Ben Gurion University
Ben Gurion University - A Letter to the Heads of Ben Gurion
University from a Former Director of Its "Friends of" Offices in Los
Angeles
What do Academic rights & freedoms &
Civil-Political Freedoms-of-expression in any Democracy have to do
with lecturing for 10 solid years, (as Neve Gordon has been doing
diligently with impunity and with the Univ. support & Rivka Carmi's
support), specifically calling- lecturing for the delegitimization
and demonization of Israel's, thus directly undermining its very
existence???
How many thousands of Jewish & non-Jewish BGU
students has Neve Cordon brainwashed to detest & hate Israel over
the last 10 years???...
With such Professors blossoming on Israeli
Universities campuses, who needs enemies like Achmadinejad? With
professors like Neve Gordon, who needs to read the "Charters" and
the "Covenants" of the PLO? Fatah? Hamas? and the Hezbullah, that
not only do not recognize Israel and its very rights to exist, but
specifically call for Israel's destruction ??? Does Neve Gordon
teach his students about 1,000,000 Jewish Refugees from the Arab
countries & from Iran that Israel fully absorbed since 1948???
I am astonished, disappointed, enraged and
heartbroken,
A Letter to the Heads of Ben Gurion
University from a Former Director of Its "Friends of" Offices in Los
Angeles
To:Prof. Rivka Carmi, President,
Ben Gurion Univ. of the
Negev,
Beer Sheva, Israel
And
To all supporters of Israel
(in spite of its numerous and admitted imperfections)
And
To all lovers of BGU, and true believers in responsible Freedoms of
academic & civil expression!
This email is for
your information and mass-distribution-Thanks.
Shalom Prof. Rivka
Carmi:
Enough is
enough!
What do Academic
rights & freedoms & Civil-Political Freedoms-of-expression in any
Democracy have to do with lecturing for 10 solid years, (as Neve
Gordon has been doing diligently with impunity and with the Univ.
support & Rivka Carmi's support), specifically calling- lecturing
for the delegitimization and demonization of Israel's, thus directly
undermining its very existence???
How many thousands
of Jewish & non-Jewish BGU students has Neve Cordon brainwashed to
detest & hate Israel over the last 10 years???
If any Arab or
Muslim Professor, anywhere in the 57 Muslim nation-states in the
world, (or within any school in Gaza or west bank PA colleges),
especially within the 22 States of the Arab-League, or especially in
Saudi Arabia or Syria or Iran in particular, would dare to criticize
or demonize their respective governments, they would surely be fired
after 1-2 such lectures, be jailed and would have been executed by
public beheading or hanging, shortly thereafter. Wouldn't they Rivka
Carmi? Even today, especially today under the Hamas and Fatah
iron-fisted dictatorships?!
Our L.A.
Task-Force, now growing nationally & rapidly thanks to the reach &
speed of the internet, is advising specifically all the Ben
Gurion Univ. supporters in America & Canada to contact BGU & AABGU
and let them know that they will NOT continue to financially support
BGU if it harbors anti-Zionist & anti Israeli professors, that are
rewarded and permitted to condemn the State of Israel in the
classrooms & lecture Halls.
To Enlighten
you Prof. Carmi:
Ariel University is the newest university in Israel. There is an
Israeli flag in every classroom and all students, even Arab students
must complete 10% of their course work in Jewish History or Jewish
Heritage – this promotes pride in the country you live in – not
agreement on every issue, but you must have some love and caring of
the country you live in. Israel in-spite of all the liberal-leftist
rhetoric, is still the only Democracy in the Middle East and you are
allowed to leave if you do not like it.
It is one thing to
legitimately criticize and question one's government policies and
behavior in the press and thru the Ballot Box as well as in public
demonstrations. It is however a straight-forward insanity to exploit
any academic setting in order to spread & preach hatred of Israel
and thus intellectually/practically seeking its demise.
Please forward
this message to BGU, to all AABGU membership and to all Jewish
community organizations in the United States & Canada.
Sent to:
Professor Rivkah
Carmi - president@bgu.ac.il
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva 84105
Tel. 07-4611111
Fax 07-237682
Web.
http://www.bgu.ac.il
Yes, I did send
similar emails in the past, but I am so angered by BGU's silence &
in-action, that I need you all to help and deluge BGU and the AABGU
and its international officers with this outrageous information.
Some of us met
with Prof. Rivkah Carmi a few months ago at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
in Los Angeles. She looked us straight in the eyes and told us that
Neve Gordon would be side-lined or monitored or disciplined.
However, thus far nothing happened to stop this insane
ideological-educational sabotage against Israel within the
magnificent campus of BGU. This makes President Carmi of BGU a
hypocrite and a liar!
Up to now, Neve
Gordon had been merely a "lecturer" but he was recently promoted to
"Assistant Professor", ultimately he is rewarded by becoming the
Dean of the Dept. of Political & Government Sciences??? For what?
For an undistinguished academic, whose writings tend toward
hysterical anti-Israel propaganda, how did they justify it?
Officials assembled a panel of far-leftist evaluators, who requested
letters from other far-leftist anti-Israel radicals, and that did
it. Like promotes like.
With such
Professors blossoming on Israeli Universities campuses, who needs
enemies like Achmadinejad? With professors like Neve Gordon, who
needs to read the "Charters" and the "Covenants" of the PLO? Fatah?
Hamas? and the Hezbullah, that not only do not recognize Israel and
its very rights to exist, but specifically call for Israel's
destruction??? Does Neve Gordon teach his students about 1,000,000
Jewish Refugees from the Arab countries & from Iran that Israel
fully absorbed since 1948???
I am astonished,
disappointed, enraged and heartbroken,
Sincerely,
Yitzchak (Yitz) Dekel, M.A.
(Former Dir. of AABGU in Los Angeles & West Coast region, 1982-1987)
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