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Ben Gurion UniversityBen Gurion University's Assault against Jewish StudiesDean David Newman slashes Jewish Studies Dept while adding to his Pol Sci Dept; Neve Gordon gets to control the funds [A]ccording to Makor Rishon, Dean Newman has a new cause and that is slashing and reducing the departments in the university in which Jewish Studies are taught. The university has departments of "Jewish Thought," Jewish History, and Hebrew literature. Dean Newman thinks that is far too much. He wants to reduce the sizes and number of those departments, slash their budgets and merge them into a single small department. Is he upset because so few students and faculty in these departments participate in campus pro-Hamas rallies and call for world boycotts of Israel? Newman, whose own department was denounced for its academic standards, likes to call these Jewish departments "mediocre" in terms of academic quality. They do not publish enough in English, he says, you know – unlike the books by Neve Gordon calling for world boycotts of Israel and denouncing Israel as an apartheid regime. Of course, at the same time Newman is struggling to ADD slots and budgets to his OWN political science department! Newman, whose department runs "conferences" every few weeks in which only leftists may speak, including conferences devoted to Marxist indoctrination, criticized the Jewish departments for running conferences whose academic quality was not "high enough"! The newspaper notes the atmosphere of suppression and terror introduced by Newman, manifested in the fact that none of the faculty members of the departments being targeted by Newman were willing to be interviewed. The newspaper also notes that while the commission appointed by Israel's Council on Higher Education demanded that BGU's department of political science not run a PhD program or accept PhD candidates (because of the department's low quality), not only is the department still doing so but the chap in CHARGE of the doctoral program is none other than Neve Gordon. Gordon's own PhD is from the sixth rate Notre Dame University, where he was associated with the Kroc Institute… According to Makor Rishon, Newman has also appointed Gordon to be in charge of the School's budgets.
http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2012_07_01_archive.html Ben Gurion University's Assault against Jewish Studies posted by Steven Plaut The Israeli right-leaning newspaper Makor Rishon has a MAJOR expose on the latest academic atrocities taking place at Ben Gurion University. Like so many of the past outrages there, this one involves David Newman, a leftist geographer who teaches in the political science department and who is currently Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at BGU. Newman is best remembered for having helped produced an anti-Semitic documentary for British television (see here). He is collaborator and busom buddy with Neve Gordon. Both of these critters have repeatedly called for the suppression of the freedom of speech for critics of Far Leftists. As head of the politics department, Newman built a department in which no non-leftist was allowed to teach. The single non-leftist Zionist who was teaching in the department was fired for incorrect thinking. The academic quality of that department, where anti-Israel hate propaganda is regarded as scholarly research, was so atrocious that an international panel of experts called for shutting it down altogether. (BGU's president responded to that report by suggesting some cosmetic changes, which leads me to suggest she go to work for Avon instead of for BGU.) Well, now, according to Makor Rishon, Dean Newman has a new cause and that is slashing and reducing the departments in the university in which Jewish Studies are taught. The university has departments of "Jewish Thought," Jewish History, and Hebrew literature. Dean Newman thinks that is far too much. He wants to reduce the sizes and number of those departments, slash their budgets and merge them into a single small department. Is he upset because so few students and faculty in these departments participate in campus pro-Hamas rallies and call for world boycotts of Israel? Newman, whose own department was denounced for its academic standards, likes to call these Jewish departments "mediocre" in terms of academic quality. They do not publish enough in English, he says, you know – unlike the books by Neve Gordon calling for world boycotts of Israel and denouncing Israel as an apartheid regime. Of course, at the same time Newman is struggling to ADD slots and budgets to his OWN political science department! Newman, whose department runs "conferences" every few weeks in which only leftists may speak, including conferences devoted to Marxist indoctrination, criticized the Jewish departments for running conferences whose academic quality was not "high enough"! The newspaper notes the atmosphere of suppression and terror introduced by Newman, manifested in the fact that none of the faculty members of the departments being targeted by Newman were willing to be interviewed. The newspaper also notes that while the commission appointed by Israel's Council on Higher Education demanded that BGU's department of political science not run a PhD program or accept PhD candidates (because of the department's low quality), not only is the department still doing so but the chap in CHARGE of the doctoral program is none other than Neve Gordon. Gordon's own PhD is from the sixth rate Notre Dame University, where he was associated with the Kroc Institute. The Kroc Institute is an openly Marxist "institute" (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9647), best remembered for its attempts to bring a radical Islamofascist with ties to al-Qaeda to the university as a "guest scholar" until the FBI blocked them. (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1884 ) According to Makor Rishon, Newman has also appointed Gordon to be in charge of the School's budgets. ======================================== Op-Ed articles appearing on IsraCampus.Org.il are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the opinion of IsraCampus.Org.il
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