable response to a Jewish offense... As a work of scholarship, Pappe’s book falls short, and it does so in a particularly damning way. He ignores context and draws far broader conclusions than evidence allows by cherry-picking some reports and ignoring other sources entirely. For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Oxford University - Avi Shlaim denounces Israel for daring to Defend its Civilians:"Israel's current siege of Gaza is a case in point. It involves severe restrictions of food, fuel, and medical supplies to its 1.5 million inhabitants. The aim is to starve the people of Gaza into submission. This is presented to the world as an act of self-defence against the Kassam rocket attacks from Gaza on the residents of Sderot. But rockets attacks on innocent Israeli civilians, however immoral and infuriating, do not justify the official targeting of civilians....There is, however, an ongoing campaign for an academic boycott of Israel. ... What it calls for is the withdrawal of institutional collaboration with Israeli universities. This implies refusal to participate in conferences and research projects organised by Israeli universities and opposition to research grants by the EU to Israeli institutions. The strongest argument in favour of the boycott is that the Israeli authorities interfere with the academic freedom of Palestinian universities. For example, a resident of Gaza who studies or teaches on the West Bank is prevented by the Israeli siege from getting to his or her university For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Yinon Cohen leading the Bash-Israel Bigots at Columbia University'Supporters of Israel on campus say they are disappointed about the appointment of Yinon Cohen as the new director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, in light of his previous statements. A Columbia business professor and co-chair of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Awi Federgruen, called the administration's decision "deeply, deeply troubling." "It's clear that he represents a very extreme segment of the political spectrum in Israel," Mr. Federgruen said. "I also think he is in fact distorting in a major way the history of the region and the history of the country." 'In May 2002, Mr. Cohen, then a professor at Tel Aviv University, endorsed a statement that supported Israelis who refused to serve in military operations in Gaza and the West Bank during a violent uprising by Palestinian Arabs. The letter was signed by 358 faculty members at 21 Israeli colleges and universities. "Such service too often involves carrying out orders that have no place in a democratic society founded on the sanctity of human life," the letter read.' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Network of Expatriate TreacheryBy Steven Plaut 'These ex-Israelis serve as a SWAT team for anti-Semites of all stripes, and as apologists for Arab terror and Islamofascism. A favorite tactic is to place these people on the podium to create "balanced" speaker panels, consisting of both Arabs and Israelis, all of whom inevitably reach the conclusion that the Arab "version" of history is completely correct and that the only reasonable "compromise" is for Israel to capitulate to all Arab demands. After all, both Arabs and Israelis are telling the audience the same things!' For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Columbia University - Yinon Cohen (Dept. of Sociology, until recently at Tel Aviv University) to lead the anti-Israel camp in Columbia UniversityA Columbia business professor and co-chair of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East , Awi Federgruen, called the administration's decision "deeply, deeply troubling." "It's clear that he represents a very extreme segment of the political spectrum in Israel ," Mr. Federgruen said. "I also think he is in fact distorting in a major way the history of the region and the history of the country." In May 2002, Mr. Cohen, then a professor at Tel Aviv University , endorsed a statement that supported Israelis who refused to serve in military operations in Gaza and the West Bank during a violent uprising by Palestinian Arabs. For more details, go to: New Columbia Israel Director Denounced 'Occupation' BY JARED IRMAS - Special to the Sun February 28, 2008 http://www.nysun.com/article/72009
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