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Ben Gurion University - Confessions of Political String Pulling and Hiring Practices at BGU contrast President Rivka Carmi's claims of Ivory Tower Utopia

[Benny Morris said] '… In fact, I was given a job (at Ben-Gurion University) only in 1997, and only after the intercession of Israel's (far-leftist at the time -- SP) president, Ezer Weizman, years before my allegedly specious "conversion" to pro-Zionism that Karsh says occurred in or after 2000.'

So when the president of Ben Gurion University, the cabbagehead Rivka Carmi, insists that hiring at Ben Gurion University is completely depoliticized and political ideology plays no role in hiring, we would like to hear her explain away the hiring of Benny Morris, which – by his own insistence – took place simply because of the ideological and political intervention of Ezer Weizmann.

http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2011/07/political-string-pulling-and-hiring.html

Political String Pulling and Hiring Practices at Ben Gurion University

Posted by Steven Plaut
Monday, July 18, 2011

Benny Morris, the one time Post-Zionist pseudo-historian, and today a sometimes Zionist, has decided to reveal the true circumstances of his being hired at Ben Gurion University, despite having an academic track record at the time consisting of a few Bash-Israel books in anti-Israel historic revisionism:

'I was among those fired by The Jerusalem Post in 1990-91, after the right-wing Conrad Black-Hollinger takeover of the newspaper, and I was unemployed between 1991 and 1997. No Israeli university would hire me (as would no Jewish studies department I applied to in the US), despite having published a fistful of books by 1993 (three of them with Cambridge University Press or Oxford University Press; all were well-received). Absurdly, Karsh asserts that this is a "patent fabrication." In fact, I was given a job (at Ben-Gurion University) only in 1997, and only after the intercession of Israel's (far-leftist at the time -- SP) president, Ezer Weizman, years before my allegedly specious "conversion" to pro-Zionism that Karsh says occurred in or after 2000.'

So when the president of Ben Gurion University, the cabbagehead Rivka Carmi, insists that hiring at Ben Gurion University is completely depoliticized and political ideology plays no role in hiring, we would like to hear her explain away the hiring of Benny Morris, which – by his own insistence – took place simply because of the ideological and political intervention of Ezer Weizmann. (This is the same Ezer Weizmann who began in Likud before shifting to the Left, and was forced to resign the Israeli presidency in 2000, after getting Morris set up, because of "dirty" financial transactions and connections.)