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Editorial ArticleBar Ilan University - Ultra-Moonbette Ariella Azoulay denied tenure at Bar Ilanby Steven Plaut, University of Haifa She was in the philosophy department, expert in hermeneutics - whatever that is, and active in the Israel-is-Nakba, destroy-Israel movement (http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=674), a member in the anti-Israel organization ZOCHROT, the Arab nationalist organization Adalah, and the anarcho-fascist Alternative Information Center (http://www.alternativenews.org/content/blogcategory/114/115/). She was active in the Boycott-Israel movement (see here) and in the treasonous Gush Shalom organization directed by Uri Avnery. She was active in promoting a "right of return" for Palestinians to Israel and a "One-State Solution" in which Israel would cease to exist and the Israeli Jews would become dhimmis in an Islamic Arab state. Other expressions
of her leftism: Most of her academic work was on the philosophy of photography. I think it should better be called Kodakeutics than hermeneutics, which sounds like a naked middle aged guy named Herman. Let us be clear - she was not evicted because of her extremist politics but because she is a laughingstock of a "scholar." But that is what makes this newsworthy. AT any other university, including my own, someone like her would have sailed through to tenure, all on the BASIS of her "sensitive progressive political ideology." She has essentially an empty academic publishing record (I found one paper in a French journal). It is only at Bar Ilan that being a leftist is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition to getting tenure! Since a write-in campaign is being organized by the usual tenured leftists to pressure Bar Ilan into reversing their decision, you might want to write the heads of Bar Ilan to express your support and gratitude for this brave decision. Write to ======================================== Op-Ed articles appearing on IsraCampus.Org.il are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the opinion of IsraCampus.Org.il
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