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In an important landmark court case, Judge Sarah Dovrat in Beer Sheba court dismissed the fraudulent claims presented by Prof. Oren Yiftachel (Ben Gurion University, Dept of Geography). Yiftachel has a long track record of granting "academic" artillery support to fraudulent claims by Negev Bedouins to huge tracts of land they do not own and to which they have no legitimate claims. Yiftachel's position has long been that Israel needs to recognize every imaginary "claim" to land made by any Negev Bedouin.

While dismissing Yiftachel's claims, the judge accepted the arguments of a rival geography professor, Ruth Kark, from the Hebrew University, testifying for the state against the Bedouin claims.

In the verdict rejecting the Bedouin case, the judge repeatedly blasted Yiftachel and his "research." She accused Yiftachel of endorsing claims made by Bedouins without even having bothered to read them. She attacked Yiftachel for relying on the "Palestine Law Report" without even understanding what it was referring to, and then trying to twist and turn his way out of his being nailed for his errors. It would have been far more dignified for Yiftachel to concede his errors, said the judge in the verdict. The Bedouins were represented by radical leftist lawyer Michael Sfard and were ordered to pay 50,000 in court costs.

A more detailed news report on the court case appears in English here: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=262501
and in Hebrew here
http://www.calcalist.co.il/real_estate/articles/0,7340,L-3565560,00.html

Yiftachel is an anti-Israel extremist who has built a career out of inventing claims that Israel is an apartheid society. What little academic credibility Yiftachel might have had before this court case was blasted to pieces by the judge.

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Special Isracampus Report – Ben Gurion University - Judge Dismisses Oren Yiftachel (Dept of Geography) as a Charlatan

Special Isracampus Report –
Ben Gurion University - Judge Dismisses Oren Yiftachel (Dept of Geography) as a Charlatan