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The news of the massive refusal of Jewish donors to support Ben Gurion University as long as it continues to operate as Israel's University of Treason continues to thunder in Israel.

In the Hebrew news web site News1 comes an interesting Op-Ed written by Yehuda Drori. The writer was once in charge of fundraising for the Keren Kayemet fund in the American southwest. His article in News1 is entitled, "No Contributions to Slanderers and their Patrons." His article calls on people to contact donors and supporters of Ben Gurion University and other Israeli schools, and to call upon them NOT to support those academics involved in slandering Israel and serving anti-Semites and Israel bashers.

The full article in Hebrew appears here: http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-58862-00.html

Isracampus Translation: Yehuda Drori's , "No Contributions to Slanderers and their Patrons" – which appeared in "News1" on April 21, 2011

The news of the massive refusal of Jewish donors to support Ben Gurion University as long as it continues to operate as Israel's University of Treason continues to thunder in Israel.

The following is Steven Plaut's translation of the article:

There is only one choice left to those of us who seek the eviction of those who slander Israel from Israel's academic institutions, and it is to appeal directly to donors and contributors to these schools, both foreign and Israeli donors, and to clarify to them that their generosity is being misused by these institutions to serve anti-Semitism and the enemies of the country.

Thirty years ago I was in charge of fundraising for the Keren Kayemet in the American southwest. I was generally successful in this capacity, especially when persuading donors that their contributions were serving Israel's development. Hundreds of generous Jews from outside Israel contribute each year to Israeli universities, as well as to hospitals and other projects that contribute towards Israel's development.

A few years back I discovered that a university in northern Israel (he means University of Haifa -- SP) had eliminated all benefits for Israeli army vets. At the same time, it not only created preferences and benefits for Arab students, but also granted to them the right to organize politically on campus, including holding of incitement rallies against the country. The university refused to do anything at all about this, and simply barricaded itself behind the distorted mantras about supposed 'equality and democracy.'

It should be crystal clear that the status of an army vet who served his country for three years is not the same as that of an Arab youth who sat at home or worked for wages during the same period. It is clear that equality does not begin just at the university gate. And it is also clear that criminal incitement is not part of freedom of speech. Especially not chants of "Massacre the Yids" or the flying of PLO flags on campus. It also does not grant the right to silence speakers on campus who happen to oppose the 'rights' of the 'Palestinian people.'

Since there was no response at all to direct appeals to the officers of this university, I obtained the list of donors to the school and sent personal letters to each one, including translations of newspaper clippings. I described for them the outrageous scandal they were supporting. How they were in fact being put in the position of supporting anti-Semites and anti-Zionists. And I learned that my efforts bore fruit.

The officers of the school revoked most of the pseudo-"egalitarian" decisions that had been made. It placed constraints on the campus political activities of Arab students. This shows that if you want to create a separation between criminal incitement and freedom of speech, it is necessary to hit the phony "enlightened" do-gooders and bleeding hearts smack in their wallets!

We recently read in Maariv about an American donor who has frozen a promised contribution to Ben Gurion University because of the campus web of anti-Israel and pro-PLO incitement being operated from within by Neve Gordon. At the same time the CEO of the university, Rivka Carmi, who is herself identified with the Left, defends and justifies Gordon and his repulsive activities, all supposedly in the name of academic freedom and democracy, slogans that have become the last refuge of all haters of Israel and enemies of the country.

Next month hundreds of donors will be coming to Israel from all corners of the Diaspora to the Board of Governors meetings of Ben Gurion University. It is my intention, and everyone is welcome to join me, to explain to these representatives from all over the world that their support for Ben Gurion University must be conditioned on the eviction of the criminal inciter Neve Gordon and of his enabler Rivka Carmi.

All the chatter and patter about friendly persuasion and compromise with the university have long been proven to be pointless. We are in a war for our future and our image, and the enemy must be neutralized. Today we know who that enemy is and how to deal with him.

The full article in Hebrew appears here: http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-58862-00.html