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Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv University is determined to out-treason Ben Gurion University. THAT is the only possible explanation for the fact that the University will be hosting "Nakba Day" events on the campus this year, in which Israel's creation and existence will be mourned.
The story first broke in Haaretz' business
supplement "Marker," and
even the Haaretz reporter in that
piece denounced the university for
the idiocy of holding anti-Israel "Nakba"
ceremonies, and called on the
officials of Tel Aviv University to cancel them The main mourning ceremony will be held on the campus mall. It has been approved by the Tel Aviv University Dean of Students, although many TAU students are reportedly outraged. It has been announced that an "alternative Yizkor" prayer will be said by the communist atheists and Islamofascists organizing the event. On behalf of all the "Palestinians" who died in the attempt by the Arabs to conduct genocidal ethnic cleansing of Jews in 1948-49. While a growing number of Western universities prohibit holding such events on campus facilities because of the fact that "Nakba" events are nakedly anti-Semitic and pro-terror, Tel Aviv University has no such scruples. The initiative for the event is by the Israeli (predominantly Arab) communist party and several small anti-Semitic far-leftist groups funded by foreign anti-Semites. The university's decision to allow the event is an open violation of the "Anti-Nakba" law passed last year by the Knesset. So Tel Aviv University will be flouting the rule of law of the very same Knesset that pays 75% of its operating expenses. The university is supposedly conditioning holding the event on the organizers ponying up money to cover the cost of security. But then the far-leftist anti-democratic "Israel Association for Civil Rights" got involved and denounced the university for this. This is the same Association that has never had a single word to say about the suppression of freedom of speech for Rightists, Kahanists, settlers and Rabbis.
And it is also not the first time the
university campus has been
turned over to the Israeli communist
party for purposes of holding
party events. See this: An incredibly large number of Tel Aviv University professors, including much of its history department, are members of the communist party. Try to imagine a group of students at an American university asking to hold rallies with large swastikas to protest the inhumane aggression of the United States against Nazi Germany in 1944, and devoted to mourning the victory of the US over Hitler. Then imagine how the rest of the campus and the community would take matters into hand to deal with such "protesters." Can't imagine that? Ok, so try this. Imagine a group of Kahanist students requesting the same Dean of Students and the same officials at Tel Aviv University to hold a "Population Transfer Day" rally calling for expulsion and wholesale deportation of Arabs from Israeli territories. The university would of course lock the campus gates to prevent it from being held, and perhaps bring in thousands of security people to prevent it from taking place. The officials would prosecute the organizers for "racism," would expel them and toss their behinds out of their dorm rooms faster than you can say Jiminy Cricket. Tel Aviv University in the past has even prevented controversial "right-wing" speakers from speaking on campus.
The university, as usual, as palming all
this off as "academic
freedom" and protected speech. But
TAU has a long history of
selective protection of freedom of speech. When the TAU student
union put up an exhibit
protesting human rights abuses in
China, the
university officials ordered it shut
down lest it offend the Chinese
diplomats in Tel Aviv (see
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n Recall the petition of far-leftist professors at Tel Aviv University who demanded that a woman army colonel be barred from teaching in the campus law school because the leftists dislike her opinions and army record? "Freedom of speech" at Tel Aviv University conforms to those in the Stalinist Soviet era. And the Likud government, with its new lease on life thanks to its deal with Mofaz and Kadima, has done nothing at all to de-fund the scofflaws and make Tel Aviv University pay a price for its behavior.
See this news report on TAU's Nakba Day
decision: Want to demand that Tel Aviv University be de-funded?
Write to The Council for Higher Education
in Israel
Other names and emails of Council
members can be obtained here: Send copies of your request to:
American Friends Offices of Tel Aviv
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