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Ben Gurion UniversityMeet Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi's latest little darling, Eyal Nir (Dept of Chemistry)Remember this is a tenured faculty member at Ben Gurion University! Among his many bon mots there are these: Doc Jihad also likes to call everyone with whom he disagrees, notably the Im Tirtzu Zionist student organization, "Skinheads." Think Israel has the right to exist? You are a skinhead! He refers to all of Israel as the skinhead nation. He uses "stormtrooper" as a synonym for Zionist.
http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2011/06/meet-ben-gurion-universitys-doc-jihad.html Meet Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi's latest little darling, Eyal Nir (Dept of Chemistry) June 19, 2011 Ben Gurion University, or - as some are calling it – Ben Gurion "University," has now outdone itself. It has produced a character who makes Norman Finkelstein and Neve Gordon look like patriotic Zionists and truly rational people. Ben Gurion University is now making the transition from tenured treason to tenured ultra-treason. A few days ago we told you about the rantings of one Dr. Eyal Nir, who teaches chemistry at BGU. He had issued a public call through his web site to murder Israelis who disagree with the Far Left, demanding that they have their necks broken. Nir is active in numerous anti-Israel groups, including the Israeli Communist Party. But it turns out that his call for murder was
milquetoast! Over the weekend, Makor Rishon ran an expose of the
good Doc's other rantings, many taken directly from his Facebook
site. (Curiously, that site has been taken down today: Remember this is a tenured faculty member at Ben Gurion University! Among his many bon mots there are these: Doc Jihad also likes to call everyone with whom he disagrees, notably the Im Tirtzu Zionist student organization, "Skinheads." Think Israel has the right to exist? You are a skinhead! He refers to all of Israel as the skinhead nation. He uses "stormtrooper" as a synonym for Zionist. He attacks assorted public figures by name, including military and police, and calls them serial murderers and those who cannibalize Arabs. The moving of some Jewish families into the Simon the Righteous neighborhood of Jerusalem or into certain parts of the Negev that have a Bedouin majority are described by Doc Jihad as "ethnic cleansing." Preventing them from so moving to keep those areas judenrein would be the highest form of democratic pluralism. He accuses "settlers" of being murderers because their behavior causes Arab terrorists to murder the settlers themselves. Really. He suggested that Lag B'Omer would be a good time to burn down and destroy the shrine of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. He agrees with the claim that reports of centuries of persecution of Jews are all a Zionist hoax invented to excuse the Zionist oppression of Palestinians. Cabbagehead Rivka Carmi, the President of BGU, when asked about Doc Jihad, came up with her usual lame clichés about how she disagrees with the content of what he is saying but of course defends his "academic freedom" to do what he does and say what he says. Curiously, she did not care to explain her claim from just a few weeks back, when she insisted that Neve Gordon is the only anti-Israel fanatic on the BGU faculty and that besides him BGU has no other such problematic people. Meanwhile, I do not know what Nir's credentials are and could not evaluate a chemist's credentials if I saw them. But it is well known that in other departments at BGU, radical anti-Israel extremists get hired and promoted entirely thanks to their extremism, thanks to their churning out anti-Israel hate propaganda. They are not hired in SPITE of their treasonous activities but rather often explicitly thanks to those! They are hired and promoted as acts of solidarity by other leftists in the system even when they have empty or near-empty academic publication records. In Nir's case, I have no idea if this is also so. However, here is a thought for Cabbagehead Carmi: Eyal Nir is a chemist. How exactly do you officials at BGU know that he is not utilizing the chemistry infrastructure at BGU to prepare chemical weapons and turn them over to his jihad mates? Have you ever thought about checking this possibility out? There is a petition here to fire Eyal:
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