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Most architects spend their careers building structures that help society. But “expert in the history of architecture” Dr. Diana Dolev, formerly of Hebrew University and now a instructor of Architecture and Planning at Holon Institute of Technology, doesn’t concentrate on building things to benefit Israeli or western society. No, In general, what she does is try to tear down democratic Israel’s defenses and even helps Israel’s enemies to do so. Dolev, who claims she is fifth generation Israeli, holds a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture and teaches at Holon about the “militarizing” of architecture in Israel, an extension of her PhD about the “militarizing” of the buildings at the Hebrew University campus in Jerusalem where she earned her degree. However, Dolev’s claim to fame is not architecture; when people speak of Professor or Dr. Dolev, they do it in context of her being involved primarily with the radical group New Profile and how she speaks at their outreach educational programs worldwide as an “academic.”

New Profile, is a radical organization who mask themselves as “feminists ” and was just raided by the Israeli police authorities for violating the law about encouraging people on how to lie and evade military service. By masking I mean that “feminism” among the New Profile elite consists of numerous lesbian liaisons such as promoted by New Profile leaders like Dalit Baum. Decidedly communist/anarchist in their outlook (New Profile made its presence known at the World Social Forum), their charter of course blames Israel for all its “wars of choice,” an odd description of wars in which the Arabs continually mentioned driving the Jews into the sea. Anti-Zionism dating back to Stalinism rules the day at New Profile as its membership seek to hurt the Jewish state. One of their draft “resisters,” an 18 year-old high school girl, is shown smiling broadly in a photograph where she wears a North Korean or Chinese communist fatigue hat emblazoned with the Red Star. The Communist/Stalinist platform of smashing the Jewish state is the real New Profile aim, while the sloganeering about peace and alternative ways to stop fighting the Arabs are in true anti-Semitic communist fashion euphemized as “peace activism” by Arabs and Israel’s communist left as being merely “anti-Zionism” or “anti-war.”

Or in Diana Dolev’s case, as “anti-militarism.”

Of course, Diana Dolev is another example how the Israeli taxpayer unwittingly doles out sinecures for whacko subversives and traitors who, once they get tenure and an office, can then spend most of their time working diligently to bring down the Jewish state by organizing groups like New Profile. It could be said that as New Profile’s spokesperson, Dolev’s main themes, are “peace” and “feminism”, but Dolev uses these words only to mask her attacking the Zionist state. The IDF, of course, protects that state. It is fitting then that Dolev, who has been an activist against the Israeli state and affiliated with communist and movements against Israel even since before both Intifadas and Oslo, began attacking the Jewish homeland in 1971 when she was aligned with the Ban the Bomb movement in Europe while still a student at the University of London. Even back then, cynical cries for “peace” and alternative ways of placing blame on the democratic countries of the world were a Soviet propaganda ploy to disarm the West during the Cold War. As one of those radicals even starting back then, Dolev later became one of the original co-founders of Women in Black and continued her anti-Israel diatribes against Israeli “militarism” from 1980 onward.

Today, she tours abroad, not as an architect, but most notably as a mouthpiece for the International Solidarity Movement talking anywhere she can to attack Israel and present a false image of the state as another apartheid South Africa. This includes doing so in Christian churches, colleges and anywhere else the ISM can find an ear in the US and abroad in the EU, not just inside Israel where she works with the ISM’s organizational front at the Alternative Information Center. She doesn’t just encourage draft dodging, but boycotting Israel, releasing terrorist murders and just about anything else that is against Israel’s need for survival in a hostile world.

Back home Dolev works with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and strives to accuse Israel of atrocities against innocent Arabs. In particular she devotes considerable time defending the Arabs in Gaza from what she again defines as “atrocities” committed by the Israeli government and joined in anti-Israel hand wringing claiming the IDF committed “war crimes” in Gaza while ignoring missiles fired on Sderot. The ACRI holds fundraisers along with the New Israel Fund in the US where they invite Jews to think they are promoting democracy in Israel, when they are in fact enabling the Arabs to undermine Israeli self-defense and morale back home. NIF funded radicals in Israel to pass out flyers and pay salaries to IDF soldiers who would desert the army (An act no doubt near and dear to Dolev’s heart since IDF draftees receive no pay while serving and NIF pays them a stipend to sit in jail). Dolev’s constant target is the IDF. She encourages her students and Israeli youth to avoid military service and allies herself with ISM-affiliated radicals in the US who practice the same propaganda against the US military in Iraq because of Ba’ath Party links to the PLO.

Somehow, refusing to serve or protect one’s fellow citizens falls into the classification of “feminism” for Dolev and her peers in New Profile. Militarism is equated with “masculinity,’ something Dolev and her fellow members of New Profile also emphasize is counterproductive to the Israeli society.

The fact that Dolev ignores the reality of what Israel faces makes her a particularly odious individual; she is the Israeli Tokyo Rose abroad. In an interview in the Jerusalem Post about the government’s raid on New Profile she makes the statement that “Our leaders do not explore all of the other possibilities before deciding to go to war.”

Hunh? With Oslo, Israel gave a license to the PLO (that then murdered thousands of Israelis) to create a state on half the land under Israeli control. With the Disengagement, Israel deported over 8,000 Jews from homes built on uninhabited sand dunes (the only other such intentional deportations of Jews were done by the Nazis and the Russians). We all know the results of the Disengagement on the communities in the Negev, something Dolev never refers to or even objects to in her lectures about Israel’s “atrocities” in Gaza that she gives at American universities, churches and elsewhere. Israel built nine universities for Arabs, has equal rights for Arab citizens, and even affirmative action programs for Arab citizens, yet Dolev wants the West to believe otherwise. Israel has always provided free medical care even to Arabs from hostile neighbor countries as a goodwill gesture. Israel gave control over the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf in 1967 that forbids Jews to pray there. And Israel’s leadership does all this to avoid war and even violence at almost any cost. Meanwhile, Arab TV shows, even for children, exhort for war to annihilate the Jews.

Clearly someone who would still make a statement that Israel’s leaders do not explore alternative options to going to war is either crazy or a liar. In Diana Dolev’s case, she may be both, but she is also an opportunist. In the JPost interview she began by claiming she was not a pacifist so readers might think her just a rational woman seeking “peace”. She defines the military in Israel as indicative of “fascism” and refuses to distinguish between a professional army such as is found in dictatorships to prop up the dictator as opposed to Israel’s citizen army, an army where the equality of women in the armed forces is the real feminism, not like the effete self-serving homosexual women in New Profile seeking to represent what they consider the feminist norm by embracing Israel’s mortal enemies. By the end of the same interview she then says she is a pacifist. What is clear, is Diana Dolev will say anything to be the center of attention and to blame Israel as the cause for war with the Arabs. This nets her media attention, trips abroad and notoriety among her radical leftist/anarchist/communist peers. It does nothing to advance the cause of peace or security for the Jewish state.

“We have to look into this a little bit deeper,” she continues, “and we will find out that for different reasons OUR LEADERS WANTED WAR or they were NEVER ABLE TO THINK ABOUT CONFLICTS OTHER THAN WAR and the FORCE OF OUR ARMY [emphasis added by this writer].” She then claimed that Lebanon never went to war against Israel (it did so in 1948 and allowed attacks from its soil later) and that Syria doesn’t dare go to war (could that be because of Israel’s military that she so detests? After all, the Syrians do provide headquarters for Hamas and Islamic Jihad). “So what are we really talking about? Iran?” Then she laughs. “ I Think Israel should simply leave them alone,” she concludes.

Dolev can preach this until the cows come home because she also knows the rest of Israeli society, particularly its women, wants to survive so will have its sons protect Israel and even Israelis like Dolev. She can take satisfaction though that as she travels, she gets notoriety and even some money all the while telling Israel’s young people to draft dodge and by her giving morale boosters to Hamas against the IDF.

So, let’s recap: According to Diana Dolev, Israel’s wars, declared by the Arab Nation and Islamist expansionists are to be met how? With lesbian trysts and definitions of feminism held at New Profile gatherings and by dismantling the IDF and opposing its influence on Israeli society? Hmmmm…Or perhaps with Jews marching again to the gas chambers this time run by Arabs or Iranians? This woman is unreal, and would be laughed off any dais were she not passing herself off as an “Israeli academic” to other fuzzy-headed leftists on our campuses and at other venues around the world.

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