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Well, let us introduce you to Dr. Eyal Nir, who teaches chemistry at BGU, at least when he is not busy as an activist in the HADASH Stalinist Party and other anti-Israel groups. Over the weekend, the YNET news web site, run by Israel's largest daily Yediot Ahronot, reported that Nir issued a call for murdering Israelis who fail to support his far-leftist communist political positions. Specifically, he called for the breaking of the necks of Israelis who march with Israeli flags and support the right of Jews to live in neighborhoods of East Jerusalem where Stalinists like Nir think that Jews do not belong.

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The "theory" that "incitement" produces murder has been embraced by all of the Israeli media and by almost all of the political establishment. … Preventing "incitement" that will cause violence is the figleaf of the leftists in the Attorney General's office when they harass, interrogate, and arrest rabbis and activists who express opinions of which leftists disapprove. … But the crusade of the Israeli establishment against freedom of speech and "incitement" has never extended to incitement to murder by leftists. Not a single leftist has ever been jailed for expressing approval of terrorism, of murders against Jews, or for endorsing anti-Semitic groups, ideas or positions.

http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2011/06/ben-gurion-university-leftist-lecturer.html

Ben Gurion University leftist Lecturer calls for Murder!

Posted by Steven Plaut
Sunday, June 12, 2011

You may think that you already have heard everything about tenured treason at Ben Gurion University, but I doubt even you are prepared for the leftist faculty member at BGU who just came out with a call for the murder of Israelis who do not agree with his leftwing politics.

For months the cabbagehead president of Ben Gurion University, Rivka Carmi, has been telling everyone and anyone willing to listen that there are no tenured traitors at all at her university besides Neve Gordon (SHE calls him a traitor!). She insists she is unaware of any problem at her university besides Gordon. She has never heard of the scores of other anti-Israel extremists on the faculty of her university. She does not know about any of the BGU faculty cheering on Hamas terror, cheering on the Qassam rockets fired into the Negev by the terrorists, denouncing Israel as a fascist apartheid regime, nor about the many BGU faculty supporting the "BDS" (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement of economic aggression against Israel. She does not know about BGU faculty members who have called for Israel to be annihilated. She does not know about BGU faculty members who penalize and harass students when they fail to toe the anti-Israel ideological mark of their professors. She does not know about entire departments at BGU in which non-leftists and Zionists may not teach. She does not know about indoctrination courses, where the entire course consists of anti-Israel propaganda. She cannot find any one-sided anti-Israel propaganda on campus either. She does not know about BGU faculty who have gotten hired and promoted and tenured on the basis of churning out anti-Israel hate propaganda. There are no problems at all at BGU, insists Madame Cabbagehead, other than Little Neve.

I attach the entire news report in English below.

Now for nearly two decades, ever since the Rabin assassination, Israelis have been subjected to a totalitarian indoctrination of an anti-democratic "theory" about that assassination, holding that the exercise of freedom of speech by Right-wingers caused Rabin's death. Because those Right-wingers opposed Rabin's "peace" policies and did so loudly and impolitely, their "incitement" caused the murder. The "theory" that "incitement" produces murder has been embraced by all of the Israeli media and by almost all of the political establishment. Even Likud leaders mouth their belief in it.

Preventing "incitement" that will cause violence is the figleaf of the leftists in the Attorney General's office when they harass, interrogate, and arrest rabbis and activists who express opinions of which leftists disapprove. It goes without saying that anyone expressing support for Kahanist ideas can expect to be arrested. Israelis have been arrested for having politically incorrect bumper stickers on their cars or on their tee shirts.

But the crusade of the Israeli establishment against freedom of speech and "incitement" has never extended to incitement to murder by leftists. Not a single leftist has ever been jailed for expressing approval of terrorism, of murders against Jews, or for endorsing anti-Semitic groups, ideas or positions. Just a few days ago, an old-time communist named Gideon Spiro was briefly arrested after he wrote an article cheering on Arab terrorist murders of Jews. He was released immediately and will not be prosecuted. Rabbis and their wives who have expressed the opinion that Jewish single women should date Jewish men and not Arabs have been harassed and interrogated for "racist incitement."

And so the Israeli dual justice system muddles along. Will Nir be fired by Rivka Carmi for calling for murder? Will he be prosecuted? You jest! If he had said that he believed that Rabin's policies were responsible for the thousands of "Oslo" dead, he might well be fired and indicted. If he had expressed disapproval of children being raised by homosexual couples we KNOW that Rivka Carmi would have him fired!

Last year, Neve Gordon claimed that he received an anonymous "death threat" letter. At the time, we pointed out reasons for suspecting that the letter, written in a child's hand, was bogus and possibly a fabrication by Gordon himself. The heads of Ben Gurion University, however, insisted that they took the "threat" literally and seriously (see this and this). Will those same university officials who treated the supposed "threat" against Gordon as something real now take action against the Doctor of Murder from their chemistry department? Will they continue to insist that the enjoyment of freedom of speech and academic freedom should be restricted to far-leftist anti-Israel extremists and denied to those who criticize tenured extremists?

Here is the full report:

Lecturer: Break rightists' necks
Doctor of Chemistry writes Facebook status calling Jerusalem Day marchers 'gangs of bandits'

Ilana Curiel

A lecturer at Ben Gurion University has issued a Facebook call for violence against right-wing activists who marched through the capital with flags on Jerusalem Day, urging people to "break their necks".

"I call on the world to come and help break these scoundrels' necks," Eyal Nir, a doctor of Chemistry known as a left-wing activist, wrote on the social networking site. He described the rightists as "gangs of bandits swarming in our country".

But his status invited a deluge of negative responses. "What gross incitement from a university 'lecturer'," one wrote.

"And what hypocrisy. Imagine a lecturer at Bar-Ilan saying all leftists should have their necks broken. He'd be out of there before he could press 'send'."

"It's incitement to violence and a criminal violation," wrote another Facebook user. "I guess incitement is only criminal when it comes from the Right."

Dr. Nir also linked an article about the arrest of a left-wing protester on suspicion of incitement and called for "the removal of the mask of liberalism from Israel's Zionist, occupying, settling, and wild face."

In response to the comments he received on his posts, Dr. Nir says he believes it was warranted.

"During the Jerusalem Day march a gang of a few dozen bullies walked through the city's Arab streets calling death to Arabs, death to leftists, burn their villages," he wrote.

"I believe that the response of any reasonable, peaceful and just individual should be that they must be prevented from acting out their threats such as in terrorist activities dubbed 'price tag'. I believe my cry for stopping them is reasonable, and actually the silence from society and the Israeli system in the face of this incitement to terrorism and terror itself is what should be written about in the papers."