Israelis at
Non-Israeli Universities
University of Exeter -
Ilan Pappe Accuses Israel of Genocide
In a
regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state's
" Independence Day,"
Shimon
Peres, the current president of Israel, said the following:
"I
remember how it all began. The whole state of Israel is a millimeter
of the whole Middle East. A statistical error, barren and
disappointing land, swamps in the north, desert in the south, two
lakes, one dead and an overrated river. No natural resource apart
from malaria. There was nothing here. And we now have the best
agriculture in the world? This is a miracle: a land built by people"
(Maariv, 14 April 2013).
This
fabricated narrative, voiced by Israel's number one citizen and
spokesman, highlights how much the historical narrative is part of
the present reality. This presidential impunity sums up the reality
on the eve of the 65th commemoration of the
Nakba, the
ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine…
…
The comparison is very different when it is viewed historically and
it is in this context that we should realize the criminality of
Peres' narrative which is as horrific as the occupation — and
potentially far worse. For the president of Israel, a Nobel Peace
Prize laureate, there were never Palestinians before he initiated in
1993 the
Oslo process — and when he did, they were only the ones living a
small part of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
In his
discourse, he already eliminated most of the Palestinians. If you
did not exist when Peres came to Palestine, you definitely do not
exist when he is the president in 2013. This elimination is the
point where ethnic cleansing becomes genocidal. When you are
eliminated from the history book and the discourse of the top
politicians, there is always a danger that the next attempt would be
your physical elimination.
It
happened before. The early Zionists, including the current
president, talked about the transfer of the Palestinians long before
they actually disposed them in 1948. These visions of a de-Arabized
Palestine appeared in every Zionist diary, journal and inner
conversation since the beginning of the 20th century. If one talks
about nothingness in a place where there is plenty it can be willful
ignorance. But if one talks about nothingness as a vision or
undeniable reality, it is only a matter of power and opportunity
before the vision becomes reality.
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article,
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University of the Witwatersrand - Ran
Greenstein (Dept of Sociology) Presented an Event that Denied
Israeli Democracy and Proclaimed it an Ethnocratic State
Greenstein could not get a REAL job in Israel,
SO instead he fled to the African bush, pretends to be an academic,
and from there defames Israel. Shlomo Sand (TAU) gets in on the act
as well.
The Afro-Middle East Centre and WISER invite
you to the launch of a new book on Israeli politics.
Presented by:
Ran Greenstein
Can a state be both democratic and ethnically self-defined? The
Afro-Middle East Centre's (AMEC) latest publication Pretending
democracy: Israel, an ethnocratic state unpacks this issue by
using Israel as a case study. Based on papers presented at AMEC's
2010 conference themed 'Locating ethnic states in a cosmopolitan
world: The case of Israel', the book interrogates concepts such as
'cosmopolitanism', 'nationalism', 'ethnocracy' and 'citizenship'.
…
One section elaborates on comparisons between Israel, apartheid
South Africa and pre-Good Friday Northern Ireland. Also tackled is
the thorny issue of forms of statehood and rich debate takes place
in the book between those advocating a South Africa-style single
state solution and those promoting a binational state as the most
just solution to the inherent contradictions between Israel's claims
of being both a Jewish and a democratic state and its discrimination
against Palestinian citizens and occupation of Palestinian lands.
The concluding chapter, by assessing post-apartheid South Africa,
looks beyond the conditions and stipulations that would result in a
single state wherein Jews and Arabs enjoy the same rights, to
teasing out the steps that need to be taken to ensure that these
rights are substantive.
Contributors to this volume include
award-winning author Shlomo Sands, whose piece debunks the notion
that Jews form a genealogical ethnicity; South Africa's former
intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, whose chapter uses the South
African Communist Party's 'colonialism of a special type' framework
to assess and explain the behaviour of Israel.
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University of Toronto -
Noa Shaindlinger Joins the Terrorists in Testing IDF Reactions
Shaindlinger and friends contradict local Arab customs that keep
women out of the front lines. In Hebron, she and other extreme-left
activists act as human shields while taking advantage of the IDF's
unwritten agreement that respects the local female population's
non-combatant status.
Annual "Open Shuhada Street" demonstrations have been met with
excessive violence by the Israeli military, as I witnessed myself
this past February. In light of recent successful women-only actions
in Nabi Saleh and the growing visibility of women in protests
throughout the West Bank, local activists decided to test the ground
and see how the army reacts to an all female-direct action. Since
any action in Shuhada street necessarily involves the risk of brutal
arrests, which are much more complicated for Palestinians, they
decided to invite Israeli and international solidarity activists for
this symbolic – but important – act.
…
Later on, as some of us mused that they were probably confused by
our actions. We were women, unarmed, Israeli and international
citizens, which made our presence there perfectly legal. Their
confusion becomes even more obvious when one considers they were
pushing us towards the Palestinian-controlled area, which is legally
forbidden for Israeli citizens.
…
Some of us had expressed doubts about this action. A few said that
the dress-up part reminded them of oriental lore; others were
critical about the prominent role of men in organizing and
"defending" us. But after we exited the checkpoint, spirits were up.
The general sense was that this action was successful – we did,
after all, achieve our goal of walking up Shuhada street to the
checkpoint, as planned, embarrassing the soldiers and the settlers
while we were at it. As one Israeli activist from Jerusalem
explained to me: the idea to dress up originated from Palestinians
as a strategy…
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article,
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Israel-hating Ex-Israelis
in the US announce plans to set an anti-Israel "Opposition"
"It's a
mistake to look at the results of today's election in Israel as a
division between two blocks," says Nitzan Lebovic, a professor of
history and a member of the Israeli Opposition Network. "The large
majority of the parties in both blocks represent something closer to
a Conservative agenda in American and European terms."
"As
advocates for human and civil rights, we fear election results still
reflect a political deadlock that stifles the possibility for
change. The rise of a centrist party calling for the draft of the
ultra religious is not expected to address the more serious concerns
about Israel. As long as control is maintained over a large
population of Palestinians with no representation and no
citizenship, Israel's label as 'democratic' remains an unfulfilled
promise," says Itamar Mann, an Israeli lawyer at Harvard Yale
Law School.
"With over
25% under the poverty line and the wholesale privatization of
national assets to a small number of families, while most of the
public struggle with massive debt and the inability to afford a
home, the current leadership benefits the few while over four
million Palestinians whose lives are controlled by the Israeli
Government could not participate in the vote," says Liron Mor,
currently at Columbia Cornell University.
"We want
Israel to be a democracy. We are part a growing opposition in
Israel, not only to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza but
also to the corrupt and unjust economic policies that have sent the
middle classes spiraling into poverty. We care deeply for the public
in Israel, are extremely concerned for the residents of the occupied
territories and for future of the state in the region. We believe we
must raise our voices in the US to show that there is a young and
capable democratic opposition to the current Israeli leadership,"
says Yael Berda, an Israeli Lawyer at Princeton University.
For more details and to see the full original
article,
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University of London -
Eyal Weizman's (Centre for Research Architecture - Director)
Agitprop Constructed on Hate
Weizman's perceptions of "humanitarian
law" have led him to promoting the aims of the Palestinian
terrorists and Hamas apparatchiks, and his ideas are based on those
of dead French communists and Ayatollah Khomeini supporter Michel
Foucault. His "Forensic Architecture" (a nonsense term he invented)
allows him to tie his field of study to complain about
Israel's
"occupation" as a "violation of human rights." Apparently, the
blowing up school of buses of Jewish children is NOT a forensic
human rights violation.
In an interview in a
communist website about his book, Hollow Land, he ties
architectural structures to his condemnations of
Israel… Weizman's architectural analysis leads to his
condemnations of the IDF, citing, for example, the tactic of
boring through the walls of Arab homes in Jenin to avoid ambushes on
the streets outside as a horrific atrocity by
Israel.
He doesn't mention (or probably even care) how 23 IDF soldiers were
killed unnecessarily in an ambush in fighting in the
streets of Jenin back in 2002 that led the IDF to develop such a
life-saving tactic…
Hollow
Land
and three other architecture oriented books by Weizman were all
published by the Marxist ultra-leftist Verso publishing house in
London, which publishes all manner of anti-Israel and revolutionary
communist propaganda books for the
communist reading market.
Other publishers worldwide ignore such books.
…
Of course, Weizman is heavily involved with such far-leftist
anti-Israel NGO's which try to present Israel's lifesaving Security
Fence as an "Apartheid Wall" that denies human rights to the
Palestinians. After all, it makes it tougher for them to send out
suicide bombers. Weizman served on the board of directors of the
extremist
anti-Israel, EU-funded NGO B'tselem, which strives to smear
Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and the IDF and Israel in
general whenever possible.
…
Quoting another
interview with Weizman:
"If you look at the layout of settlements, they are always built on
hilltops. People know that, but they may not realize that they also
are built in rings, over the summit, in a way that generates
territorial surveillance in all directions. I began to understand
that these are urban-scale optical devices, and every design move in
them is calculated to enhance vision. The planners always speak
about the view as pastoral and biblical, almost in a romantic sense.
They speak about the terraces and olive groves and stone houses,
which are obviously created for them by the Palestinians. The
Palestinians are almost like the stage workers who create a set, but
they then have to disappear when the lights come on. The army also
uses the eyes of the civilian settlers, almost hijacks them, to
generate territorial surveillance. There is almost an illegal use of
civilians to generate supervision of another part of the civilian
population."
…
Weizman is also on the board of advisors of the Human Rights Project
at Bard College in upstate New York, the only college in the
U.S.
that has
an official chapter of the ISM and was involved in planning the
Gaza Flotillas. It is a strange juxtaposition of Israeli leftists
and communist-anarchists who affix to everything, even architecture, the idea that Israel violates humanitarian law and decency.
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Queen Mary University of
London and USC - Hagit Bohrer's (Dept of Linguistics) L.A. Times
diatribe is a masterpiece in lies and pseudo-history
Bohrer
was born in Israel and moved to the US at the tender age of 25 to
attend graduate school under Chomsky. But two years earlier she was
already part of "Palestinian solidarity activities," in her words,
as well as anti-Zionist groups both in and outside of Israel. These
include the Hamsin Collective, the Committee in Solidarity with the
Palestinian People, the Deir Yassin Committee, Women in Black
(London and Israel) and others.
As it
turns out, it was long before the Oslo debacle in 1993 when Hagit
Bohrer decided she was a supporter of Palestinian irredentist terror
groups. As a linguist, she says her specialty is syntax, or how
sentences and words are formed. She uses this skill well in her
diatribes against Israel, where she lies by omission, leaving out
just enough information to demonize Israel. She uses no "syntax"
where Israel is concerned, preferring to claim that Israel is a
great big bully that persecutes Arabs and stole their country—even
Jerusalem. In doing this, she even claims the Six Day War was all
Israel's fault, a device to steal east Jerusalem from the peace
loving Arabs.
In an
article she wrote for the
LA Times explaining why she was on the ISM Gaza Flotilla boats
to aid Hamas, Hagit Bohrer explained why she was helping a terror
group whose Charter calls for ultimate annihilation of all world's
Jews. She also
appeared on You Tube calling Israel "her country," even though
she has spent her entire career abroad. She then participated in the
Flotilla whose real aim is to open up the sea lanes for Iran to
bring in missiles to shoot at Israelis.
…
'It is a different Jerusalem now. It is not their Jerusalem, for it
has been taken from them. Every day the Palestinians of Jerusalem
are further strangled by more incursions, by more 'housing
developments' to cut them off from other Palestinians. In Sheikh
Jarrah, a neighborhood built by Jordan in the 1950s to house
refugees, Palestinian families recently have been evicted from their
homes at gunpoint based on court-sanctioned documents purporting to
show Jewish land ownership in the area dating back some 100 years.
But no Palestinian proof of ownership within West Jerusalem has ever
prevailed in Israeli courts. Talbieh, Katamon, Baca, until 1948
affluent Palestinian neighborhoods, are today almost exclusively
Jewish, with no legal recourse for the Palestinians who recently
raised families and lived their lives there."
…
And more still from her: "Did we know in 1967, in 1948, that it
would come to this? Some did. Some knew even then that a society
built on conquest and dispossession would have to dehumanize the
conquered in order to continue to dispossess and oppress them.
…
Continuing the diatribe, she says, "Let us note that some Israeli
Jews do stand up and protest. There are soldiers who refuse to
serve, journalists who highlight injustice, and human rights
organizations, activist groups, information centers. In a sense, all
of us seeking justice have been on a virtual boat to Gaza all these
decades. We have been trying to break through the Israeli blockade,
in its many incarnations. We wish to say to the Palestinians that,
yes, there are people in Israel who know that any viable future for
the Middle East must be based on a just peace — not the forced
imposition spelled out by Netanyahu to Congress — or else we are all
doomed. We want it known that the soldier is not the only face of
Israeli Jews. There are those who say to the government of Israel,
'You do not represent us.' "
For more details and to see the full original
article,
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Tel Aviv University - TAU
Students Fight Against Academic Boycott
They
stand up to face off the well-orchestrated boycott campaign which is
promoted in part by Israeli NGO's and Israeli Academics
The
biggest sin of Joy Harjo was that she has written on her Facebook
page she's on her way to visit Tel Aviv. Harjo, a Native American
poet and musician, was invited to perform for students of the
Department of American Studies at TAU, and provide a glimpse into
the rich, indigenous culture of the American continent. But the
anti-Israel activists had other plans for her: Within a few hours
after her announcement, Harjo's Facebook and Twitter accounts were
filled with dozens of threats and hate talkbacks.
…
[Coalition of Women for Peace]'s member, Dr. Dalit Baum, a former
lecturer at Haifa University and today a US resident, presented
herself as a an "Israeli teacher" and begged Harjo to boycott TAU
and its students, again, because of the so called "apartheid." Yes,
the same TAU which allowed its Arab students only a few months ago
to host a 'Nakba' memorial ceremony is now accused of being an
apartheid institution…
In
response, we, dozens of TAU students from across the Israeli
political spectrum, have personally wrote a letter of support to Joy
Harjo. Those activists call themselves "liberal and feminist," but
at the same time they choose to intimidate an elder spiritual woman
and Native American human rights activist into boycotting knowledge,
freedom of thought, ideas and people - all the things which form the
foundation of the academic institution we are so proud to be
educated in.
…
Joy Harjo's case revealed once again the true face of the
well-orchestrated boycott campaign being waged in recent years
around the world against Israel - often with the help of Israelis -
to pull the rug out from under Israel's legitimacy, its institutions
and its society. This is a campaign that relies primarily on
intimidation of many people overseas who are not proficient in the
complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using half-truths
and whole lies that are constantly presented as facts. It is also
difficult not to notice the paradox, in which Israeli academics,
with the backup of self-proclaimed "peace NGO's," promote the
boycott of academic institutions while they still educate
generations of Israeli students and scholars, the future of the
Jewish state.
For more details and to see the full original
article,
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University of Exeter -
The Pappe Continues to Rewrite History
The
pseudo-historian Ilan
Pappe declares Plan Daled (D) proof of Israel's 'ethnic cleansing'.
It was
written "Imagine that not so long ago, in any given country you are
familiar with, half of the entire population had been forcibly
expelled within a year, half of its villages and towns wiped out,
leaving behind only rubble and stones…"
The
quote is from the introduction to Ilan Pappe's 'The Ethnic Cleansing
of Palestine'. Pappe, a senior lecturer in political science at the
University of Haifa until 2007, is currently a professor at the
University of Essex and director of its European Centre for
Palestine Studies. He is foremost among Israeli 'New Historians'
who, since the publication in the 1980s of Israeli and British
documents from the period, have radically rewritten the history of
the Jewish State's foundation and the flight of 700,000 Palestinians
from its territory.
Pappe
argues that the exodus was not a mere by-product of terror and chaos
but the result of a deliberate strategy designed to facilitate the
consolidation and expansion of the new Jewish State. The key
document which he and others cite is Plan Dalet (Dalet is the Hebrew
letter D).
…
However, it is clear from the material which has subsequently become
available that Zionist leaders of the time saw the UN plan not as a
compromise settlement but as a stepping-stone towards their
objective of a state based on Jewish religious identity to include
all of the "Land of Israel" — the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem as
well the territory allocated to Israel. Which meant clearing the
Palestinians out.
Pappe
quotes Ben Gurion on December 3, 1947: "They can either be mass
arrested or expelled; it is better to expel them."
…
It is happening in Gaza today.
The
problem does not have to do with "ancient hatreds", with the
belligerence of this side or that or both, or with something wicked
in Judaism or Islam or both. The problem is the state of Israel.
For more details
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University of California Berkeley
and Beit Berl College: Professor Smadar Lavie makes sure Israel is
accused of racism even if it ain't so
The
cultural differences between Mizrahim and Ahskenazim Jewry have
pretty much disappeared over the last 60 years, especially among the
highly-mobile and successful Iraqi Jews. Jews of all cultures
co-mingle and intermarry today in Israel.
But
demonstrably un-oppressed college professors, in this case the
anthropologist Smadar Lavie, still try to build up reputations and
fame for themselves by whining about how badly the Mizrahim,
particularly women, are victimized by evil Israel. Their favorite
nonsense word is "racism" (Mizrahim are hardly a "race."). Lavie's
obsession about "Arab Jews" is a bit of an anomaly. For the Arabs,
Jews are not Arabs and never were, except in propaganda designed to
deny to Jews any right of self-determination. The Arabs are, in
fact, the worst racists in the world and the worst oppressors of
women, a little matter about which ultra-feminists like Lavie have
little interest or concern…
Much
of her research concerns the Bedouin community in Israel, but she
classifies the Israeli Mizrahim as victims of the big bad Ashkenazim
too. Of interest is the fact that Lavie's mother was Mizrahi, but
her father was an Ashkenazi Jew! One has to wonder at the parental
dynamics and if father issues played a part that made a woman who
had a child with a man then converted to lesbianism (that certainly
aided her career advancement) has an axe to grind…
A word
about the Bedouin in Israel: … The Bedouin have been repeatedly
squatting on government lands that do not belong to them, but which
they claim ancestral ownership and Israel's radical left like Smadar
Lavie fall all over themselves to get them what they want. They are
also given preference in Israeli universities.
The reality is not the same as Lavie would have the world believe
about the moral "bankruptcy" of the Jewish state.
…
Smadar Lavie was in the California media a few years back when she
allegedly kidnapped her own child from shared custody with the
father. She had earlier come to the United States to promote her
"academic" career. The courts sided with the father on custody
issues. Today she is back in Israel, although claims to keep her
professorial affiliation with UC Berkeley. She also claims to be a
professor at Beit Berl College in Israel. She was once active in the
so-called
Israeli Black Panthers, which later morphed into a communist
front. Today, she advocates for the academic boycott of Israel,
including of her own college.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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University of Exeter - Pseudo-Historian Ilan
Pappe likens Israel to Aboriginal dispossession and South African
Apartheid
Pappe returns with another fact-free round of
pseudo-academic Israel Bashing from Down Under
If the creation of the state of Israel was akin to the ethnic
cleansing of the resident Palestinians, does the establishment of
colonial Australia amount to the same thing for the indigenous
population?
This is the hypothesis put to Professor Ilan Pappe, an Israeli
historian who is no stranger to controversy and unpopular arguments,
on his latest tour of Australia.
“I think it's a very very fair comparison,” he says. “Both
societies are settler colonial societies, dispossessing the
indigenous people.”
…
Another historical comparison is that of apartheid South Africa,
Professor Pappe says. Invoking the word "apartheid" is highly
provocative; the term has legal implications as well as emotive
ones, but he is resolute that the name is justified.
The ideology of apartheid – of separation, of segregation – is
not dissimilar in the two countries, he says, arguing that
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has also drawn the comparison between the
two situations. “I don't think it's too strong a term. As a scholar
I would like to go deeply into the comparison and see the
similarities as well as the dissimilarities. But from the general
perspective of what kind of attitude Jews have towards non-Jews in
the state of Israel, I don't know of a better term in a legal realm
in that respect.”
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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Evergreen College, Washington State
and now SUNY Plattsburg: Simona Sharoni – the ex-pat Israeli who
sent Rachel Corrie to her Death
Few people know
that it was
a radical leftist anti-Israel ex-pat Israeli professor in
"Women's Studies" at Corrie's alma mater, Evergreen College, who
recruited Rachel Corrie to go commit suicide for the Hamas. She
inculcated in Corrie the idea that one creates "peace" and "conflict
resolution" by supporting and being a human shield for Arab
terrorists, while interfering with anti-terror operations.
That "professor" is Simona
Sharoni, currently in the Women's Studies Department at State
University of occupied New York.
Sharoni is one of
the founders of the violently anti-Israel International Solidarity
Movement (ISM)-linked group
Women In Black,
an organization
that supports the Hamas. These "Women" are never disturbed by the
mass murders of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists. "Women in Black"
frequently attacks Israel as a male-dominated warrior society that
supposedly subjugates both women and Arabs. As far as we know, they
have never had a single word to say about the oppression of women in
Arab culture and society.
…
A new book has been put out by the ISM titled "I Stand Alone," which
is supposed to be made up of St. Rachel's scribbling in her
"journal… In the "book" Rachel describes
how three Evergeen College professors influenced her decision to go
to Gaza and serve as an accomplice for the Hamas. She
specifically recounts that Simona Sharoni was one of those who
molded her mindset to join the ISM and become a human shield. We use
the word mind loosely.
…
So here we have an unstable young woman who was indoctrinated by a
college professor into believing that she could change the world for
the better by aiding terrorist movements, engaging in "legitimate
resistance." Her then boyfriend, another ISM activist whom she
discussed in her book, admitted to a Seattle reporter after her
death that Rachel did not consider herself a peace activist, but an
anarchist.
Rachel Corrie
sought to aid the Jew-killers of Hamas in their "resistance" against
"oppression", reciting clearly slogans and ideas garnered from
her professor Simona Sharoni. New information has emerged that
Simona Sharoni
may have offered college credit to Rachel Corrie for her volunteer
activities in Gaza on behalf of the ISM and the Hamas.
Simona Sharoni is
the real person who should have been sued by the Corrie family for
recruiting Rachel into the ISM.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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Indiana University – Jon Simons
(Dept of Communications), Ex-Pat Israeli - the US "Peace Now"
Mouthpiece
When it comes to
Israel's Ariel College being granted university status by the
country's Council on Higher Education, Professor Simons has been
leading the war AGAINST it! Alas, Ariel College is located across
Israel's
Green Line (Curious to note that Indiana University also lies
outside the boundaries of the original 13 colonies!). He wrote an
article that appeared in an ultra-leftist internet magazine,
Ceasefire, in which he complained that granting Ariel College such
lofty status would only serve to promote the "occupation" and
somehow be responsible for helping to derail "the two state
solution."
…
In his Ceasefire article, Simons joins the attack by other Israeli
academics (supposedly 1000) opposed to a new Israeli university
status for Ariel College.
…
Simons even uses a quote from a colleague to warn against "the 'academization
(sic - another made up polysyllable) of the occupation' if the
college in Ariel became a university." Quoting still another
colleague, he admonishes his readers that "…the University in Ariel
would be a stain on the reputation of Israeli scholarship and
research. He also understood that the approval of the college as a
university would invite calls for an international academic
boycott."
Such fuzzy
thinking from Simons becomes more evident if one reads his abstracts
from his other scribbling. Israel, you see, is guilty of everything
when it comes to "branding" (selling) the notion of peace.
Simons, as a
member of and promoter of the American wing of "Peace
Now," the EU-funded Israeli "peace" movement that supports
whatever the Arabs want, promotes the NGO's destructive agenda
against the Jewish people.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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University of East London - Haim Bresheeth (Professor of Jew Baiting)
Expresses his anti-Zionistic Thoughts
Wants to destroy Israel economically because
it's all Israel's fault
Israeli Governments
"I don't think there is the slightest
difference between the different Israeli governments in one
important respect - the Zionist project was, is, and will be about
the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian population of
Palestine. It was this, it is this, and it will be this - every
Israeli government has done this - it doesn't matter if it was Barak
and now Sharon or Netayahu before him - it was no different..."
Wanting Peace?
"They [Israel] will do everything to make you
believe that they want peace - I even believed it once and most of
you have believed it - I know that. They will do everything to make
sure that people in the West believe that they want peace - they
will go to meetings, they will sign documents - they will do all
that and then they will make damn sure that there is no chance of
any of this happening..."
Boycott Israel
"If you are making sure in every shop you go
everyone knows that because they hold Israeli products you don't buy
there - if you bring about the destruction of the Israeli economy
which Mr. Sharon is doing such a great job of and you help him in
that destruction, more Israelis will come to their bloody senses and
will realize that justice is not divisible, peace is not divisible,
humanity is not divisible - you cannot divide them. We will have
peace - they will have peace, we will have water - they will have
water, we will have human existence if they will have it..."
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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University of Leicester - Ex-pat
Israeli Claudia Prestel (Dept of Historical Studies) is a walking
fifth column against Israel's existence.
Claudia Prestel is
a Reader in Jewish history at the University of Leicester,
specializing in German-Jewish history. She is even listed as a
member of the University's Center for the Study of the Holocaust.
But do not be fooled. Prestel also is an active member of the
so-called "Friends of Al Aksa" on her campus. She is relentless in
her hatred and attacks against Israel.
…
Prestel likes to chant the anti-Semitic refrains of the terrorists
about how pregnant Palestinian women regularly lose their babies at
checkpoints (which are not there to stop terrorists and suicide
bombers but to prevent Palestinian births). These claims are
fiction, which show that Prestel belongs to the Ilan Pappe school of
pseudo-scholarship.
…
Prestel doesn't limit herself to just the written word. She
pontificates live at Friends of Al Aksa presentations, whose leader
helped organize the Mavi Mamara Turkish terrorist flotilla incident.
There she "discusses" Jewish history as a litany of abuse against
the Palestinian population. She functions as the Jewish
"confirmation" that Arab terrorists are in fact nothing more than
peace-loving pacifists interested in quilting
Notably, Prestel
also supports the boycott, divestments and sanctions movement of
economic aggression against Israel, having participated in and
supported the Ride
for Palestine in the UK. She doesn't mind starving Jews out of
their country to show her humanitarianism.
…
Claudia Prestel is in favor of annihilating the Jewish state of
Israel in order to create an Arab dominated Islamofascist state in
its place. She signed
a petition put out by Ali Abunimah, an ISM leader and
Palestinian crony of President Obama, and the Arab Action Network,
an irredentist group that insists on the "Palestinian Right of
Return" for any Arab who claims he or she is a refugee. Her
co-signers on the petition read like a list of British and American
Who's Who of tenured anti-Semites.
Prestel is so
intellectually bankrupt she even supports to this day the infamous
long-debunked Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of atrocities
against Gaza and Hamas during Operation Cast Lead. She did this
after Goldstone himself said
the Report is untrue. Other petitions she has signed
object to any assistance given to Israel even to defend itself.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe
(Dept of Israel Bashing) continues his Jihad against the Jews
Like
Amiram Goldblum, Pappe wishes to transform Israeli "mentality
and ideology" externally by force
For an activist,
the realization that change from within is unattainable not only
grows from an intellectual or political process, but is more than
anything else an admission of defeat. And it was this fear of
defeatism that prevented me from adopting a more resolute position
for a very long time. After almost thirty years of activism and
historical research, I became convinced that the balance of power in
Palestine and Israel pre-empted any possibility for a transformation
within Jewish Israeli society in the foreseeable future. Though
rather late in the game, I came to realize that the problem was not
a particular policy or a specific government, but one more deeply
rooted in the ideological infrastructure informing Israeli decisions
on Palestine and the Palestinians ever since 1948. I have described
this ideology elsewhere as a hybrid between colonialism and romantic
nationalism.[1]
Today, Israel is a
formidable settler-colonialist state, unwilling to transform or
compromise, and eager to crush by whatever means necessary any
resistance to its control and rule in historical Palestine.
Beginning with the ethnic cleansing of 80 percent of Palestine in
1948, and Israel's occupation of the remaining 20 percent of the
land in 1967, Palestinians in Israel are now enclaved in
mega-prisons, bantustans, and besieged cantons, and singled out
through discriminatory policies.
…
But there is really no other alternative [to supporting BDS]. Any
other option—from indifference, through soft criticism, and up to
full endorsement of Israeli policy—is a wilful decision to be an
accomplice to crimes against humanity. The closing of the public
mind in Israel, the persistent hold of the settlers over Israeli
society, the inbuilt racism within the Jewish population, the
dehumanization of the Palestinians, and the vested interests of the
army and industry in keeping the occupied territories—all of these
mean that we are in for a very long period of callous and oppressive
occupation. Thus, the responsibility of Israeli Jews is far greater
than that of anyone else involved in advancing peace in Israel and
Palestine. Israeli Jews are coming to realize this fact, and this is
why the number who support pressuring Israel from the outside is
growing by the day. It is still a very small group, but it does form
the nucleus of the future Israeli peace camp.
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University of Exeter – Another
Israel-Bashing Quote Cited by Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel Bashing)
Has Been Shown to be Source-less
Well, it is time
for Pappé to provide the source for yet another quote, this one
attributed to Sir Walter Shaw, chairman of the commission charged
with investigating the 1929 riots.
…
On page 248 of The Rise & Fall of A Palestinian Dynasty: The
Husaynis 1700-1948, Pappé reports the following: "'The principal
cause [of the riots]", Shaw wrote after leaving the country, 'was
twelve years of pro-Zionist policy.'"
Again, historian
Benny Morris has challenged this quote…
CAMERA has
inspected the record for the 46th meeting of the Shaw Commission
(included in volume two) and looked for the quote in question.
…
The quote Pappé attributed to Sir Walter Shaw is not in any of these
locations… Did Sir Walter Shaw actually write the words attributed
to him, or is this another invention similar to the quote Pappé
falsely attributed to David Ben-Gurion in 2006?
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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UCLA - Leftist Fascist Gabriel
Piterberg (Dept. of History) Jihads against Freedom of Speech for
Pro-Israel Speakers
Anti-Israel
Propaganda should be the only Protected form of Speech
Piterberg did not
object to the principles that President Yudof outlined. Rather, in
his convoluted presentation, he denounced the statement because it
used the principles of free speech to condemn tactics that
anti-Israel activists have been using with increasing frequency.
Piterberg charged that the statement "criminalized political
dissent."
...Rather than recommend that anti-Israel activists moderate their
behavior, Piterberg went on the attack. He charged that the
statement was biased and showed unwarranted, "disproportionate
concern for Jewish students" and alleged that it ignored "harassment
and threats to Palestinian and Arab students and their allies,"
though he could not cite any comparable examples of anyone
disrupting their events. He denied that defacing Israeli symbols was
an affront to Jewish students, declaring that it is racist to
associate all Jews with Israel. He ridiculed the idea that
anti-Semitism is a problem on campus, mocking such concerns as a
figment of overwrought imaginations. To prove his point, he showed a
Seinfeld clip satirizing such concerns.
Piterberg then
argued that anti-Israel activists' actions do not deny the free
speech of others. He accused pro-Israel groups of misrepresenting
the extremism of these incidents. Then, in a breathtaking inversion
of reality, Piterberg contended that when incidents did become
menacing or violent, it was because pro-Israel groups fomented or
initiated the threatening atmosphere, essentially blaming the
victims.
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UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg (Dept. of
History) Invents "Ethnic Cleansing" of Arabs by Israel, even if
history proves otherwise
But there is a
danger that debate could become too narrowly focused on the single
issue of whether or not there was an Israeli master plan to effect a
comprehensive expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs from their homes in
1948. [2] The moral pressure behind this obsessive question is
understandable, and should be respected. But it is also true that it
takes for granted that what matters is the framework of the
perpetrators, not the perspective of the victims. The existence or
otherwise of an explicit Zionist intention to unleash ethnic
cleansing, under cover of war, poses problems that Israelis
certainly need to confront....
The reality is that the eventuality of massive expulsions was
inherent in the nature of Zionist colonization in Palestine long
before war broke out in 1948.
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Oxford's Israel-Hating ex-Israeli
Avi Shlaim says that Israel is "the main threat to regional
stability"
The challenge for
Obama is to reign in his reckless junior ally and to reorder
American priorities in the Middle East. The main threat to regional
stability is not Iran but the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian
territories. And the main source of hostility towards America
throughout the Arab and Muslim lands is Israel's oppression of the
Palestinian people and America's complicity in this oppression.
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and to see the full original article,
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University of Exeter – Harvard
Invites the Academic Fraud Ilan Pappe to come Lobby for Israel's
Extermination
The "star" of the Harvard pogrom will
be Ilan Pappe, who is arguably the most
thoroughly discredited pseudo-academic on the planet. Pappe is a
notorious fabricator, someone who
claims proudly that facts and truth are of no importance.
…
His own University of Exeter recently
chastised him for his
infamous habit of playing fast and loose with facts. Pappe is best
known as a fulltime anti-Israel propagandist who
has done more than any other
anti-Israel Israeli
to promote the moral equivalence of "Nakba denial" with Holocaust
denial. He is a "new
historian" in the sense of pseudo-historian. His mission in life
is to invent an imaginary Palestinian historic "narrative." Nearly
all those
beating the "Nakba" drum today
cite Pappe and his
"books" about the supposed "ethnic
cleansing" of Arabs by Israel in its war of independence. (For
those who do not know, "Nakba," meaning "catastrophe," is how Arabs
refer to Israel's birth.)
Pappe was a lecturer in political
science at the University of Haifa, but moved to resume the position
of
a pseudo-academic propagandist position at the University of Exeter in the UK. Even other
anti-Zionists
have repudiated Pappe as a
liar and fabricator.
He openly calls for
Israel to be exterminated and
endorses Hamas
terrorism. He
considers Noam Chomsky insufficiently anti-Israel.
[Pappe] was also the central figure in
the now infamous "Tantura Affair." In this incident, Pappe
coached a graduate student of his
into inventing a
non-existent "massacre" of Arabs by the Hagana Jewish militia (Alexandroni
Brigade) in Tantura, south of Haifa, a "massacre" that Pappe claims
took place in 1948. Not a shred of any evidence for any such
"massacre" exists. Arab and other journalists who were present at
the time of the battle that took place in Tantura reported no
massacre. Arabs living in the town at the time confirmed that a
battle did occur, but that after the battle the Jewish militiamen
aided and assisted the townspeople, not massacring anyone… [The
graduate student] later
admitted in court with his lawyer present that the entire
massacre was an invention.
No matter – Pappe
roams the world and
continues to spread the lie about the imaginary Tantura "massacre,"
a lie that has found its way into nearly every
anti-Semitic web site
and
Neo-Nazi magazine on
Earth, and even a
handful of otherwise respectable mainstream journalists
foolishly rely upon him. Pappe has lied about practically everything
else, including about
being "persecuted" by
his own university in
Israel. In fact, Pappe was never fired for his fraud and fabrication
by
the University of Haifa, although he should have been. (Some
wags even suggested the university should be boycotted for not
firing Pappe.) That did not stop Pappe from
waving his stigmata as "victim of Zionism" before the European
anti-Semites
promoting "divestment" from Israel. His recruitment by the
University of Exeter proves how indifferent that school is to
scholarly standards. His coming appearance as the star of the
Harvard academic pogrom shows that things are not much better there.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
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Taking the "academic" Jihad to
Harvard:
Dalit Baum (University of Haifa) and Ilan Pappe (University of
Exeter) are Slated to Participate in Rwandan-Style "One State
Solution" Conference
Harvard University
is going to be hosting a conference entitled "One State Conference:
Israel/Palestine and the One State Solution," scheduled to take
place March 3-4.
…
Speakers include, Ali Abunimah, the Executive Director of the
Electronic Intifada; Dalit Baum, of the BDS organization Coalition
of Women for Peace; Ilan Pappe, radical left Israeli academic and
fervent supporter of the BDS movement; Marc Ellis, Director of the
Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, who compares Zionism
to colonialism and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the
Nazi treatment of Jews; as well as a number of other academics and
scholars who advocate similar beliefs.
"Most of the
speakers are heavily involved in anti-Israel advocacy. The
conference program features an activist workshop, in contrast to
an academic or research framework in which different perspectives
are presented… Such events represent the antithesis of constructive
academic dialogue and peaceful coexistence," the NGO Monitor
claimed.
"Those who promote
a one-state 'solution' advocate creating an entity which would,
through its merger with the Palestinian Arab population of the West
Bank and Gaza and an influx of Palestinians from neighboring states,
lose its Jewish majority and its Jewish character. In effect, Jewish
self-determination would be nullified," the Committee for Accuracy
in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) reported. The forum is
clearly focused, therefore, on "dismantling the Jewish State of
Israel."
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and to see the full original article,
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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe
(Dept of Israel Bashing) working for another "Final Solution"
The adherents of
this veiled assault on Israel argue that the "two-state solution,"
"in which Israel is secure and the Palestinians have sovereignty,"
as President Obama told Time magazine, has been a failure. Of
course, the two-state solution has failed because since 1948, the
first time Arabs rejected a Palestinian state, a critical mass of
Palestinian Arabs have wanted something more than sovereignty: they
want Israel destroyed and her land possessed by Arabs from "the
river to the sea," as PLO chief Yasser Arafat used to say. The
one-state solution, which envisions a single nation comprising Arabs
and Jews under a single government, is a way to achieve the same
aim. Such a state would obviously require the end of Israel's Jewish
identity, and would result in an Arabic demographic explosion that
in any kind of representative government would marginalize Jews.
Moreover, we can see the most likely sort of regime that would rule
the "one state" by looking next door at Egypt, where Islamists are
now in control and relations with Israel have deteriorated. Whatever
the result, such a state would not resemble the liberal democracy of
Israel today.
…
Even more suggestive of the conference's bias is the presence of
Ilan Pappé, whose
scholarly malfeasance got him cashiered from Haifa University
over his involvement in a student's master's thesis that fabricated
an Israeli massacre of Palestinians. Such an episode will surprise
no one familiar with Pappé's own work, which as historian Efraim
Karsh has written, displays a "consistent resort to factual
misrepresentation, distortion, and outright falsehood." Pappé is
clearly an ideologue and propagandist, as he frankly admits: he
sneers at "objectivity," professes that he is "not as interested in
what happened as in how people see what's happened," and crows that
"my ideology influences my historical writings." That such a
travesty of the profession of history is invited to speak at a
prestigious university testifies to how intellectually and morally
corrupt the American academy has become.
This rather loose
attitude towards evidence and fact embraced by Pappé reveals itself
as well in the
on-line descriptions of the panel topics, where one finds libels
such as references to "the original 700,000 [Arabs] who were
ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 1948 and 1967," moral
cowardice in phrases such as "a great deal of violence has isolated
the two peoples from one another," and the de rigueur
question-begging epithet: "How can justice for the victims of racism
or violence be achieved?" You get the picture: racist Israelis who
ethnically cleansed Arabs from their homeland and incited a "cycle
of violence" need to abandon their Jewish identity and their
ancestral lands in order to resolve a bloody conflict.
…
Winning international sympathy and support for the "oppressed"
Palestinians has been a critical element in the "phases" strategy.
The Kennedy School conference––like the boycott of Israeli
academics, one of whose prime movers is Ilan Pappé–– is yet another
example that this strategy to destroy Israel by manipulating
international opinion has been working. The "one-state solution" is
in fact an enabler of a slow-motion final solution.
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USC – Yigal Arens (Dept of Computer
Sciences) – the Al Awda Jew of the Jihad
Yigal Arens is a
self-proclaimed Marxist (a bit strange since Marxism is about as
opposed to pacifism and non-violence as anything you can find on the
planet). And just as the most radical leftists in Israel do, he
joins in cheering the worst Arab irredentist groups, like Al Awda,
the Palestine Right of Return Coalition, whose clear cut goal is not
only the complete destruction of a Jewish state, but the
annihilation of the Jews.
…
Arens often speaks at Al Awda conferences as the faithful Jew of the
Jihad, who will help protect the organizers from charges of
anti-Semitism. After all, he is not only a Jew, but the son of
Israel's former Defense Minister!
…
Yes, the spoiled scion of Moshe Arens in his cushy Los Angeles home
is "ever optimistic" that the Palestinians will some day toss the
Jews into the sea. But poor little Yigal - he lacks the courage of
his conviction and prefers the yuppie LA style to going to live
among his beloved Palestinians. They may not turn out to be all so
pacifistic!
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University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe
(Dept of Israel Bashing) gets a pass from his University for using a
source-less quote "proving" ethnic cleansing by David Ben-Gurion
For one brief
shining moment, it looked as if the University of Exeter was going
to hold Ilan Pappé accountable for attributing a fake quote to David
Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister.
Those hopes were
in vain. Not only did the university's Ethics Committee fail to hold
Pappé accountable for his fabrication, the committee accepted an
explanation from the historian that is simply so byzantine and
ludicrous that it raises questions about how seriously officials at
the University of Exeter take the pursuit of truth and respect for
the historical record.
In short, Pappé
dug himself deeper into a hole when he responded to a challenge
about the fake quote, and the Ethics Committee decided to shack up
with the historian in the hole he dug. … [University of Exeter]
Ethics Committee reported its findings to CAMERA in a letter signed
by chair Professor Nicholas Talbot. The upshot of this letter,
detailed below, is that Pappé was given a pass.
… Talbot reports
"there may have been a different version in some of the many
reprints" of Pappé's book.
"If this is the
case," Talbot writes, "the Professor Pappé has assured us that it
will be corrected in the next edition."
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and to see the full original article,
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe
(Dept of Israel Bashing) continues to bash Israel
Where was the
"discussion" in allowing an unchallenged Ilan Pappe to state:
"What do you do
about a rogue state like Israel? How do you treat it? What is the
right policy towards a country, a state, that violates
systematically all the United Nations' resolutions, that violates
systematically and abuses civil and human rights? This is now the
conversation, this is why all these pro-Zionist Jewish communites
are so fidgety, this is why all the Israeli Embassies have nightly
meetings 'what do we do?', not changing Israeli immoral behaviour,
'how do we now justify Israeli immoral behaviour?'"
And in allowing
him to demean what blacks went through in apartheid South Africa
when he said:
"South Africa had
the right to exist. And Israel has the right to exist. Apartheid had
no right to exist. Therefore, we all worked for the change of regime
in South Africa. The kind of regime Israel maintains in the occupied
territories, the kind of regime it maintains towards its Palestinian
minority in Israel and the kind of policies it pursies against
Palestinian refugees has no right to exist. And I think that is what
the (bds) campaign is all about…We are talking about a change of
regime and we don't even suggest bombing the Israelis to change the
regime as we would have if it had been an Arab country."
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe
(Dept of Israel Bashing) – Time Has Come to Recant Outlandish
Accusations
Ilan Pappé rode to
fame by bashing Israel, repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of war
crimes and crying oppression when academics actually looked at his
evidence
and
found it
lacking.
…Ignorance is no excuse for an academic, nor is stubbornness a
virtue. When Benny Morris mistreated quotes by
David Ben-Gurion and
Theodor Herzl, he was rightly pilloried for it. In December
2006, he came clean and acknowledged that the Ben-Gurion quote was
fraudulent. Kudos to him for reversing the error.
Alas, to advance
his polemic, Pappé has
embraced the false Ben-Gurion quote endorsing ethnic cleansing,
an outlandish accusation. Some of those who relied on Pappé have
issued corrections, or are in the process of doing so. Not Pappé,
however. He may believe that tainting Israel with original sin
justifies his lies.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe
(Dept of Israel Bashing) goosesteps for the Jihad again; whines
about being persecuted
Of course there
were US President
Barack
Obama's pandering appearances in front of
AIPAC, the
Israeli lobby, and his administration's continued silence and
inaction in face of Israel's colonization of the West Bank, siege
and killings in Gaza, ethnic cleansing of the
Bedouins in
the Naqab and
new legislation discriminating against
Palestinians in Israel.
The complicity
continued with the shameful retreat of Judge
Richard Goldstone from his rather tame
report
on the Gaza massacre — which began three years ago today. And
then there was the decision of European governments, especially
Greece, to disallow campaigns of human aid and solidarity from
reaching Gaza by sea.
…
In recent years, I
have learned firsthand how intimidation of this kind works. In
November 2009 the mayor of Munich was scared to death by a Zionist
lobby group and cancelled my lecture there. More recently, the
Austrian foreign ministry withdrew its funding for an event in which
I participated, and finally it was my own university, the University
of Exeter, once a haven of security in my eyes, becoming frigid when
a bunch of Zionist hooligans claimed I was a fabricator and a
self-hating Jew.
Every year since I
moved there, Zionist organizations in the UK and the US have asked
the university to investigate my work and were brushed aside. This
year a similar appeal was taken, momentarily one should say,
seriously. One hopes this was just a temporary lapse; but you never
know with an academic institution (bravery is not one of their
hallmarks).
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe's
(Dept of Israel Bashing) own Employer Looking into Pappe's Habit of
Playing "fast and loose" with Facts, demanding an explanation from
Pappe
It looks like Ilan
Pappé will finally have to explain himself for a quote he attributed
to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, in an academic
journal, the Journal of Palestine Studies and in his 2006 book The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Officials at University of Exeter
have asked Pappé to respond to a challenge from CAMERA about the
origin of the quote, for which Pappé has not provided a legitimate
citation. The Journal of Palestine Studies has done the same thing.
…
Pappé reports on page 23 of his book that in 1937 David Ben-Gurion
wrote the following in a letter to his son: "The Arabs will have to
go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as
a war."
…
It is a damning quote, but it's almost certainly a fabrication. In
Dec. 2006, soon after the quote first appeared in print, another
historian, Benny Morris,
declared that the quote was an invention in a letter to The
Independent.
…
Morris' statement that the quote attributed to Ben-Gurion was an
"invention" should have prompted Pappé to either provide an
accurate, verifiable source for the quote or to issue a retraction
to prevent others from using it. Instead, the quote, which lacked a
valid citation, lingered on – without correction or retraction – in
the fever swamp of anti-Zionist commentary.
…
An official from University of Exeter's Ethics Committee has stated
that the matter is currently under review, that the university takes
such concerns "very seriously" and that a report will be
forthcoming.
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University of the Witwatersrand -
Ex-Israeli anti-Israel extremist sociologist Ran Greenstein (Dept of
Sociology) leads the jihad from the Veldt
His revenge for
the fact that Israeli universities refused him a job?
… is Israel merely
one ethnic state among others, as Pogrund argues? Let us ask: which
other state was founded on the massive exclusion of its indigenous
people to clear the way for immigrants, an exclusion forcibly
maintained to this day? In which other state is such exclusion being
buttressed daily by new laws, regulations, speeches, government
policies, parliamentary commissions of enquiry, and educational and
media campaigns? Which other state constantly seeks new ways to
bolster its ethnic nature at the expense of its indigenous people,
and restrict their political, social (and – where possible –
physical) presence? Which other state is a 'demographic state' in a
similar manner? If the label 'apartheid' is not suitable, what
alternative do Goldstone and Pogrund have to offer?
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University of Exterior – Ilan Pappe
testifies that evoking the blood libel is not anti-Semitic
There is no other
interpretation as a matter of history or elementary literacy for
such a statement than the following: Raed Salah was presenting the
blood libel — i.e. the medieval conspiracy theory that Jews bake
bread with the blood of Gentile children — as legitimate.
... [Raed
Salah]'s evidence is supported by that of Professor Ilan Pappe who
although describing the Appellant’s address as at times incoherent
and emotive, said the Appellant did not invoke the blood libel in
this or any other speech, and made a clear distinction between
Jews as a race and the actions of Israeli officials. The words
used by the Appellant on this occasion did not amount to blood
libel because he did not refer to Jewish bread; the message of the
address was not anti-Semitic or even anti-Zionist
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Ilan Pappe continues the battle for
Israel's Annihilation from the University of Exeter
Pappé's premise is
that the Jews had no moral right to assert their case for national
self-determination in Palestine because there were Arabs living
there. For the same reason, the Arabs were justified in rejecting
every compromise offered, including the UN's 1947 partition plan,
because the Jews were "newcomers."
In Pappé's
history, the Jews "expelled" over 700,000 refugees and inexplicably
– never mind the continuing state of war between Israel and the Arab
world – refused to let them return.
Pappé's latest
polemic focuses on those Arabs who heeded Jewish leaders and did not
flee. He finds it galling "that those who stayed became the 'Arab
minority of Israel.'" (He calls them "Palestinian citizens of
Israel," since he abhors the term "Israeli Arabs.")
... Pappé's
loathing of Israel allows for no such complications. Pity the
student assigned his latest book, and shame on any professor for
assigning it.
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I call for boycott
against the State of Israel in order to harm the State of Israel by
means of boycott. If this is not clear enough, I will clarify: I
(Ran Baron, ID number: 036490597) hereby call for any person to
deliberately avoid economic, cultural or academic ties with another
person or another factor only because of his ties with the State of
Israel, one of its institutions or an area under its control, in
such a way that may cause economic, cultural or academic damage.
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University of Exeter - On the
anti-Semitic pro-terror "Counterpunch," Ilan Pappe (Dept of Israel
Bashing) Proclaims that Israel is Not a Democracy, unlike Libya
No, Israel is
definitely not a democracy. A country that occupies another people
for more than 40 years and disallow them the most elementary civic
and human rights cannot be a democracy. A country that pursues a
discriminatory policy against a fifth of its Palestinian citizens
inside the 67 borders cannot be a democracy. In fact Israel is, what
we use to call in political science a herrenvolk democracy, its
democracy only for the masters. The fact that you allow people to
participate in the formal side of democracy, namely to vote or to be
elected, is useless and meaningless if you don't give them any share
in the common good or in the common resources of the State, or if
you discriminate against them despite the fact that you allow them
to participate in the elections. On almost every level from official
legislation through governmental practices, and social and cultural
attitudes, Israel is only a democracy for one group, one ethnic
group, that given the space that Israel now controls, is not even a
majority group anymore, so I think that you'll find it very hard to
use any known definition of democracy which will be applicable for
the Israeli case.
FB: What is your
nationality, Ilan?
IP: I don't have a
clear nationality. I have a citizenship, an Israeli citizenship.
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University of Exeter - Treason du
jour from Ilan Pappe (Dept. of
Political Science), the Lord Haw-Haw of the British Jihad:
The new law, like
the previous others, institutionalize the Apartheid State of Israel
or for short ASOI. ASOI is now one of worst apartheid regimes in the
world. It controls almost all of Palestine (apart from Gaza which it
imprisoned hermetically since 2005). It has, in absolute terms the
highest number of political prisoners (China was reported to have
less then 1000, Iran has few thousands); Israel holds nearly 10,000
of them. It has the largest number of apartheid laws and regulations
than any country in the world and apart from the Arab regimes that
are now collapsing and rogue states such as Miramar and North Korea,
has the longest imposition of emergency laws and regulations that
rob citizens of their most basic human and civil rights. Its
policies against the discriminated native population, now composing
nearly half of the overall population in ASOI, include atrocities
such as barring people from using water sources, from cultivating
their fields, building more houses, from getting to work, schools or
universities and it bans them from commemorating their history and
in particular the 1948 Nakbah.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of Exeter - The Frauds
of Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science)
What higher
distinction can there be than this -- he has been cited, with very
strong approval, by that great maven of Jewish perfidy, Ms. Jennifer
Peto of the University of Toronto.
But Mr. Pappe has
made a mistake that cost him dearly. He has not contented himself,
as have certain others, with being an "activist" against Israel. No,
he has allowed himself the conceit that he still is the historian he
once was, a scholar, and he has masked his current propaganda with
the externalities of scholarship. And once he did this he invited
the scrutiny of scholars, and these have shown little mercy in
proving him a malicious fabricator.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of East London -
Expatriate Israel-hating Haim Bresheeth (Professor of Jew Baiting)
Demands that the Coen Brothers (movie producers) Boycott Israel
Your
much-celebrated presence will adorn a colonial settler state still
vigorously engaged in the business of dispossessing and driving out
the indigenous inhabitants, who are the Palestinians. Of course the
United States itself is built on the bones and demolished
civilizations of its own indigenous inhabitants, but for the
Palestinians the struggle is real and present – an every day battle
to hang on to land, houses, livelihoods, hopes and ambitions.
Your appearance in
Israel will unfortunately help camouflage the brutal realities of a
powerful and illegal military occupation. However much you believe
you can go there simply as artists, your presence will be spun to
reassure the Israeli public that their ruthless colonial society is
'normal', and to promote Brand Israel abroad. You will be saying, to
Israelis and to the world, that Israel's violently racist treatment
of the Palestinians is acceptable.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of Exeter - Professional
Israel Basher Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) Proclaimed
Hero of the Raelian Movement of UFO Chasers
Raelian movement
of UFO hunters has decided to grant its award for "Honorary Guide of
Humanity" to Israeli expatriate anti-Semite Ilan Pappe.
Now I think it is
lovely that Ilan Pappe is at long last getting the recognition that
he so richly deserves for his important scholarly work and
university career. Pappe has built his academic career upon
inventing an imaginary massacre at Tantora, out of fabricating the
tale that Israel carried out "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs, and out of
serving as Israel's Lord Haw-Haw in regard to everything else. Now,
evidently, he has decided that the planet earth is just not large
enough for "the Guide of Humanity's" ego and so Pappe is taking his
campaign against the Joos to the stars.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of the Witwatersrand
(once the bastion of Afrikaaner racism) - Ran Greenstein (Department
of Sociology), Anti-Israel ex-Israeli sociologist, discovers some
apartheid, and it is NOT in South Africa!! [Revenge for Ran's
inability to get an academic job in Israel?]
In the last
decade, the notion that the Israeli system of political and military
control bears strong resemblance to the apartheid system in South
Africa has gained ground. It is invoked regularly by movements and
activists opposed to the 1967 occupation and to other aspects of
Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian- Arab people. It is
denounced regularly by official Israeli spokespersons and unofficial
apologists. ...
The right of return is vested in individuals and they are the only
ones who can negotiate on their own behalf.
It is this issue,
above all, that makes the Israeli apartheid of a special type
different from historical South African apartheid, and more
difficult to overcome. As a result, Palestinians have been deprived
of the key weapon of struggle used by black South Africans: their
strategic location in the economy and their ability to strike and
disrupt the daily lives of white citizens, as a crucial political
lever. Due to the historical trajectory of excluding indigenous
people in Israel/Palestine, compared to their incorporation in a
subordinate role in South Africa, they operate largely outside the
boundaries of the Israeli-dominated economic system.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
UCLA - Yael Korin leads a list of
"Proud to be Ashamed to be Jews"
More recently, some American Jews (Noam
Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Hedy Epstein, and
Yael Korin), joined Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nobel Prize winner
Mairead (Corrigin) Maguire and signed a
California-based petition to boycott companies which do business
with Israel; interestingly, Finkelstein, Epstein and Korin are
children of Holocaust survivors. That's a theme unto itself but for
another day.
Some American and Israeli-born Jews
also joined the ongoing international
campaign to boycott Israeli academics—yes, even Israel's
politically correct left-wing academics. There are, so far, more
than 700 signatories, including Bill Ayers, Mona Baker, Hamid
Dabashi, Barbara Ehrenreich (no, she's not Jewish), Charlotte Kates,
and Joseph Massad. Some of the Jewish signatories are: Anna Baltzer,
Judith Butler, Marilyn Hacker, Yael Korin (again), Ilan Pappe,
Adrienne Rich (who is half-Jewish), Sarah Schulman, Adam Shapiro,
and Ella Shohat.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of East London - Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of Cultural
Studies) supports Palestinian Right of Return, but Opposes one for
Jews
As a result, the
Palestinian people now live either under Israeli rule or in exile.
Those in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 (many of them
refugees from areas occupied in 1948) live under continuing harsh
military rule; those in the territories occupied in 1948 are
second-class residents in a Jewish state, denied the rights and
privileges accorded to those residents recognised by the state as
Jews.
On 9 December
1987, the Palestinian people living under Israeli military
occupation rose up against their oppressors. On 15 November 1988,
the Palestine National Council declared the establishment of the
independent state of Palestine. Two years on, the Intifada
continues. it is now manifestly clear to everyone that the Israeli
military occupation must end, and that the PLO is the sole
legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Any pretence to
the contrary is an obvious lie.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe
(Dept. of Political Science) continues to Jihad Along
"Language
transformation" is key to the BDS strategy, Pappé revealed. He told
a packed house at Rothko Chapel to "throw [out] the old dictionary"
and "introduce a new dictionary."
"This is an
anti-colonialist movement," Pappé said of BDS, urging his Houston
audience to use language to equate the current "Palestinian
struggle" against Israel with the former struggle against apartheid
South Africa.
Calling Israel an
apartheid state is a "valid definition," Pappé said.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
Oxford - On the Anti-Semitic,
Pro-Jihad, web magazine Counterpunch, Avi Shlaim (Dept of
International Relations) calls for the US to end Israeli Sovereignty
and Independence, force it to capitulate to Arab demands
In plain language,
this means leaning on Israel to end the occupation and to permit the
emergence of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip.
In theory America
is committed to a two-state solution to the conflict but in practise
it has done very little to push Israel into such a settlement. It is
not that America lacks the means to bring pressure to bear on
Israel. On the contrary, Israel is crucially, and almost
exclusively, dependent on America for military, diplomatic, and
financial support.
America's
financial support amounts to three billion dollars a year. So the
leverage is there.
…
The American
position is pusillanimous and feeble. Instead of taking a firm
position on the side of the Palestinians and pressing the point of
principle, they press the weaker party to make more and more
concessions. Under these conditions, the prospects of a peace deal
between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are close to zero.
There is no light
at the end of the tunnel, only more illegal settlements, and
consequently more strife, more violence, more bloodshed, and
ultimately another war.
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
Exported Treason: University of
London - Moshe Machover dismisses Israeli peace activists; "Real"
socialists "Fight against the Zionist Project"
"This biased
viewpoint is inconsistent with internationalism. So Israeli
self-proclaimed peace activists cannot be genuine socialists.
Israeli socialists, whether Hebrew or Arab, fight against the
Zionist project and its practices: colonisation, dispossession,
discrimination; and for equal rights and universal liberation.
Peace will be an
outcome of liberation, not its starting point."
For more details
and to see the full original article,
go here
University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe
(Dept. of Political Science) Demanding that India end all Ties with
Israel
An Arab MK and a
Jewish Israeli professor were among those in India last week for a
conference that aimed to put an end to Israel-India ties. MK Jamal
Zahalka (Balad), professor Ilan Pappe, and Palestinian Authority
official Mustafa Barghouti traveled to New Delhi to speak in favor
of boycotting Israel. ...
Ilan Pappe, known
radical leftist and one of the few Israeli professors to support an
academic boycott of Israel, focused on the flotilla incident, which
he said "exposed Israel for who and what they are [sic]." He
criticized the Arab world for "not doing anything" against Israel.
Both Pappe and
Zahalka were critical of Israel's ongoing talks with the Palestinian
Authority, saying the talks are unlikely to succeed since they do
not include Hamas, which governs Gaza.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Ben Gurion University - Ran
Greenstein (University of the Witwatersrand) signs name to a
blatantly Anti-Semitic petition to have Johannesburg U cut ties with
BGU; Criticism of Neve Gordon's treasonous call for boycott cited as
reason enough to boycott BGU
What goes around
comes around. South African University threatened to boycott Ben
Gurion University. Its hordes of tenured treason did not spare it
from accusations of engaging in "apartheid" made by South African
anti-Semites!
"Written in part
by Omar Barghouti:
A true
breakthrough in the academic boycott of Israel!!
A South African,
long brewing, campaign at the prestigious University of Johannesburg
to cut off academic links with Ben Gurion University due to its
complicity and racist practices has won the endorsement of John
Dugard, Desmond Tutu, Breyten Breytenbach, Allan Boesak, Mahmoud
Mamdani and almost 200 other academics from 22 academic institutions
in SA.
Here is the
petition to sever links with Ben Gurion University
SOUTH AFRICAN
ACADEMICS CALL FOR UJ TO TERMINATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAELI
INSTITUTION
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/boycott-of-apartheid-gets-a%5C-boost-from-south-african-academics/
…
3. CRIMINALISING
DISSENT
…
• BGU has been publicly criticised for disciplining academic staff,
such as Professor Neve Gordon, the head of the politics department,
for supporting the non-violent boycott of Israeli companies and
institutions which profit or are complicit in the Israeli
occupation."
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center - Dr. Naftali Kaminski Organizes Bash-Israel Events;
Encourages Israeli Academics to Bully-Pulpit in the Classroom
Kaminski
has also signed petitions encouraging
refusal to serve in the IDF in Israel's defense. One petition in
particular stands out because it calls
on Israeli academics to use their positions and classrooms to
deter their students from serving in the IDF.
...
Kaminski
did an
interview on Pittsburgh Indymedia, an anti-Semitic "anarchist"
web site. … In discussing the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza,
Kaminski said, "So you have the whole Erez crossing which used to be
full with lots of workers going into Israel and goods for Gaza not
operating. Part of this is a security concern… but it is basically
"…the Siege" according to Kaminski. So in the mind of the learned
doctor, not only do Palestinians have some sort of entitlement to
work in Israel, but that entitlement counts for MORE than and trumps
the right of Israeli Jews to remain breathing, not to be murdered by
suicide bombers!
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Duke University – Math
Instructor Rann Barr-On cheers on Terrorist Atrocities against Jews
Barr-On openly
embraces the violent revolutionary ideas of the PFLP and ISM and
even encourages violence against those he would perceive as being
“Jewish” Israelis.
Asked during the
Duke Palsolidarity conference he helped host by a local news
reporter if he repudiated terrorism against Jews, he replied: “We
don't see it as very useful for us as a solidarity movement to
condemn violence. That will not achieve any particular goal."
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Washington:
Booking lies - Library Science Professor Raya Fidel Struggles
against Israel’s Existence
Fidel likes to remind everyone that she
is Jewish when she bellows against Israel. She would not want anyone
to get the wrong idea. She loves to posture her “Jewish outrage
[that] continues to mount over Israeli horrors.” She had the gall to
list herself as a “Jerusalem professor” when she signed
a petition along with other anti-Israel academics accusing
Israel of “contemplating crimes against humanity” at the outset of
the US-Iraq War, an article that rumor mongered that Israel was
planning to transfer the Palestinian population from the West Bank
using the war as a diversion. She was still at the University of
Washington at the time, not a “Jerusalem professor.”
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Queen’s University, Belfast
(formerly of University of New South Wales) Ephraim Nimni has his
“Post-Zionist” head stuck down under
Nimni is an
interesting bird; an Argentine Jewish transplant to Australia by way
of Israel, and later an occupier of Belfast. He sees nothing wrong
with his moving to a land stolen from the indigenous aborigines,
supplanted by a white felon population. At the same time, he
denounces Israel for existing on land that he thinks should be
handed over to the Arabs. In the past, he made the incredible
assertion that “the PLO's pragmatism and willingness to compromise
were in sharp contrast to the ‘extremist intransigence’ of the
Israeli government." And now he occupies the poor hapless North
Irish.
…
Nimni has even claimed that Herr Ahmadinejad in Iran is not
anti-Semitic (and if Nimni does not think HE is, then surely he can
find no one else on earth who is either!). Here’s how he excuses the
Iranian thug’s anti-Semitism, written on Haifa University’s Alef
chat for Neo-Nazis and anti-Semites… We love Nimni’s invocation of
Said’s theory that Europeans are incapable of understanding the
Middle East, except how come he thinks he is exempt?
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg
(Dept. of History) smears Israel on the International Lecture
Circuit
[Turkey's not
anti-Semitic enough these days. While in Istanbul, Piterberg was
quoted by the Hürriyet Daily news as 'referring to the conflict as
the "colonization of Palestine" during a lecture in Istanbul on
Saturday.']
On the
colonization of Palestine, Piterberg connected the history of the
settlement with the colonization of other countries such as the U.S.
and South Africa. He drew comparisons between the ways both
countries sought to collect massive amounts of land and dispel the
natives, and he detailed the problems that persisted in each.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
New York University – Alon
Ben-Meir (Dept of International Relations) should just buy the
Brooklyn Bridge
Here’s another
Ben-Meir gem of a quote:
“As the Gaza war
has amply demonstrated, even Israel's colossal military power as
compared to Hamas' has its limitations as Hamas is deeply embedded
in the civilian community. They have become part of the Palestinian
social fabric, especially in Gaza, and have shown tremendous
capacity for clean governance and realism.”
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Exeter - lan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science),
the anti-Israel New Historian, proclaims Israel Mentally Ill
It would be wrong, however, to assume that
American support and a feeble European response to Israeli criminal
policies such as one pursued in Gaza are the main reasons for the
protracted blockade and strangulation of Gaza. What is probably most
difficult to explain to readers around the world is how deeply these
perceptions and attitudes are grounded in the Israeli psyche and
mentality. And it is indeed difficult to comprehend how
diametrically opposed are the common reactions in the UK, for
instance, to such events to the emotions that it triggers inside the
Israeli Jewish society.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of East London - Haim Bresheeth
(Dept. of Cultural Studies) continues to Lead the London Intifada
against Israel's Existence
In Israel, as well
as abroad, the full lunacy and vileness of this latest Israeli war
crime is becoming clear to all who can read. ... Israelis are
living in a parallel universe, where normal legalities do not exist,
and morality is absent, where racism and apartheid are still ruling
the day. The change will come from us, from the enraged and caring
millions, angry with the duplicity of their own governments and
their collusion with Israeli crimes; the international community is
now realising it is up to all of us to do what many did during the
apartheid days – to isolate and ostracise and isolate this pariah
military and piratical regime, this State of Lunacy and
lawlessness.... The way to achieve this is by the careful and
thoughtful but total BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, that
will lead to a Just peace and a stable and long-lasting political
order in Palestine. Anything else will just lead to more murder
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
New York University -
History and Middle East Studies Professor Zvi Ben-Dor Benite helps
invent the Jewish Arab
If only Ben-Dor
Benite would be as indignant about defamations of the Jews. He is
one of those Israeli professors of Sephardic-Oriental lineage who
likes to claim he’s really an “Arab Jew.” The “Arab” part of him
likes to promote the Arab pseudo-historical “narrative” against
Israel and Zionism. From the isle of Manhattan, Ben-Dor Beniste
castigates Israeli society for its so-called bias against Jews from
the Middle East and against their “racist oppression” by the
European or Ashkenazi Jews.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of East London - Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of Cultural
Studies) leading campaign to force Elton John to boycott Israel
Does it mean you think the
dirty business of Israeli colonialism and ethnic cleansing has
nothing to do with you? That you can play for the officers and
conscripts and secret service people who will make up much of your
audience in Tel Aviv without giving them the stamp of your approval?
You will offer them a few hours’ respite from administering beatings
and torture and land-theft and house demolition and sieges and
destroying wells and denying sick people access to hospital – and
the simple fact of your presence will tell them that all this cruel
business, which they conduct daily, is okay with you.
…
Yours sincerely,
Professor Haim Bresheeth
Mike Cushman
Professor Steven Rose
Professor Jonathan Rosenhead
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Concordia
University – Meir Amor (Dept of Sociology) divests Anti-Israelism
from Anti-Semitism and creates a new nationality for the Arab
refugees
“There is no way we can avoid the existence of
Palestinians. It is of no significance if we accept the political
leadership or not. They are a nation with different interests from
other Arabs. When I served in Lebanon. I saw Lebanese and Syrian
murder Palestinians. We have to face it; Palestinians are not Arabs,
as Jews are not Israelis.”
Amor just got two F's in sociology for THAT
quote!
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Geneva - Linguistics Professor Ur Shlonsky speaks with a forked
tongue
Shlonsky,
however, is a particularly virulent foe of the Jewish state from his
bailiwick in Switzerland, for he not only wants to see Israel in
general boycotted, but
also all Israeli universities and their academic staff. His
writings and comments promoting “divestment” are so malicious that
they appear in all manner of pro-Palestinian propaganda websites,
including
Palestine with Provenance, an Irish pro-terror web site,
as well as
this ISM website fronting for Arabs in the UK. He has spoken in
favor of boycotting Israel at a Michigan college.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
UC Berkeley -
Professor Chana Kronfeld (Dept of Near Eastern Studies) battles
Zionism, promotes Israel army deserters on campus
'Yet she
continually presents the image of tiny Israel as being the bully
against 250 million Arabs, with the IDF playing no role of
protecting the Israeli people. The Israeli army just murders Arab
children for sport.
Not
satisfied with such forums, Kronfeld also endorses Israeli
accomplice with terrorism Tali Fahima, Israel's Taliban-Jane who did
a long jail sentence, who helped smuggle weapons for her terrorist
Arab boyfriend to kill her her fellow Israelis.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Trinity College
(Ireland) - Ronit Lentin (Dept of Sociology) leads Anti-Israel
academic extremists from the UK (including Pappe and Shlaim) and
elsewhere in order to "defend" anti-Israel lecturer/propagandist at
BGU Ahmad Sa'di (Dept of Politics) from make-pretend "persecution"
We,
Israeli, Palestinian and British academics, are writing to express
our deep concern at the treatment of Dr Ahmad Sa’di, a Senior
Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Politics and
Government, who was subjected to racist treatment on 3 January 2010
when he arrived at Ben-Gurion University train station, as he does
every teaching week. He was humiliatingly searched, yelled at and
embarrassed by the security staff at Mexico Gate, which we find
offensive and unacceptable. … Dr Sa’di strongly believes that his
treatment at Mexico Gate on 3 January was only the last in a whole
series of racist encounters and harassment he has faced in the past
ten years of his employment at Ben-Gurion University. Other
incidents included his car being stopped, his bags searched and
security staff making calls to ascertain whether he should be
allowed to enter the university.
Signed
by
Professor Avi Shlaim, Oxford University, UK
Professor Nur Masalha, St Mary’s University College, UK
Dr Ronit Lentin, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK
Professor Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA, US
Professor Ilan Pappe, Exeter University, UK
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Mistress of the
Oxymoron: New York University: Professor Ella Shabiba Shohat invents
the “Arab-Jew”
"If
Shohat would have her way, no pesky “binarisms” would be around any
longer to disturb the peace of the Middle East, because Israel would
be annihilated and its population exterminated."
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Montreal - History Professor Yakov Rabkin joins Neturei Karta in
seeking Israel’s Destruction
Yacov
Rabkin has close ties with Neturei Karta (NK) and promotes the same
agenda as do they. Rabkin does not adopt the Neturei Karta’s 16th
century fashion statement. He travels around the world on
anti-Israel speaking tours, in close coordination with his Neturei
Karta buddies. The NK’s
feature Rabkin’s new
anti-Israel book on their web site and even sell it there, in
five different langauges. … Like some other anti-Zionist Jews,
Rabkin claims that he just wants Israel to “evolve from a state for
the Jews – a major source of the Israel/Palestine conflict – to an
inclusive state of all its citizens.” He does not insist that France
stop being a state for the French or the British a state for the
British or explain why the Palestinian Authority cannot be a state
for all its citizens also—instead only for Arabs and Muslims. …
Rabkin claims that
anti-Semitism is something the “Zionists” want, as it helps them
to justify a Jewish state. Elsewhere Rabkin has stated that when
Neturei Karta meet with Ahmadinejhad to voice support for him and
his regime against Israel, “There
is no indication that these activities enhance anti-Jewish sentiment”
in the Muslim world. Perish the thought.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of Exeter – Ilan Pappe's
(Dept. of Political Science) book gets reviewed as “worthless”
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli
academic who has made his name by hating Israel and everything it
stands for. In his view, expressed with obsession and a degree of
paranoia, Jewish nationalism, that is to say Zionism, has been from
its outset a deliberate tool for dispossessing the Palestinians; and
therefore it is to be condemned root and branch. He reserves the
Palestinian term of Nakba, meaning catastrophe, for describing what
to Israelis is their war of independence of 1948. To him, Israeli
politicians and soldiers, one and all, are so many murderers.
Forests have been planted only to cover up the past. Houses are
‘monstrous villas and palaces for rich American Jews’. Everything
Israeli is ugly, everything Palestinian is beautiful. One day, he
supposes, the Israelis may well consummate their original crime with
something even worse. The only possible alternative lies in the
immediate return of every Palestinian to his original home, and that
will mean the end of the state whose existence so offends Pappe.
This, of course, is exactly the inflexible position taken by Hamas
and the PLO. … As history, the book is worthless. In interviews
Pappe regularly explains: ‘We do [historiography] because of
ideological reasons, not because we are truth seekers.’ For him, as
a Marxist and anti-nationalist, ‘there is no such thing as truth,
only a collection of narratives’. To substantiate his particular
ideological narrative, Pappe puts the worst possible interpretation
on any Jewish deed or word, while validating anything said or done
by Palestinians.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Suffolk
University - Israeli Professor Nir Eisikovits (Dept of Philosophy)
is Enamored with the Enemies of Israel
Sympathizing with Israel’s
enemies is exactly what Eisikovits does from the safety of the US
and Boston. But, instead of reconciliation, his “sympathy” grants
aid and comfort to Israel’s enemies and to radical anti-Zionists. He
has written in an article he wrote in the Christian Science Monitor:
“Our (Israel’s) basic constitutional documents speak of a ‘Jewish
democratic state’ while about 20 percent of our citizens are
non-Jews. We have no separation of synagogue and state. We have, for
over 40 years, maintained illegal settlements and a harsh military
occupation in most of the Palestinian territories captured in 1967.”
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
University of
Exeter – Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) calls for
International boycott of Israel and the end of the Jewish State of
Israel but yet claims "I'm not a traitor"
"I believe that things
would change only if Israel receives a strong message that as long
as the occupation continues it would not be a legitimate member of
the international community, and that until then its academics,
doctors and authors would not be welcome. A similar boycott was
imposed on South Africa. It took 21 years, but it eventually led to
the end of Apartheid." … As the son of German Jews, I know how
important it is for our elites to be a part of Europe. … "Once we
realize that the only way is to relinquish some of out holy ideas,
and once the Palestinians give up the idea of nationalism, and once
they realize that there needs to be one state here that isn't Jewish
nor Palestinian, but a state of all its citizens, like in the US, we
will have peace."
[Another interesting
tidbit, when Pappe is asked if he'd willingly vacate when the 1948
refugees resettle the area surrounding his home, he ignores the
question. I guess this is a classic case of the Israeli "it won't
happen to me" (ìé æä ìà é÷øä) syndrome. The reporter lets him off
the hook, which leads to believe that the reporter is either a
novice or shares Pappe's views.]
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Oxford - Avi
Shlaim presents a hodgepodge of dis-information as irrefutable fact
and comes to the conclusion that Israel is responsible for the 1948
war refugee problem
The "old" historians saw
the 1948 war as an unequal struggle between a Jewish David against
an Arab Goliath: a desperate, heroic, and ultimately successful
Jewish struggle against overwhelming odds. The heroism of the Jewish
fighters is not in question. Nor is there any question that the
first round of fighting was indeed a struggle for survival. … The
final
outcome of the war was not a miracle but a reflection of the
underlying Arab-Israeli military balance. In this war, as in most
wars, the stronger side won. ... The entire debate between the old
and the new Israeli historians revolves round the question of moral
responsibility for the consequences of the first Arab-Israeli war.
The old historians present Israel as the innocent party, as the
victim of Arab aggression. But the evidence presented by the new
historians makes it patently clear that the establishment of Israel
involved a monumental
injustice
to the Palestinians. ... Unless and until Israel acknowledges its
share of the moral responsibility for the creation of the
Palestinian refugee problem, this dispute cannot be solved.
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University of
Utrecht, Netherlands: Former Technion Linguistics/Computer Professor
Yoad Winter denounces Israeli “terrorism”
Yoad Winter is a
Linguistics and Mathematics expert who works with computers,
formerly from the
Technion in Israel,
now employed as an academic lecturer at the University of Utrecht in
the Netherlands. … Yoad Winter belongs to a growing crowd of
anti-Israel Israelis living outside Israel, and is part of a group
called
Gate48 in Amsterdam.
During the war in Gaza he and his fellow Israeli academics and
fellow travelers in Gate48 wrote the following to the Dutch
government:
“We, a group of Israelis living
in the Netherlands, call on you to publicly disapprove of the brutal
military operation claiming the life of Palestinian civilians in
Gaza. … Since the beginning of this operation approximately 700
people, among them more than 200 children were killed. 700,000
Palestinians are living without water and nearly a million without
electricity. Israel blocks the delivery of sufficient humanitarian
aid, which has resulted in starvation, and a lack of proper medical
assistance. We cannot find any justification for such war crimes
against civilians.”
The bulk of the “700
people killed” (ultimately 1,300 claimed by the UN by war’s end)
were proven to have been armed terrorists from Hamas and Islamic
Jihad, who used the civilian population (including children)
on many occasions as human shields. In addition, obviously
700,000 Arabs were not living without water, nor one million without
electricity. Israel did not block delivery of humanitarian aid and
the population in Gaza is and never has been starving. Those are the
inventions of the International Solidarity Movement, a Hamas-supporting
movement, and similar outfits, which consistently try to get the
West to believe that Gaza is “under siege” because Israel controls
the borders to stop weapons smuggling from Iran and Syria. The ISM
has a strong presence in the Netherlands.
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Queen’s
University, Canada - Wannabe filmmaker and pseudo-academic Dorit
Na’aman attacks Israel again
When we first
exposed Dorit Na’aman here at Isracampus for her activities as a
professor in Canada working to aid those out to destroy the Jewish
state, Ms. Na’aman became so upset she began a campaign to get
Google to block its search engine from displaying the article in
Israel and Canada. Obviously, the truth hurts. … Dorit Na’aman’s
“art” in her field is her promotion of her political agenda against
the Jewish state and western-style democracy. That “art” always
sells on the college market circuit and among groups like the
International Solidarity
Movement. … One thing is for certain: Dorit Na’aman is among the
worst of the worst of Israeli academics abroad who will gladly work
to destroy the Jewish state while claiming to speak for it as
another Israeli Jew.
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Tufts University,
Boston – Nadim Rouhana (Dept of International Affairs) questions the
legitimacy of the establishment of the State of Israel through the
front of the Mada Al-Carmel - Arab Center for Applied Social
Research - in Haifa
It seems that the
impact of what befell Palestinian society in 1948 caused by the
establishment of Israel -- the Nakba, starting with the loss of
their homeland, the dismantling of their society, the ethnic
cleansing of the majority of Palestinians from historic Palestine,
and the prolonged and frustrating struggle against all odds for
freedom, equality, and return -- is weighing increasingly on all
parts of the Palestinian people. The depth of the catastrophe is
dawning on new generations of Palestinians who compare their present
conditions with what could they and their homeland have become if
not for the Zionist project violently implemented in their homeland.
While this is true of many Palestinians, it might be particularly
true of the Palestinians in Israel, perhaps because of the return of
repressed awareness that their homeland was both claimed and
forcefully taken by another group who, in increasingly Kafkaesque
ways seek to force them to accept the legitimacy of the takeover.
This truth is evidenced by the annual increase in the number of
cultural and political events to commemorating the Nakba. It is also
made clear by the increasing awareness of the magnitude of the
disaster and its continued manifestations in cultural and political
discourses.
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UCLA – StandWithUs.Com provides information about Gabriel
Piterberg’s “dishonest tactics”
Piterberg distorts facts to excoriate Zionism and delegitimize
Israel, and when he concedes some facts, he gives them a sinister
interpretation or, through fancy intellectual footwork, twists them
to set up an artificial and inaccurate picture of Zionism and
Israel
that he can then attack. For example, he admits that Zionists knew
Arabs lived in the Jewish homeland, but nonetheless claims “Zionist
ideology defined the land as empty” because it lacked “Jewish
sovereignty.”[1]
Using similarly dishonest tactics, Piterberg
claims that from its inception, Zionism was nothing more than a
campaign to ethnically cleanse indigenous people (the “subalterns”)
and justified its actions through “its foundational myths.” He
attacks these myths, denying that there was continuity between the
Jews of the “ancient past” and modern Jews, and he argues that the
idea of re-establishing the Jewish state was largely due to Romantic
nationalism of the late 19th century, not due to the
2,000 year old history of Jewish dreams of return.
[2]
He even attacks Zionism for dismissing the successes of Jewish life
during their millennia of exile. The history of persecution of Jews
does not enter his narrative, nor does he accord it any role in the
development of modern Zionism. He also accuses
Israel
of exploiting the Holocaust to justify its actions.
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University of
Exeter - Ilan Pappe exports his Hatred and Lies from the Moor
“Indeed the
struggle is about ideology, not about facts. Who knows what facts
are? We try to convince as many people as we can that our
interpretation of the facts is the correct one, and we do it because
of ideological reasons, not because we are truth-seekers.” (A
wonderful philosophy for an “academic” and “educator” rephrasing the
propaganda policy of Edward Said and Yasser Arafat that “facts don’t
matter, only emotions (opinions) matter. Write your own history.”
The Arab ideology is based on totalitarian ideals and Sharia Law.
Apparently Pappe sees nothing wrong to condemn people to live under
such ideology).
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UC Berkeley -
Lecturer in Hebrew Rutie Adler spends her days on campus urging
boycott of and divestment from Israel
Her name is on the
first boycott and divestment petition against Israel ever created on
a college campus in the US (number
45 there). The idea of creating a divestment-from-Israel program
on US campuses to break Israel financially, help Arab terrorism, and
curry dislike among Americans was actually the brainchild of a law
professor at the University of Illinois named Francis Boyle. But
Rutie Adler, who teaches Hebrew as part of the UC Berkeley’s Near
Eastern Studies Department, part of the Center for Middle East
Studies (CMES), was determined to help fire the first salvo against
Israel in the campaign. … Rutie Adler’s name even made it to the
neo-Nazi
Stormfront website because of her adamant support for anything
against the Jewish state. She signed a petition that the US should
not send foreign aid to Israel when Ariel Sharon went into the West
Bank to clean out the terror cells that were routinely sending
suicide bombers into Israel and blowing up buses, schools and cafes
almost weekly. … Ignoring the spate of suicide bombings in Israel at
the time in the petition is very telling. … Of course, one could
also speak out about what is going on in Darfur or the denial of
human rights in Arab countries, even the Palestinian Authority, but
Adler never finds time to address anything except Israel’s alleged
abuse of Palestinian Arabs.
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Queen’s
University, Canada - Dorit Naaman calls Israel apartheid and quotes
Jimmy Carter’s Saudi petro-dollar funded book to back it up;
endorses Arab anti-Israel sentiment and tries to detach from
anti-Semitism
While these facts
are well known to most Israelis, when Jimmy Carter published his
book in 2006 naming it Apartheid, North Americans were appalled, and
the Jewish institutions up in arms to defend Israel. Since then
Israel has started two vicious wars (Lebanon, 2006, and Gaza 2009)
in which thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were
targeted, opening Israel to criticism by the international
community. I have sadly come to the conclusion that the state of
Israel does not serve even the interests of its own citizens …
Furthermore, while much anti-Israel sentiment has been expressed in
the Arab world, none of it can fall under the rubric of old European
anti-Semitism, or its milder North American version.
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University of the Witwatersrand
(once the bastion of Afrikaaner racism) - Ran Greenstein (Department
of Sociology), Anti-Israel ex-Israeli sociologist, defames Israeli
military heroes; organizes attempt at boycott in South Africa
1) ACCUSED
INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMINAL SPEAKS ON CAMPUS
David Benjamin was the prime legal advisor to the Israeli Defense
Force (IDF) and served in the Military Advocates Corps, which
approved all of the military details regarding Israel's December
2008 attack on Gaza. He authorized the use of white phosphorus which
illegally targeted civilian population, and is directly implicated
in the deaths of 1 400 Palestinians during the attacks. ... We
cannot allow our University to maintain this impression and we
demand that a formal statement be released from the
Vice-Chancellor's Office that states in clear terms that the
University of the Witwatersrand formally dissociates itself from
David Benjamin as an accused war criminal.
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University of Exeter – Uri Davis, the “Palestinian Hebrew” and
convert to Islam, is the first Jewish nomination for the Fatah
Revolutionary Council
Dr. Uri Davis told
Ma'an that one of Fatah's weakest attributes has been its failure to
establish ties with international parties, movements and human
rights organizations, and promised to step up efforts, if elected.
Born to Jewish parents in Jerusalem, Davis describes himself as a
Palestinian Hebrew. Davis has written a series of books and articles
that classify the State of Israel as an apartheid state, alleging
that Israel's policies towards Palestinians, including Palestinian
citizens of Israel, are comparable to South Africa's apartheid
policies.
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New York University - Alon Ben-Meir
(Dept. of Global Affairs) wants Israel to Ally itself with Arab
Fascists to Deter Iran
The Obama
administration's push for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace may
have a strong likelihood of succeeding because of the prevailing
political and security dynamics. For an agreement to occur, however,
Israel must concede the inevitable by relinquishing territories
captured in the 1967 war, and the US must provide a new security
umbrella. This would lead not only to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli
peace, but could seriously impede Iran's ambitions for regional
hegemony using nuclear weapons. … But the scores of countries
affected by the turmoil in the Middle East are fed up with a
conflict they believe can be resolved by ending the occupation. From
their perspective, linking territory to national security no longer
holds the weight it used to, not only because of Israel's
technological superiority, but because the Arab world has come full
circle to accept Israel's existence. If Israel were to forfeit this
opportunity, it will be blamed for many of the regional ills as well
as the growing rift with the US. … This prospect offers what most
Israelis yearn for - peace with security. Any government that
refuses to see this will have forfeited its mandate to govern, and
should give way to a new government capable of delivering peace.
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University of
Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) revels in the
selling of “the Big Lie”; presents the actions of a few outspoken
activists as wide-spread support
The reality today
in 2009 is described by the UN as "a human catastrophe." The
conscious and conscientious sections of British society know very
well who caused and who produced this catastrophe. This is not
related any more to elusive circumstances, or to the "conflict" --
it is seen clearly as the outcome of Israeli policies throughout the
years. When Archbishop Desmond Tutu was asked for his reaction to
what he saw in the occupied territories, he noted sadly that it was
worse than apartheid. … Most of us in the UK have moved far away
from this propagandist silliness and are ready for change. We are
now waiting for the government of these isles to follow suit.
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University of
Southampton – Oren Ben-Dor’s War against Israel's Existence
For Ben-Dor,
though, the alleged apartheid is not something Israel could ever
correct, since “the notion of Jewish statehood necessitates
apartheid.” His article “challenges” the “presumption” that “it is
morally acceptable to have a state whose legal structures assign
preferential stake to all those who pass some test of Jewishness.” …
“That which preserves these self-destructive forces ensures that the
eternal victims’ apartheid nationalistic project will be a fleeting
phenomenon…. Despite its military might, Israel is a weak and dying
state that desires to destroy itself….” In that, at least, the
perturbed Dr. Ben-Dor takes consolation. … Without claiming any
expertise in the subject, let me venture a psychological hypothesis:
Oren Ben-Dor is a very sick man. An obsessive hatred for a country
especially the one he grew up in and longing to see it destroyed
cannot bespeak psychological health. Be that as it may, his words
are poison and he is a deadly enemy of all those, Israelis and
friends of Israel, who want the Jewish state to survive.
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London’s Anti-Israel Israeli
Academics
London is a
fulcrum of anti-Israeli agitation, whether it’s boycott movements,
rowdy joint demonstrations by Islamic radicals and leftists united
by their hatred for the Jewish state, or a harshly anti-Israeli
media culture. Unfortunately, London is also where some anti-Israeli
Israeli academics have gone to ply their trade and lend their
imprimatur to the malevolence. ... Does it matter what these
crackpots say, write, and do? Unfortunately, it does. As token but
conspicuous Israeli and Jews who have themselves “seen the light”
and spread lies and incitement against their native society, they
reinforce the malicious, poison the ignorant, and augment the
well-documented anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic tide in Europe and
other places. Know who they are and beware.
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Ephraim Nimmi teaches
Marxism in Australia at the University of New South Wales
(ex-Israeli) writes on the anti-Semitic ALEF list on May 12, 2009:
But to accuse
Ahmadinejad of anti-Semitism is to fall into the inverted mirror
image of Ahmadinejad third worldism, a deep Eurocentrism that only
knows to judge the world in terms of European categories and remains
blissfully ignorant of non European circumstances, logics or
categories of thought. In this regard, Brian Klug appears to exhibit
the Orientalist thinking so eloquently denounced by Edward Said.
Apart from ignoring that the largest Jewish community in the Middle
East outside Israel lives voluntarily under Ahmadinejad’s
sovereignty, Klug appears to ignore that Ahmadinejad’s extreme
language is addressed to Israel and not to Jews. His Holocaust
conference was an act of crass ignorance, not anti-Semitism. He
falls neatly into the category that Joseph Massad calls Zionist
Muslims, and he is an embarrassment to those who support the
Palestinian cause. These "Zionist Muslims" deny the Holocaust
because they subscribe to the Zionist logic that the Holocaust is
the justification for Israel, so they believe that if they deny the
Holocaust they will be denying Israel. This is a statement of crass
ignorant Third Worldism but not of (western) Anti-Semitism. Instead
of fighting Zionism, Ahmadinejad and his mates end up justifying a
Zionist claim. And Brian Klug, in spite of his early perceptive
differentiations between criticisms of Israel and anti-Semitism,
joins the ranks of the Orientalists and those who use accusations of
anti-Semitism to deflect criticisms of Israel.
Ephraim
University of East London
- Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of Cultural Studies) ignores war crimes
committed by the “democratically” elected governing body in Gaza
before and during Operation “Cast Lead”; calls upon Leonard Cohen to
join the boycott of Israel
If we understand
anything about Buddhism – your practice of which is public knowledge
– it’s that Buddhism advocates ‘right action’. We accept that this
precept, like the injunction to ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’, is
probably honoured more in the breach than the observance. But we
can’t believe you didn’t weigh up performing in Israel in the light
of ‘right action’. And apparently you’ve decided that it’s right to
take your unavoidably starry and very newsworthy presence there.
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University of Ottawa -
Denis Rancourt - Tenured pseudo-academic crackpot propagandist
fired. Why not in Israel?
Denis Rancourt was
fired recently from the University of Ottawa in physics. He had
tenure. He describes himself as an "anarchist" and a "true
communist," whatever that is. He would rant at length in his classes
against the "Zionist Lobby" and against capitalism and against the
United States. He had long turned his courses into exercises in
one-sided indoctrination and politicization. Hmmm, where on earth
have we heard about such things before?
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University of Exeter - Ilan
Pappe continues to promote fictitious "massacre"
Pappe’s own centerpiece contribution
in the book is a long-winded “revisionist” (meaning, largely false)
retelling of his own adventures in inventing the imaginary
“massacre” of Arabs in Tantura. This “massacre” is one that Pappe
and his MA student Teddy Katz decided took place in 1948 near Haifa
just before Israeli independence was declared. The evidence for the
existence of such a massacre? None. One is just expected to take
Pappe’s word for it.
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Concordia University - Zalman Amit,
retired Professor of Psychology, promotes the end of the Jewish
State of Israel
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=32502
A growing realization that there is no
acceptable agreement has surprisingly led to an increase on both
sides of the conflict for consideration of the option of a OSS: one
state West of the Jordan River in which all residents will be
citizens. Dr. Sari Nuseiba, the president of Al-Kuds University and
a known moderate, expressed this view most convincingly by saying
...It is too late for the Two State Solution
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University of London - Moshe
Machover calls for a Pan-Arab revolution in the final "resolution";
calls for support of the "people’s struggle"
A successful Arab
revolution, and the national unification that it must bring about,
offers the one prospect for changing the balance of power, radically
redressing its present inequality. It is Zionism’s nightmare. The
settler state will no longer be facing a fragmented Arab world,
ruled by corrupt and abject elites subservient to Israel’s own
imperialist patron. Instead, it will find itself in the very midst
of – and almost surrounded by – a united Arab nation. The enormous
energy latent in the Arab masses will have been released and
mobilized in solidarity with the captive Palestinian section of the
Arab nation. The closest and most ardent ally of the Palestinian
masses is the great Egyptian working class as well as the working
classes of Iraq and other Arab countries. This giant, unchained,
will be a formidable force. ...
An immediate task is to mobilize
solidarity and support for the Palestinian people’s struggle against
the extreme oppression and atrocities to which it is subjected. In
the short and medium term, this is essentially a defensive struggle,
but vitally important for all that. What is at stake is no less than
preventing the worst: ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Arab
people, which remains a strategic aim of the Zionist settler state.
World public opinion, civil society everywhere, must be mobilized in
defence of the Palestinian people, by subjecting Israel to boycotts,
disinvestments and sanctions. Socialists have a special role in
mobilizing the workers’ movement to lead this campaign.
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The Israeli Academy and the Gaza
War
Many of the Israeli scholars who opposed the war in
Gaza did so under the increasingly fashionable guise of being ‘lone
voices,’ standing up the oppression of their own country. In the
English language environment (including the internet) in which many
of them published, this claim was used as an all-purpose calling
card and publicity gimmick. The most common themes in their writing
are that of Gaza being a ‘prison’ and the need to compare
Israel’s actions to some
other ultra-evil regime. The favorite regimes for comparison have
been the Nazis, but sometimes
apartheid
south Africa,
Russian pogromists,
or European colonizers can be recruited. The theme of Gaza being a
colonized ‘prison’ is used in order to justify the ‘resistance’ of
Hamas, meaning its terror and rockets. This recycles the dialectic
of Albert Memmi’s Colonizer and Colonized or Fanon’s
Wretched of the Earth. Under the logic of "post-colonialism,"
the colonized is always allowed any extreme so long as he is
opposing what can be dismissed as colonialism.
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Goldsmiths College - Eyal Weizman
(Dept of Visual Cultures) claims Israel is manipulating law in order
to brutalize the innocent Palestinians
' Whether Israeli
field commanders would have sanctioned the level of destruction seen
in Gaza if they felt more exposed to international legal action is
unclear. In any case the heart of the problem is not some imagined
sterile attack of controlled warning and precise destruction, but
rather the dangers that flow from the introduction of the principles
of lawfare to Israeli military-legal arsenals.'
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UCLA - Yael Korin call Israel a
"rogue state"
Several of the protesters insisted
that Israel acts outside of international law.
“We want to let the Batsheva group
know that we’re not going to treat Israel as a civilized country.
Israel is a rogue state,” said Yael Korin, a pathology researcher at
UCLA who is also an endorser of the campaign.
Korin, who was born in Israel and
has family members who are Holocaust survivors, said it is very
difficult for her family to come to terms with her political views.
“My mother is 92, and it’s hard for
her to understand why I’m doing this. She is a victim of history,”
Korin said. While understanding the history, Korin said Palestinians
should not have to pay for what happened.
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Trinity College
(Ireland) - Ronit Lentin (Dept of Sociology)
promotes Israel's Destruction through the Academic Polysyllable
A quick surf
through Lentin’s
personal website, entitled "Free Radikal," tells a lot about
her. Neutrality and objectivity play no role. She is a
self-described “radical,” even choosing the spelling of her site as
“radikal” (how nonconformist and anti-Anglo-Saxon of her!). Her
website consists almost entirely of Palestinian propaganda against
Israel. Throughout the site Lentin expresses her “rage” against
Israel for daring to defend its civilians from rocket attacks.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe
(Dept. of Political Science) continues to claim ghettoizing, ethnic
cleansing and genocide; gets published in the Teheran Times
Ethnic cleansing is ineffective
here. The earlier strategy in the Strip was ghettoizing the
Palestinians there, but this is not working. The Jews know it best
from their history. In the past, the next stage against such
communities was even more barbaric. It is difficult to tell what
does the future hold for the Gaza community: ghettoized,
quarantined, unwanted and demonized.
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UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg makes
unsupported anti-Israel remarks in Israel bashing conference
UCLA history
professor Gabriel Piterberg made a macabre remark about Israelis
“dancing on the blood of Palestinian children” and called for the
prosecution of Israeli “war criminals.”
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe
(Dept. of Political Science) lobbies Ireland to attack Israel
Another reason was the “genocidal”
elimination of Hamas and Hizbullah. Unless Europe took a tougher
stance, there would be worse to come. The Israelis had found a
“formula”, containing the people of Gaza in a prison camp and those
of the West Bank in an apartheid-style bantustan, he said.
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University of the Witwatersrand
(once the bastion of Afrikaaner racism) - Ran Greenstein (Department
of Sociology) calls for boycotts of Israeli "apartheid"
'The main problem
here is the long-term success of the Israeli strategy of
'externalizing' the Palestinian issue. This has been consistently
the case: from the ethnic cleansing of 1948, through the suspension
of the post-1967 occupied territories in an eternal limbo of non-
annexation and non-liberation, all the way to the various post-Oslo
disengagement plans that leave Palestine inside the boundaries of
Israeli control while Palestinians remain outside the boundaries of
citizenship and rights. While the occupation is still the paramount
reality in the daily lives of Palestinians, it has become invisible
to the majority of Israelis (academics included), who neither see it
nor feel its presence in their daily lives. They do not understand
what they have to do with the conditions of life of people who live
in 'foreign' territories. In this sense, Israeli Jews are different
from white South Africans, whose daily lives under apartheid made it
impossible for them to ignore the presence of large numbers of black
people around, in the workplaces, in the streets, and even within
their households. The reality of apartheid was fully visible to all
white South Africans, regardless of their social and political
positions, and therefore the relationship between 'crime' and
'punishment' (in the form of sanctions) was fairly obvious. How can
this relationship be made similarly visible to Israeli academics?
... This argument is a call for smart, focused sanctions that get
people involved at local levels and provide them with concrete
targets to achieve.'
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Oxford - Avi Shlaim (Dept of
History) unsurprisingly sides with Turkish PM over Davos tirade
Mr. Erdoğan’s
comments were not diplomatic because diplomats use very low key,
cautious language and usually end up saying nothing. He expressed a
strong position and his language was not diplomatic. But I uphold
his right to express his feelings in his own way.
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Oxford - Avi Shlaim (Dept of
History) used as a source for Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's
anti-Israel tirade at Davos forum
The other
"scholar" cited by Erdogan is the
Israel-hating professor Avi Shlaim, who is on the faculty of
Oxford University.
Shlaim is a pseudo-historian who
has made
a career out of serving up
anti-Israel propaganda, including for the extremist Jew-hating
"The Nation" magazine. Shlaim gained notoriety when it turned out he
was one of the
two "academics" who prostituted themselves for Neo-Nazi Norman
Finkelstein. He served as accomplice in the attempts by
Finkelstein's supporters to maneuver DePaul University into granting
Finkelstein tenure on the basis of his anti-Semitic rants.
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UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg (Dept of
History) participates in Israel bashing symposium at UCLA
UCLA history professor Gabriel
Piterberg followed. He described an "Israeli onslaught on Gaza
Palestinians" and labeled IDF soldiers "war criminals."
He alleged the "forced removal of the indigenous people in favor of
the settler nation-state," with Palestinians supposedly being the
former and Israelis the latter.
He cited Karl Marx, referencing popular revolts in China and India
and the Algerian struggle against France as examples of the
proletariat overthrowing oppressors. Palestinians would rise up
next, he predicted.
He repeated the
debunked charge that Israel has killed Gazans using white
phosphorous.
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UCLA - Gabriel Piterberg (Dept. of
History) draws a false analogy; Attempts to divert attention way
from the missiles falling on Israeli heartland
Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, the attack on Gaza will be
seen as the action of a colonial power that is running out of ideas;
not unlike France in the final stage of the Algerian war.
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University of East London - Yosefa
Loshitzky (Dept. of Film Studies) claims that Operation "Cast Lead"
is a victory of "disinformation" and "lies" by Israeli hasbara
(public relations)
The cynicism
embedded in the name, selected for what Ari Shavit, one of Israel's
most celebrated commentators, called "an intelligent, impressive
operation," is symptomatic to the cold, meticulous and calculated
cruelty with which this attack was "designed," "executed" and
"marketed" to the world. As the perpetrators themselves proudly
boast, Operation Cast Lead is not only a great military victory but
also a success story of Israeli hasbara (meaning in Hebrew,
explanation, but practically referring to misinformation, spin and
lies).
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Oxford - Avi Shlaim (Dept
of History) calls Israel's right to defend itself
“propaganda” and “a pack of lies”
Amy Goodman: Professor Avi Shlaim,
Israel says the reason it has attacked Gaza is because of the rocket
fire, the rockets that Hamas is firing into southern Israel.
Avi Shlaim: This is Israeli propaganda,
and it is a pack of lies.
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University of Exeter -
Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science) justifies Hamas kassam
missile war crimes; hangs the war crime “albatross” on Israel’s neck
Between 1967 and
2005, Gaza’s land and water were plundered by Jewish settlers in
Gush Katif at the expense of the local population. The price of
peace and security for the Palestinians there was to give themselves
up to imprisonment and colonisation. Since 2000, Gazans have chosen
instead to resist in greater numbers and with greater force. It was
not the kind of resistance the West approves of: it was Islamic and
military. Its hallmark was the use of primitive Qassam rockets,
which at first were fired mainly at the settlers in Katif. The
presence of the settlers, however, made it hard for the Israeli army
to retaliate with the brutality it uses against purely Palestinian
targets. So the settlers were removed, not as part of a unilateral
peace process as many argued at the time (to the point of suggesting
that Ariel Sharon be awarded the Nobel peace prize), but rather to
facilitate any subsequent military action against the Gaza Strip and
to consolidate control of the West Bank. … Israel justifies its
conduct in Gaza as a part of the fight against terrorism, although
it has itself violated every international law of war.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe
(Dept. of Political Science) once again explains why Israel needs to
be exterminated
Another name for
this ideology is Zionism and an international rebuke for Zionism,
not just for particular Israeli policies, is the only way of
countering this self-righteousness. We have to try and explain not
only to the world, but also to the Israelis themselves, that Zionism
is an ideology that endorses ethnic cleansing, occupation and now
massive massacres. What is needed now is not just a condemnation of
the present massacre but also delegitimization of the ideology that
produced that policy and justifies it morally and politically. Let
us hope that significant voices in the world will tell the Jewish
state that this ideology and the overall conduct of the state are
intolerable and unacceptable and as long as they persist, Israel
will be boycotted and subject to sanctions.
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Oxford University
– Avi Shlaim (Dept. of History) declares that Israel and the US
are "gangster states" over present Gaza action
The only way to
make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through
understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of
Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the
Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American
partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John
Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the
Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state
headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think
that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the
people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this
assault, have reopened the question.
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University of East London - Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of
Cultural Studies) beleaguers Czech Republic President's Spokesperson
into resignation
Spokesperson of
the Czech Republic President, Mr. Jiri Potuznik resigns after he
calls Israel’s action ‘defensive’ ... See Haim Bresheeth’s letter
demanding his resignation, and his answer that he has indeed
resigned!
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Southhampton University - Oren Ben-Dor (Dept. of Law) rejects the right of the Jewish State of Israel to existAccepting
the right of Israel to securely exist as a Jewish state has now become
the bench mark for political moderation. Obama is already singing the
song. Egalitarian anti-Zionists who challenge that right readily fail
the test. This anti-Zionist voice is inclusive and moderate. It
insists that injustices to Palestinians stem from the very premise of
statehood that Israel is based on. Injustices to Palestinians
encompass the whole of historic Palestine in a way which cannot be
partitioned so that they become visible only in the territories,
including Gaza, which Israel occupied in 1967. Let us, then, break the
idle chatter about self-defence that merely levels “criticisms” against
Israel but by that legitimises it: the origin of the violence in Gaza
is intimately linked to the manner the Israeli state came into being
and to the continuing toleration of the apartheid premise at its very
essence. Israel should not be “reformed” or “condemned” but replaced
with a single egalitarian structure over all historic Palestine.
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San Diego State
University: Sociology Professor Gershon Shafir: anti-Israel Alien
Colonizer of San Diego
Shafir is just one
more “It’s-all-Israel’s-fault-because-it’s-a-Jewish-state” academic.
His only claim to notoriety is that he is an ex-Israeli saying such
things. But Israelis and ex-Israelis who hate their own native
country are not uncommon in academia these days. Professor Gershon
Shafir’s biased suggestions for ending the Middle East impasse only
will make the conflict harder to end.
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Oxford University
– Avi Shlaim (Dept. of History) in video conference reveals “deep”
knowledge of Israeli politics, calls PM Ehud Olmert “embodiment of
the right-wing Zionist dream” and quotes Karl Marx while calling for
an end to “occupation”
In his talk,
entitled "Obsession with Territory Post-1967," Shlaim blasts the
settlements, which he says have turned Israel into an apartheid
state, as the primary source of failure for peace efforts with the
Palestinians.
Shlaim believes
Zionism was derailed from its course after the Six-Day war, when its
universalist principles were replaced with "religious messianism and
secular nationalism." Israel must give up land, he says, not just as
a concession to the Palestinians, but because "a people that
oppresses another cannot itself remain free."
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Oxford - The Shoddy
(Pseudo-) "Scholarship" of Avi Shlaim (Dept of History)
'Shoddy history
... Shlaim is incapable of dispassionate analysis...At every
opportunity, he revels in accusing Israel's leaders of "dishonesty,"
"deviousness," and "unrelenting expansionism."'
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Stalin’s anti-Semitism
and hatred of Israel lives on as strong as ever at the University of
London: Professor Moshe Machover
Machover also
advocates for an unconditional right of return of Arabs, but Jews,
you see, never had a right of return and are just “settlers” (as
usual he refers to the Territories when convenient, but means all of
Israel). Meanwhile, three generations of Sabras do no not even have
a right to call themselves Israelis according to Machover. To him,
they are merely “Hebrews” who have illegally settled on Arab land as
an example of “colonialism” in the worst sense, supported by the
Western “imperialist” powers. The Muslim umma and pan-Arab
nationalists he mentions are not imperialists or colonialists, you
see, only Jews who seek national determination are such... What he
purposely leaves out is that whereas the British were the colonial
power in Palestine prior to 1948, the Jews were not a colonial power
also, even if such a description fits well with his communist
ideology. The British repaid the Jewish Legion who fought the Turks
on the Allied side the same as they repaid today’s economic and
terrorist curse to the world, the Saudis, for doing the same. Both
groups were promised their own country if they fought and died
against the Central Powers. Ultimately, the Brits screwed the Jews and gave
half of what was to be Israel to another tribe from the Arabian
Peninsula, the Hashemites, that became Jordan and Iraq. Contrary to
being colonists of Arab land, the Jews were under the yoke of
British colonialism and fought the British as well as the Arabs
until the UN decision to create Israel in 1948. Prior to 1948, Jews
in Israel fought both the Arabs and the British to have their own
independence despite British duplicity with the Arabs against the
Jews.
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Israeli Academic
Extremists Outside Israel - Dorit Namaan (Queen’s University) Leads
a Panel of Israeli Academic Traitors that Call for the Dissolution
of Israel as a Jewish State
And there’s Dorit
Namaan of Queen’s University itself, whose opuses include the
article “Brides of Palestine/Angels of Death: Media, Gender and
Performance in the Case of the Palestinian Female Suicide Bomber”
and a book in progress “on the visual representation of Palestinian
and Israeli women fighters” (let’s see, that will probably discern
equivalencies between female members of the Israel Defense Forces
and Palestinian women who blow up pizza parlors). And also Elia
Zureik of Queen’s University, who in 2000 called in a Los Angeles
Times op-ed for…the Palestinian right of return.
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University of East London
- Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of Cultural Studies) praises suicide bombers'
"self-sacrifice" in Palestinian Al-Ahram Weekly
Israel has
persuaded the Palestinians, quite efficiently, that there is no hope
for them to live normally in the Middle East. They seem to have
heeded this cruel and inhuman message, and some of them, seemingly
many (and numbers are growing by the day as Israeli atrocities
mount) are prepared to give their life in order to hurt the
occupiers of their country. But then, this was always true. Nations
around the globe have shown that self-sacrifice is an integral part
of an independence struggle.
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Israeli Academic
Extremists Outside Israel - Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) and
Gabi Piterberg (UCLA) Pose a Threat to Israel's Continued Existence
According to Aryeh Green
The flyers
presented a caricature of two Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian
man with clubs depicted as maps of Israel, one labeled "Palestine,"
the other "South Africa." The conference centered on themes of
apartheid and Zionism, divestment and resistance. Ilan Pappe, a
professor from Haifa University [presently of University of Exeter -
editor] and advocate of a one-state solution and boycott of Israeli
institutions, spoke on "Resisting Apartheid: Divestment and
Solidarity" in a meeting chaired by Prof. Steven Rose, a leading
advocate of the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Another
speaker was Prof. Gabi Piterberg of the University of California at
Los Angeles, who spoke on "Zionism and Apartheid." In 2003 Piterberg,
an Israeli anti-Zionist, signed a petition calling for divestment
from Israel. ... Zionism in the twenty-first century will be defined
by the struggle against those who question Israel's legitimacy to
exist as a Jewish state. Nowhere is this more apparent than in
Europe, which on the whole is about two decades "ahead" of America
in accepting the anti-Semitic argument that Israel is a colonialist,
illegitimate oppressor. This belief crosses social, economic,
religious, and political boundaries and is not limited to the
disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank"). With
these attitudes now accepted among European youth, in ten years, or
twenty at most, there may be no question among Europe's political
and business elite as to Israel's original sin in its founding. This
development would pose as much a strategic threat to Israel, the
Jewish world, and the entire free world as Iranian missiles and the
ascendancy of
Hamas,
Hizbullah, and other Islamofascist movements. Europe is already
the leading economic power in the world and is challenging U.S.
hegemony around the globe politically. The coming decade will decide
how Europe views the Zionist experiment that is the state of Israel,
as several of Europe's leaders of 2015 learn philosophy, history,
politics, and religion at the feet of virulent anti-Semites.
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Concordia University -
Emeritus Professor Zalman Amit (Dept of Psychology)
But wait, there’s
more on Zalman Amit than just the company he keeps and promotes. As
mentioned, he feels that academic freedom in Israel has been
threatened (no doubt by the likes of Isracampus.org) because false
Arab inspired propaganda tales of Jews massacring Arabs en masse
need to be accepted in the University sphere even when they did not
happen. The case in point here is Amit’s defense of the PhD thesis
fabricated by Teddy Katz, a history student at Haifa University,
of a
massacre of Arabs by Jews in 1948 in the nearby village of Tantura.
Katz already testified on the stand when sued by Israeli war
veterans for libel and defamation that he fabricated the deliberate
killings. Further evidence revealed he’d been paid thousands of
dollars by the PLO. But for Zalman Amit, it’s never-say-die as he
tries to twist an abuse of academic freedom in the academy into a
denial of academic freedom
According to the
organization in Canada, Mothers Against Sexual Abuse (MASA),
Zalman Amit was paid $25,000 by a wealthy father accused of sexually
molesting his 9 year-old daughter to testify on behalf of the
father. According to the MASA, Amit “...after meeting once with the
child's mother for only 20 minutes, he shamelessly declared that she
was psychotic and unfit mother because of her political stance in
favor of the Palestinians’ cause. ... This unprofessional
psychologist who screamed from the top of his lungs in the Court
that he was a Zionist, that the mother was unfit because of her
anti-Zionist stance, today pretends to be himself against Zionism
and has joined a certain Palestine Solidarity Campaign.” [Palestine
Solidarity is the alternate name for the ISM].
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Binghamton University
(SUNY) - A response to a letter Isracampus received from a reader:
Bat-Ami Bar-On
There is not one
democratic Arab or Muslim country in the entire umma, or the
entire world; even a future Palestinian state will be run by Sharia
law as its constitution, already ratified, is modeled after those of
Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Palestinian Arabs may not have equal
military power in the West Bank and Gaza (where they are arming
thanks to Iran), but they have the entire Muslim and totalitarian
world behind them with oil money, guns, more money, boycotts, more
oil money, intimidation, extra oil money, publicity, add on oil
money, divestment, Gulf oil money and classical anti-Semitism, and,
coming soon to threaten the only Jewish state near you, nuclear
weapons.
It is me as a
writer here at Isracampus who believes it is you who
"misunderstands" the concept of democracy. You think it means the
power to say, undisputed, anything one wants no matter how untrue,
or how damaging to concept of empirical proof, should be given equal
weight to the facts. Arabs who do not maintain bomb factories in
their homes or build illegally on someone else's property without a
deed do not incur home demolitions. Peaceful Arabs in the
territories are not "harassed" and do have recourse to complain to
the authorities (meanwhile the Arabs complain of babies stillborn at
checkpoints (that never occurred) in the same ambulances that have
in the past transported suicide bombers and weapons). Checkpoints
don't just prevent the deaths of Jews by terrorists, they protect
innocent Arabs on both sides of the Green Line.
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UCLA - Yael Korin's
(Medical School) War on Israel
In addition to
Women in Black, Korin is
listed
here by Al-Awda (the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition) as a
“founding member of the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Southern
California.” Attach any vicious terminology to Israel—“born in sin,”
“war crimes,” “ethnic cleansing,” “apartheid”—and Yael Korin is
there to endorse and propagate it. Her pathological loathing of
Israel and Israelis, if not literally murderous (and that is an open
question), certainly encompasses identifying with those who do
murder Israelis en masse. Psychologically speaking she is a
frightening phenomenon of reality-distortion and evil, exploiting
her democratic freedoms to spread her message of incendiary hatred.
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University of Exeter - Ilan
Pappe's claim of an "experiment in famine" diverts attention from
Hamas graft and arms smuggling
Gordon 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.
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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.
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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
Kenneth Mann, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Law
Eyal Wiezman, University of London - Dept of Visual Cultures
It has been almost two years since the
last FFIPP conference in Ramallah.
Since then, the situation in the Occupied Territories has
deteriorated with the
rapidly worsening conditions in Gaza, the continued construction of
the Wall
and the settlements, continued violence— mainly against the
Palestinians- and
the lack of any progress in the ‘negotiations’. The tensions between
Hamas and
Fatah continued as well and the isolation of Hamas contributed to
the general
deterioration. The Annapolis conference has failed to produce any
positive
change in the region and the occupation of Iraq is now threatening
to escalate
into, potentially, a major confrontation with Iran.
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe (Dept. of Political Science)
plays the Racism card
The 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.
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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."
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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!
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University of Exeter - Ilan Pappe calls Zionism worse than
Apartheid
Ilan 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.
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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.
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University of East London -
Dialogue of the Deaf with Haim Bresheeth (Dept. of Cultural Studies)
Seth Frantzman conducted an email dialog
with Haim Bresheeth, 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
=====
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Queen’s University, Canada -
Israeli/Canadian Film Professor Dorit Naaman encourages "the murder
of fellow Israelis"
The 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.
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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
TO EXIST IS TO RESIST
LIVE FREE: PALESTINE AWARENESS WEEK
COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF
PALESTINE
MAY 12TH THROUGH MAY 18TH
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
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.
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University of Exeter - Book Review - Ilan Pappe's book attempts
to rewrite history but falls short
Reviewed 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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
www.haaretz.com
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.
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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.
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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 ber 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.]
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Exeter University - Ilan Pappe (Dept of Political Science)
Deconstructs Treason
Pappe 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."
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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.
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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
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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.'
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Network of Expatriate Treachery
By 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!'
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Columbia University - Yinon Cohen (Dept. of Sociology, until
recently at Tel Aviv University) to lead the anti-Israel camp in
Columbia University
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.
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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