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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)