Isracampus Digest
Summer 2009
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The IsraCampus
challenge to Israeli Law Professors
Isracampus hereby
challenges the professors and lecturers in law schools in Israel to
speak out against the McCarthyist suppression of freedom of speech
and the anti-democratic firing and political persecution, in the
case of Rabbi Israel Shiran at the Moriah-Barkai high school in
Haifa, Israel. He was fired and demonized by Minster of Education
Yuli Tamir because he dared to express a political opinion of which
she disapproved, namely, his belief that Yitzhak Rabin's political
ideology should not be a matter for indoctrination in Israeli
schools.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
A Litmus Test For
Opponents of the "Nakba Law"
There are two types of
people posturing their outrage at the proposed "Anti-Nakba" law. One
consists of free speech absolutists. The other consists of
anti-democratic haters of Israel, many of them people with a
neo-fascist disdain for freedom of speech. The first group truly
believes in freedom of speech, even for radicals, traitors, and
extremists. The second group consists of people who are fighting
against the "anti-Nakba law" because they agree with the "Nakba
nuts" that Israel's very existence is a catastrophe, something that
should be corrected by means of exterminating Israel.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
IDI Watch –
Yedidia Stern (Bar Ilan University) takes a pot shot at the anti-Nakba
laws; dismisses Arab loyalty concerns
Nevertheless, a murky
wave of nationalistic fervor against Arab citizens is gaining steam.
The voices hoping to use the Knesset's powers to legislate bizarre,
racist laws - laws aimed at extinguishing a threat that does not
exist - are gaining strength. If these bills are passed, they will
harm the State of Israel's moral and international legitimacy.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Tel Aviv
University – Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) will be investigated by
Attorney General Mazuz for her false and libelous accusation that an
IDF soldier committed murder
The e-mail that caused a
stir in the IDF: Mazuz, the Attorney General of Israel is to examine
the complaint against Dr. Anat Matar, of Tel Aviv University's
Philosophy's department, who sent out an e-mail containing a picture
of an IDF soldier. Matar claimed that the soldier in the picture was
the one who shot dead a demonstrator in Bil'in, and branded him a
'murderer', she asked viewers to supply the soldier’s personal
information. ... Chairman of the Education Committee, M.K. Zevulon
Orlev, accused the lecturer of a media lynch. "Dr. Matar does not
represent any constitutional or legislative authority and her
actions are reprehensible'', said Orlev and added that he is waiting
for the results of the Attorney General’s investigation.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
for the original article in Hebrew,
go here
Hebrew University
- Yuri Pines (East Asia Studies) - the Worst Stalinist at the Hebrew
University, Smears an Army Hero
But when Yuri Pines (his
last name is pronounced like the male sex organ), a Jerusalem
associate professor of imperial Chinese History, received an email
it which he was asked to add his name to a petition against the
demolition, he went ballistic. "I hope that not only his house would
be destroyed, but also the entire settlement!" And for a good
measure he added, "And that the terrorist-settlers will be dispersed
into the four corners of the world.” He was using the Hebrew term "mitnahablim,"
which is a coined word that rhymes with “settlers” but means
terrorists.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Hebrew University
Spokespeople dismiss IsraCampus.Org.il’s claims of Anti-Israel
activity from Faculty as “baseless”
The Hebrew University
itself has come under fire in recent days, as its annual Board of
Governors meeting has drawn increased criticism from right-wing
groups saying professors at the institution are increasingly
anti-Israel. An ad sponsored by the group Isracampus that appeared
in Monday's Post called on the board of Governors to become aware of
"what is really taking place inside the Hebrew University." … the
university addressed the issue in an e-mail. "The university will
not respond to baseless claims made by organizations or individuals
via paid advertisements that are published in the press," it read.
"If the university happens to receive any legitimate complaints, it
will handle these accordingly.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Haifa University
- Lecture Hall at Haifa University made Judenrein - Jewish students
barred from attending lecture by head of the Islamic (Islamofascist)
movement of Israel
Islamic Movement leader
Sheikh Raed Salah gave a talk to Arab students at Haifa University
on Wednesday, while Jewish students were not allowed into the
lecture hall. The Jewish students expressed their outrage at how the
hard-line sheikh was let in to the campus, but the university said
it couldn't prevent Salah's entrance, saying that they had their
hands tied.'
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
“Affirmative
Action” at the University of Haifa: Supervisor of the Fabrication
of the Tantora Massacre Thesis promoted to Full Professor
The University of Haifa
just decided to promote Prof. Kais Firro to the rank of full
professor, despite the fact that Firro has very few academic
publications to his record. Firro is best known for having been the
formal thesis advisor to the anti-Israel extremist
Teddy Katz, in which the
thesis fabricated an imaginary “massacre” of Arabs in the
village of Tantora by the Alexandroni battalion of the Palmach
during Israel’s War of Independence. Katz later admitted in court
that the allegation
was a fabrication. For details, see this:
http://weeklystandard.com/check.asp?idArticle=99&r=jjldm While
the malicious
Ilan Pappe, back then on the faculty of the University of Haifa
in political science, has generally been assumed to be the driving
force behind the fabrication, Kais Firro officially supervised and
approved the thesis and gave it a grade of 97. The University later
revoked Katz’ degree and refused to recognize the thesis.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
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.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Ben Gurion
University – Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) calls Israel an
“apartheid regime”; ignores Jewish “Right of Settlement” recognized
by the British Mandate; calls all settlements in Judea and Samaria
“illegal”
So far Obama's challenges
to Israel have been theoretical, and the only substantive demand
that Washington has made involves the 100 or so Jewish outposts in
the West Bank. Reiterating President Bush's directive, Obama
recently asked Netanyahu to begin dismantling the outposts. Legally
the outposts are just like the 121 settlements (namely, they are all
illegal). Only the outposts were built following the 1993 Oslo
Accords, and, as opposed to the settlements, which are now home to
close to half a million Jews - or about 7 percent of Israel's
citizenry - almost all the outposts are extremely sparsely populated
with less than a dozen people in each.
…
If Obama hesitates, Israel will become a full blown apartheid
regime, while if he remains bold he will probably be remembered as
the president who helped save Israel from itself. To do so he will
have to make Netanyahu sweat much more.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Nazi Salutes at
Hebrew University
Student council
electioneering on the campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem
deteriorated into Nazi salutes by far-left and Communist students,
according to one of the leaders of a Zionist youth movement.
University President Menachem Megidor was called upon to take action
against those students who used the raised-arm salutes.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Holon Institute of
Technology - Diana Dolev’s colleagues at “New Profile” get arrested
for incitement to “evade military service” and to “obtain an
exemption by deceit”; complain about treatment usually reserved for
“settlers”
The investigation of New
Profile began on September 15, 2008, a week after an expose on “New
Profile” appeared in the Jerusalem Post (which
was also brought to the attention of Isracampus.Org.il readers).
… the investigation did not focus on actions perpetrated by the
suspects but on the opinions they had expressed on the site,
allegedly including in the organization's charter. This was a
violation of the fundamental right of freedom of expression.
According to a statement
issued by the Justice Ministry spokesman at that time, the Web sites
of New Profile and Target 21 were suspected of preaching evasion of
military service, thereby violating Article 109 of the Penal Law.
They were also suspected of helping those slated for military
service to obtain an exemption by deceit or by knowingly submitting
false information, the ministry said.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
The College of Management Academic Studies – Orna Ben-Naftali
(Dept. of Law) performs the anti-Israel legal work
Focusing on the continued
Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory conquered in 1967,
the article argues that this occupation has become illegal both
intrinsically (that is, in terms of the normative regime of
occupation) and extrinsically (that is, in terms of the
international legal order which generates the normative regime of
occupation as an exception to the normal order of sovereign equality
between states: the situation is exceptional due to the severance of
the link between sovereignty and effective control).
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Terrorism Aviv
University accepts a New PhD Student
He already got his MA
from Tel Aviv University in "ethics." That is correct, Tel Aviv
University evidently considers Palestinian anti-Semitism and
terrorism "ethical." He is also a militant supporter of Israel's
extermination under what the anti-Semitic Left these days calls the
"one-state solution." His group has made headlines for demanding
that Israeli universities themselves be targeted for boycott (see
the following article). So here we have the spectacle of Tel
Aviv University treating this pogromchik as a scholar and accepting
him for PhD studies. He is on record as claiming that Israel is
conducting genocide against Arabs (see
the following article). Anyone who thinks Tel Aviv University
has retained any academic standards at all will now have to think
again.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Ben Gurion
University – David Newman (Dept of Political Science) – Yet another
Enemy of Freedom of Speech and Democracy at Ben Gurion University
That does not stop Newman
from
attacking on the pages of the Jerusalem Post critics of seditious
leftist anti-Israel propagandists pretending to be academics.
Newman dismisses critics of anti-Israel critics as "McCarthyists,"
as people who should be stripped of their right to exercise THEIR
freedom of speech, prevented from criticizing anti-Israel
extremists. Newman
specifically attacks Dr. Daniel Pipes of Campus-Watch.org, Prof.
Gerald Steinberg of NGO-Monitor, and Israeli academic watchdog
groups (such as
isracampus.org.il), for the "crime" of exposing anti-Israel
fanatics serving on Israeli campus faculties. In most cases, these
watchdogs simply cite the malicious hate propaganda produced by
these fanatics in their own words. But in the eyes of the
neo-fascist McCarthyist Left, critics of the Left are not entitled
to freedom of expression.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Tel Aviv
University to be Converted to a Gulag (for a day)
Many of us have long
suspected that Tel Aviv University (TAU) often serves as a communist
re-education gulag, dominated by its post-Zionist anti-Israel
far-leftists in whose classrooms no Zionist or non-leftist opinion
may ever be expressed. But this coming March 25, 2009, it really
will be a gulag! At least for one day! Israel's
pro-terror communist party MAKI will hold its "congress" that
day in the TAU
law
school, which has been much in the news recently for
attempts at suppressing academic freedom there, gulag-style.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
To
see the "congress" flyer (Hebrew),
go here
Tel Aviv
University - Yehuda (Judd) Ne'eman (Dept of Film and Television) has
no problem accepting the Israel Prize (and the prize money) from the
State he condemns
Yehuda Ne'eman, like so
many of members of the Far Left academic mafia, is a hypocrite. He
already made clear that he would not refuse the Prize, awarded by
the "judges" Prof. Ram Levi, director Orna Ben Dor and Dr. Anat
Preminger. "I feel like I belong and I don't belong; the part that
belongs very much wants to be a part of things and receive
recognition, while the part that doesn't belong is kicking and
telling me all the things a person has to say to himself and not to
anyone else," he told Ha'aretz, after expressing delight at the news
of the Prize. "With all the horrible things Israel does, I know that
from the perspective of history, on the scale of evil, we are not at
the top of the chart." How comforting.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Ben Gurion University - Neve
Gordon (Dept of Political Science) is Al Jazeera's newest Columnist
So here we have the
spectacle of an anti-Semitic Israeli lecturer turning out
Bash-Israel and Bash-the-Jews propaganda for one of the most openly
anti-Semitic group of jihadniks on the planet. Ben Gurion University
regards Gordon's anti-Israel hate propaganda as "scholarship" and
"research" and granted him tenure on its basis, proving that serious
academic standards no longer are upheld at Ben Gurion University.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
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.
For more details and to
see the full original article,
go here
Carlo Strenger -
“questionable psychology” - end of summer 2009
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