Tel Aviv University
Special Isracampus Report
Tel Aviv University's Daniel Bar-Tal (Dept of Education) is
Collaborator with Norway's leading Neo-Nazi
by Steven Plaut
6/5/2012
Johan Galtung is the Norwegian Marxist
sociologist and anti-Semitic moonbat who was in the headlines
recently. Marxist sociologists are the lowest life-form on the
planet, considerably inferior to bacteria. Galtung hates America and
"capitalism" and is a self-proclaimed admirer of Castro. He also
claims that "Zionists" were behind the massacre of Norwegian
teenagers carried out last year by the deranged Norwegian Neo-Nazi
Anders Breivik. Galtung claims the Israeli Mossad was behind the
massacre. His evidence? Jews are bloodthirsty murderers and the
Norwegian Neo-Nazi was a bloodthirsty murderer, so obviously there
must be a connection!
Galtung also insists that the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion is a true historic documentation of the global Jewish
cabal. He is so openly anti-Semitic that even Haaretz, the
Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, came out with a strong
denunciation of Galtung, which you can read in English here:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/pioneer-of-global-peace-studies-hints-at-link-between-norway-massacre-and-mossad-1.427385.
Galtung also claims that Jews control the world's media. In short,
Galtung is the worst Nazi and worst anti-Semite to emerge from
Norway since Quisling, and might even be worse than Quisling.
Now as it turns out, the Nazi Galtung has
carried on a long-term collaboration with one of the worst Jewish
haters of Israel inside Israeli academia.
Daniel Bar-Tal is an "expert" in "peace
education" (meaning leftist indoctrination) at Tel Aviv University
in the Department of Educational Psychology. Bar-Tal is a radical
Marxist anti-Zionist who insists that the real obstacle to ending
the Middle East conflict is Zionism (see this expose of him:
http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Alon%20Ben%20Shaul%20-%20Daniel%20Bar-Tal.htm).
This may be the best representative citation of
his views:
'Holding such a Zionist narrative serves as an obstacle to peace
since it promotes negative emotions, mistrust, de-legitimization and
negative stereotypes of Arabs and Palestinians.'
From
Article Press Release – Columbia University (Internet) April 6, 2009
Bar-Tal is radically anti-democratic and has
issued calls for the suppression and silencing of critics of the
anti-Israel Left in Israel (see
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=175810).
He is best known for churning out anti-Jewish propaganda for UN
agencies and similar outfits, in particular in his screeds falsely
claiming that Israeli textbooks are "racist" and portray Arabs in a
negative way (see
http://www.meforum.org/805/stereotypes-and-prejudice-in-conflict
and
http://www.meforum.org/3072/israel-extremist-professors). He has
never had much interest in Palestinian textbooks that portray Jews
pretty much the same way they were portrayed in Nazi Germany. He
yearns to see Israel defeated (http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/TAU%20-%20Daniel%20Bar-Tal%20-%20celebrates%20loss%20of%20will.htm)
He is so openly anti-Israel that Tikkun sometimes runs his screeds (http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/TAU%20-%20Daniel%20Bar-Tal%20-%20conveniently%20omits.htm).
As you can see on this web page, Bar-Tal and
Galtung collaborated on a "panel" sponsored by the so-called
"Palestine Israel-Journal," an anti-Israel "journal" run by
Palestinian terrorists and some leftist Israeli Jewish fellow
travelers. The web page is at
http://www.pij.org/ddetails.php?id=22. At the same event Tel
Aviv University's Amal Jamal spoke, a radical anti-Israel extremist
Druse (see
http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/TAU%20-%20Amal%20Jamal%20-%20Rejects%20Bible%20and%20Zionist%20narrative.htm)
– he has since then served as the head of the political science
department at Tel Aviv University. This does not appear to be the
only collaboration between the two anti-Semites. There are
references to other collaborations in the internet. Bar-Tal and
Galtung are both considered leading lights in "peace education,"
that pseudo-discipline in which students in education schools are
subjected to North Korean style re-education into the Left's radical
ideology. The duo like to cite one another (for example,
http://tau.ac.il/~daniel/pdf/13.pdf), sometimes contribute
essays to the same volumes, and Galtung's "writings" are assigned by
Bar-Tal to his students in his classes.
Galtung did not suddenly become an anti-Semite
this year. In a 1971 article "The Middle East and Theory of
Conflict, published in his flagship Journal of Peace Research,
Galtung stated, "Israel was conceived in sin, born in sin and
grew up in sin." He described the Balfour Declaration (and the UN
Partition Proposal) as one of "the most tragic mistakes of recent
history," and he blamed Israel for starting and perpetuating the
conflict. Galtung has been churning out anti-Semitic diatribes for
decades, but this has never troubled his collaborator Daniel Bar-Tal
much. Curiously, Bar-Tal's choice of chums and collaborators also
does not seem to trouble Tel Aviv University officials much either.
Want to ask them why? You can complain to:
American Friends Offices of Tel
Aviv University:
http://www.aftau.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_contact
Other "Friends of" Groups:
http://www.tau.ac.il/friends-eng.html
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