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Maariv June 23, 2012 reports ( http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/380/004.html) that Ben Gurion University's cabbagehead president Rivka Carmi has just announced that the university lost a multi-million dollar contribution that was intended for development of the university library and other infrastructure investment because the donor was outraged at the treasonous activities being conducted by Neve Gordon, a lecturer in political science at the University, including his open calls for world boycotts of Israel. According to the story in Maariv, the donor conditioned his or her contribution on Gordon being dismissed. Carmi refused to initiate dismissal proceedings against Gordon. Carmi claims there is no "legal basis" for firing Gordon. She failed to note the academic basis for doing so, namely, that Gordon's "academic record" consists largely of Bash-Israel hate propaganda. She also failed to note that Gordon's track record of law breaking, including his illegal interference with the IDF's anti-terror operations, is itself sufficient legal justification for his being fired.

In an interview with Maariv, Carmi discussed the stigma that has been attached to Ben Gurion University as being a center for anti-Israel radicalism and sedition. She expressed sorrow that this has become Ben Gurion University's public image. She noted that the leftist extremists are "a very small group," failing to note that every single member of the politics department is a radical leftist, and other departments at the university are not much less extremist.

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