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Anti-Israel Activities of Israeli Academics
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IAM supports the universal tradition of academic freedom that is an indispensable characteristic of higher education in Israel. At the same time, it is concerned by the activities of a small group of academics--sometimes described as revisionist historians or post-Zionists, among other labels--who go beyond the “free search for truth and its free exposition” (to quote the American Association of University Professors) that is the hallmark of academic freedom. Exploiting the prestige (and security) of their positions, such individuals often propound unsubstantiated and, frequently, demonstrably false arguments that defame Israel and call into question its right to existence.
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| 03.08.10 |
| Israel Academia Monitor Friday Special |
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| כך חשפתי את חתרני השמאל * מי באמת דואג לאקדמיה? * Is it only McCarthyism? * תוכנית רדיו * Racist Universities? * |
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| 02.09.10 |
| Haifa professors slam lecturers' boycott |
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New Haifa University rector, his predecessor speak out against their colleagues' endorsement of artists' boycott of city located beyond Green Line. 'Some Israeli academics live in glass houses, shattering the basis for their existence,' one professor says
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01.09.10
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| דני קושמרו מחדשות ערוץ 2 - כתבה על אנשי אקדמיה ופעילים מהשמאל קיצוני שקוראים לחרם נגד ישראל |
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In Hebrew only, TV channel 2 reporter Dani Kushmaro on academics and other activists calling for boycott against Israel: Weizmann Institute's Kobi Snitz, Hebrew University's Emmanuel Farjoun, Ex-Sapir College's, now in London, Haim Bresheeth and others. Must Watch
חרם עלינו. "אמנים כמו גיל סקוט הרון, כמו הפיקסיז, כמו אלטון ג'ון , כמו אחרים", מסביר אחד ממקימי הקבוצה, קובי סניץ, מתמטיקאי מישראל. "כתבתי להם מכתבים. מדובר בחרם תרבותי ואקדמי, וספורט, וכלכלי. משחק של נבחרת ישראל - בהחלט יש פה אירוע שהוא בר החרמה".
גם פרופ' עמנואל פרג'ון, מהחוג למתמטיקה של האוניברסיטה העברית, אומר את אותם הדברים: "ישראל יש לה היסטוריה טובה של כניעה ללחצים בינלאומיים. הדבר האפקטיבי ביותר והיעיל ביותר שיגרום לכך שהאפרטהייד פה ייפסק, שמשטר העבדות פה ייפסק, הוא לחץ בינלאומי אפקטיבי".
פרופסור חיים בראשית, ישראלי, מרצה באוניברסיטת מזרח לונדון, הוא אחד הדוברים הבולטים של השמאל הרדיקלי בבריטניה. "אנחנו כמובן מדברים הרבה בפגישות שונות בבריטניה, בצפון אמריקה ובאירופה", הוא אומר. "ישראל מזיקה לעצמה, מזיקה לסביבה שלה, מזיקה לשלום האפשרי כבר ממזמן".
פרופ' בראשית מנהל אתר שמרכז אינפורמציה על מה שהוא מכנה "הטבח בעזה", ובו גם קריקטורות כאלה, של ראש הממשלה שמוצג שם כפיראט צמא דם. "תראה, יש הרבה ועידות בישראל שמזמינים אנשים מחוץ לארץ. פסטיבלים של קולנוע שמזמינים קולנוענים, מוזיקאים, הדבר הזה פשוט ייפסק כמו שהוא נפסק בדרום אפריקה", הוא אומר. "דרום אפריקה הפכה להיות מנודה, ישראל הופכת להיות מנודה. אתם חייבים להבין את זה, בייחוד אנשים במדיה, אתם חייבים להבין ממה זה בא, זה בא מהמעשים שלכם".
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| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| 31.08.10 |
| Over 150 faculty members from universities across the country vowed not to lecture in settlements |
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In the academics' letter, released yesterday, over 150 faculty members from universities across the country vowed not to lecture or participate in any discussions in settlements, and voiced support for the theater artists who have said they would refuse to perform in the West Bank city. "We will not take part in any kind of cultural activity beyond the Green Line, take part in discussions and seminars, or lecture in any kind of academic setting in these settlements," the academics wrote.
Signatories of the academic petition included Zeev Sternhell and Yael Sternhell, Nissim Calderon, Anat Biletzki, Ziva Ben-Porat, Yaron Ezrachi, Aeyal Gross, Shlomo Sand, Dan Rabinowitz, Neve Gordon and Oren Yiftachel.
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| 30.08.10 |
| [Hebrew U] Daphna Golan's speech incites Palestinians against Israel at the U.N Question of Palestine Forum, Istanbul |
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Yet in Sheikh Jarrah, Israelis and Palestinians are protesting against the evictions while seeds of partnership between Israelis and Palestinians are beginning to sprout.
Could you help Um Nabil who was evicted from her house in Haifa in 1948, to stop living in fear of second eviction in Sheikh Jarrah? Maybe instead of more UN committees and more UN reports you could help create truth committees that would allow Um Nabil to tell her story of her first eviction from her house in Haifa in 1948, how she settled with other 27 Palestinian families of refugees, in Sheikh Jarrah, and why she thinks that another Jewish settlement at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem will create more tensions and hate in the city.
Like most Palestinians, the people in Sheikh Jarrah who were evicted form their houses, and those who receive eviction orders- are refugees who were displaced from their houses and lands in 1948 when the state of Israel was established.
Israeli law does not recognize the right of Palestinians to sue in a similar manner for the return of their properties which they lost during the 1948 War, in West Jerusalem in particular and in Israel in general.
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| 29.08.10 |
| Neve Gordon "Analysis McCarthy In Israel": Attacks are part of a broader assault on Israeli higher edu and its professors |
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Although the recent scuffle seems to be about academic freedom, the assault on the Israeli academe is actually part of a much wider offensive against liberal values. Numerous forces in Israel are mobilizing in order to press forward an extreme-right political agenda.
They have chosen the universities as their prime target for two main reasons. First, even though Israeli universities as institutions have never condemned any government policy—not least the restrictions on Palestinian universities' academic freedom—they are home to many vocal critics of Israel's rights-abusive policies. Those voices are considered traitorous and consequently in need of being stifled. Joining such attacks are Americans like Alan M. Dershowitz, who in a recent visit to Tel-Aviv University called for the resignations of professors who supported the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli goods and divestment from Israeli companies until the country abides by international human-rights law. He named Rachel Giora and Anat Matar, both tenured professors at Tel Aviv University, as part of that group.
Second, all Israeli universities depend on public funds for about 90 percent of their budget. This has been identified as an Achilles heel. The idea is to exploit the firm alliance those right-wing organizations have with government members and provide the ammunition necessary to make financial support for universities conditional on the dissemination of nationalist thought and the suppression of "subversive ideas."
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| 27.08.10 |
| Haifa University students prepare to rally against leftist teachers יוזמה בחיפה: להחרים מרצים פרו-פלסטינים |
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HAIFA (Ma'an/Agencies) -- Students at Haifa University reportedly prepared a list of "Pro-Palestinian" professors and a group of activists were preparing a boycott campaign targeting their classes and lectures.
Israel's Hebrew Language daily newspaper Ma'ariv said a campaign began on Tuesday, targeting 20 lecturers from the sociology and political science departments who they said "participate in demonstrations against Israeli troops and the Israeli government" or who have publicly spoken out against them.
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| BGU's Jane Leaf, Freedom to give Nazi salute, Hillels, Chronicle, shut down the U's |
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Ben-Gurion University donor: Im Tirtzu are hooligans
תורמת לבן-גוריון: אתרום יותר בגלל "אם תרצו"
Freedom to give Nazi salute
Hillels prepare to answer anti-Israel campus forces
Israeli Professors Protest Calls for Increased Zionism in Teaching
Shut down the universities |
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| Editorial Articles by IAM Associates |
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| 26.08.10 |
| Jerusalem Post: Criticism of academics is not McCarthyism |
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The presentation of factual evidence by concerned citizens about the activities of those who advocate sanctions against their own universities is the diametric opposite of the ideology.
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| 25.08.10 |
| [TAU, MHC] Roy Wagner organizer of the Palestinian Friday demonstrations in Bil'in גם בעברית |
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Dr Roy Wagner, a fellow at The Minerva Humanities Center, writes a weekly email update to fellow activists on the Friday demonstrations of Palestinians in Bil'in, on behalf of Anarchists Against the Wall. He wrote of himself to be in charge of of instructing Israeli and international new demonstrators.
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| 24.08.10 |
| Maariv: Israel Academe Exposed שטיפת מוח אקדמית |
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Israeli universities were not established with the purpose of promoting any Zionist vision of Israel. A call for an academic boycott of Israel or a call to dismiss professors from the left or right is worthy of condemnation.
Yet when respected branches of Israeli academia allow themselves to become tools of an anti-Zionist vision and branches of radical left-wing NGO’s - it is imperative to make that known.The problem arises when the right to publicize and criticize is met with a counter campaign designed to intimidate exposure and criticism, and that is what threatens both freedom of expression and the public discourse.
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| 23.08.10 |
| Abir Baker [U of Haifa] & [Ex-TAU, Central European U] Daniel Monterescu expose the Shabak to Palestine Maan news |
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Religious figures are targeted because the Shabak is guided by the Orientalist assumption that Islamic Movement activists are always nationalist and potentially dangerous,” but in reality, most religious leaders are "pretty docile," only becoming a problem when alienation and anger from the system become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Not only do interviews create a general environment of fear, Monterescu explained, the so called “chats” can have a lasting impact on the interviewees. Some even suffer from depression following a Shabak interview, Monterescu added.
Shabak usually intensifies its activity—putting stress on Palestinian citizens of Israel and the nation's left—during times of political turmoil, and the recent spike in interviews could reflect Israel’s march right. Critics have said that increasing hostility to dissent—on both the state and public level—is a symptom of the erosion of democracy in Israel.
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| 22.08.10 |
| [Hebrew U, History] Moshe Zimmermann for a German-Muslim website: The real anti-Israelis sit in the government |
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| Why has the peace process in the Middle East stagnated? In his new book, Moshe Zimmermann claims that the reason is that the Israelis fear peace more than they fear the state of war. |
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| 20.08.10 |
| IAM Friday Special: לא מחלקים ציונים, McCarthyism in Tel Aviv, Right-wing group threatens BGU, האקדמיה: הקרב על הפוסט-ציונות, אם תרצו דמוקרטיה |
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גילוי דעת: מודעה מטעם המועצה המתאמת של ארגוני הסגל האקדמי באוניברסיטאות בישראל
לא מחלקים ציונים: תגובה לאור הקמפיין שמנהל עיתון 'הארץ' סביב המכון לאסטרטגיה ציונית
McCarthyism in Tel Aviv: Unprecedented attack on academic freedom threatens Israel's entire scientific enterprise
Right-wing group threatens Ben-Gurion University: Right-wing group Im Tirtzu has issued an ultimatum to Israel’s Ben-Gurion University, threatening to drive away donors if it refuses to hire more right-wing professors and alter its curriculum
האקדמיה: הקרב על הפוסט־ציונות: מחקר של תנועת "אם תרצו" מאשים: הטיה אנטי־ציונית במחלקת הממשל בבן גוריון • במכון לאסטרטגיה ציונית טוענים כי המגמה קיימת כמעט בכל האוניברסיטאות • אונ' בן גוריון: "האשמות מקרתיסטיות"
אם תרצו דמוקרטיה: הסערה שפרצה ובצדק בנושא ההטיה הפוליטית באוניברסיטאות לכיוון חד-אג'נדתי, שוטם ישראל, פוסט יהודי, ציוני ודמוקרטי הינה במקומה וחייבת היתה לפרוץ ולהידון כבר מזה זמן רב
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| Israelis in Non-Israeli Universities |
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| 19.08.10 |
| Seminar & book launch: Ilan Pappe on Ronit Lentin's Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Nakba |
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Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: Wednesday, 17 November, 19:00-21:00
Public seminar and book launch: Prof Ilan Pappe, Exeter University Launch of Ronit Lentin, Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba:
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their ‘War of Independence’ and the Palestinians their ‘Nakba’, or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discourse...
Against a background of the Israeli resistance movement, Lentin’s central argument is that co-memorating the Nakba by Israeli Jews is motivated by an unresolved melancholia about the disappearance of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinians, a melancholia that shifts mourning from the lost object to the grieving subject. Lentin theorises Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance, counterpoising co-memorative practices by internally displaced Israeli Palestinians with Israeli Jewish discourses of the Palestinian right of return, and questions whether return narratives by Israeli Jews, courageous as they may seem, are ultimately about Israeli Jewish self-healing rather than justice for Palestine.
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| 18.08.10 |
| Palestinians in Israeli universities: TAU Omar Barghouti, [Haifa U] Yousef Jabareen and [Hebrew U] Kais Nasser |
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| TAU student of Ethics Omar Barghouti's boycott call in the Guardian. [U of Haifa, Law] Dr. Yousef Jabareen and [Hebrew U, Law] Adv. Kais Nasser prepared a document against Israel to the UN. |
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| 17.08.10 |
| Editor of Israel Academia Monitor speaking at Tamar Yonah radio show |
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What is post-Zionism and why does the academic community all over the globe mostly take a pro-Arab stance, going so far as to call Israel an apartheid state? Dana Barnett, editor of the Israel Academia Monitor joins Tamar Yonah and speaks about the left wing slant in academic circles and why professors defy reason and morality and opt for a more politically correct ideology instead.
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| 16.08.10 |
| TAU head to examine 'Post-Zionist' bias allegations * אונת"א בודקת תכני החוג לסוציולוגיה פוסט-ציוניים |
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The president of Tel Aviv University asked to see the lists of reading material taught in several sociology courses at the university last week, in the wake of allegations that Israeli universities have a "post-Zionist" bias in their sociology departments.
The Institute for Zionist Strategies, which issued the report, defines post-Zionism as "the pretense to undermine the foundations of the Zionist ethos and an affinity with the radical leftist stream."
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| 15.08.10 |
| [BGU Chemistry] Eyal Nir arrested with 2 students Mohammad Mahajna & Mohammad Masarna, on interference to police |
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Reported by Palestine Monitor:
2 Palestinians and 1 Israeli have been arrested during a protest which took place on Monday afternoon against the repeated demolitions of the village of Al Arakib in the Nakab-Negev. During the night Israeli authorities demolished the village of Al-Arakib for the third time in two weeks.
Lawyers and activists are currently negotiating the release of 3 men who were arrested for protesting against the states demolitions of a Palestinian village in the North of the Nakab (Negev). Mohammad Mahajna from Um Il Fahim and Mohammad Masarna are both students at Ben Gurion University; Eyal Nir is a teacher at the university located in Beer Sheba.
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| 12.08.10 |
| Gabriel Piterberg and the settler colonialism fallacy at Ben Gurion U 15th Annual Workshop of Middle Eastern Studies |
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But despite the fact that the arguments in favor of Israel being a settler colonial society are very weak since the Jews lacked an imperial metropole, did not enjoy imperial strategic direction or support, and a series of other key elements that are crucial for a situation to be labeled to be settler colonialism, this did not stop Piterberg from using the settler colonialism argument in relations to Israel during his interview with the Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on June 9, 2010. In this interview, Piterberg referred to Israel as “an unresolved settler case in the sense that in the other cases the settlers either succeeded in eliminating the natives or were overcome by the natives and eventually left.” ...But as if Piterberg’s arguments in favor of a connection between Israel and settler colonialism were not problematic enough, he claimed that the Israeli reaction to the Flotilla was based on “absurdities and lies:” that “atrocities were hidden behind a smokescreen that Goebbels would have been proud of.” ...Nevertheless, the most problematic aspect of the interview was the fact that Piterberg has decided to list a series of false reasons in order to call upon people to support BDS. According to Piterberg, because Israel “has been getting away with murder for too long” and “has paid no price” for her actions, it creates a hindrance to a change in Israeli policy. He claimed that Israel is holding “a million and a half people at ransom for no real reason,” that Israel is controlling US policy through its Israel Lobby, that Helen Thomas and other critical reporters have been silenced for “not towing the Zionist line,” that the US was ok with Rachel Corrie’s “murder” because Israel did it, and Israel is utilizing the “persecution complex” in order to manipulate people into supporting Israel.
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| 11.08.10 |
| TAU Gadi Algazi arrested in El Arkib, Negev, on the 10th of Aug, on interference in the execution of court orders |
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The Israeli police arrested Gadi Elgazi after arriving together with members of the movement Tarabut - Hitchabrut to support Bedouins who built illegally in El-Arkib. He was arrested while trying to prevent the police from executing court orders and was released later that evening.
The Bedouins in El Arkib lived in the North of Israel until 8 years ago but due to tribal dispute have moved to the Negev. Land was allocated for them in Rahat but they decided to move to El Arkib without legal rights to the land. The Israeli court ruled the village is built illegally.
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| 10.07.10 |
| Some thoughts on Neve Gordon's "And the state, is she loyal?" today in Haaretz in Hebrew |
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"No Loyalty no citizenship":
"When I heard those shouts I understood I will never be able to accept the distorted perception of loyalty today among the Jewish public in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman are asking that we support a policy concentrating on suppression and humiliation. But I, from my perspective, am not willing to be loyal to suppression of Israel's poor and to humiliation of people who can not bring a slice of bread home. I refuse to give my blessing to imprisonment of one million and a half residents of Gaza and to the land grab in the Negev, the West Bank and Galilee and surely I will not be loyal to mouth shutting and discrimination against Arabs, and the expulsion of Palestinians from Eastern Jerusalem...The worse signs of Proto-Fascism is the fact it is happening on all fronts. Beginning with the attacks of NGO Monitor and "Im Tirtzu" against human rights organizations, through the unrestrained response of the police over the protests in Sheih Jarrah and finally in the McCarthyist atmosphere in the Knesset Education Committee...Similar logic to the one Mussolini used"
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| 09.08.10 |
| [Exeter University, U.K] Ilan Pappe interviewed in Iranian media: 'Israel needs war to exist' |
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A former Israeli lecturer has said the entity depends on wars for its existence, warning that the hostility only invites disaster for Tel Aviv. It is only constant confrontations and standoffs which keep the Israeli society from falling apart, said Ilan Pappe, who used to work as a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa in northern Israel.
He also said that the current Israeli government is the result of a colonialist movement. Colonialists, who did not have a country anywhere across the world, were obliged to remain here.
The Israeli regime, therefore, is constantly seeking to ignite new wars; against Lebanon and maybe soon against Iran, but future wars would not succeed and would instead lead the entity into disaster, he added, speaking to the German daily Junge Welt last month.
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| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| 08.07.10 |
| Anti-Israel 'Times Higher Education' supports boycott of Israel: "Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?" |
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At the front line of the conflict are a handful of academics, such as Rachel Giora, professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University, who support international calls for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
Pointing to “the growing number of Israeli assaults on Palestinians’ cities, towns, villages and refugee camps both within and outside the occupied territories”, as well as events such as the attack on Gaza during the winter of 2008-09 and the deaths on the “Freedom flotilla” in May this year, Professor Giora argued that “the state’s legitimacy has been gradually undermined”, leading to “waves of vocal criticism” across the world.
International condemnation has also created a far less comfortable environment for internal critics, she said, having led to “massive defence tactics aimed particularly at bashing academics supportive of boycott initiatives”.
Professor Giora said: “Repression of protest was no longer implicit. All hell broke loose.”
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| Friday Special: Antisemitism and Introspection, פרופסורים נגד חופש הביטוי, "נו, אז כמה פוסט-ציונים עושים כותרות, הטפה לחרם - וחופש אקדמי |
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* Antisemitism and Introspection / By Robert S. Wistrich
This year, Tisha B'Av (the annual Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem) once again reminded us of the dangers of “gratuitous hatred” without rhyme or reason for one’s fellow Jews; the kind of hatred for its own sake, which seems more recently to have become part of our everyday Israeli reality. Divisions between Ultra-Orthodox and Secular Jews or the bitter antagonism towards the settlers in the West Bank are of course not new, but they have lost nothing of their malevolent edge. No less distressing are the actions of those Israeli lecturers who defend the international anti-Israel boycott in the name of academic freedom and the much larger numbers of those who denounce any criticism or sanctions against these boycotters as “McCarthyism”.
* חיים גנז | פרופסורים נגד חופש הביטוי
לאחרונה טען בעמוד זה אשר מעוז, פרופסור למשפט חוקתי, כי אמירות של מרצים כמו זו הקובעת כי חיילי השייטת שפשטו על הספינה מרמרה הם "רוצחים בדם קר", או זו המכנה חיילים המפנים מתנחלים "נאצים" - מתיימרות לחסות תחת כנפי החופש האקדמי, אך למעשה אין להן דבר אתו ("מה לחרם ולחופש אקדמי", "הארץ" 21.7). שר החינוך גדעון סער קדם למעוז בעניין זה. לא מזמן אמר, כי "קריאה לחרם אקדמי, פעולות לחרם על מדינת ישראל, בעיני לא לגיטימיות". ואמנון רובינשטיין, גם פרופסור למשפט חוקתי וגם שר חינוך בעבר, הצטרף למקהלת הליווי של "ישראל ביתנו" בטיוטת מאמר אקדמי שהפיץ בימים אלה באתר "מדעי החברה - ישראל". רובינשטיין מציע שם לאפשר לטריבונלים משמעתיים אוניברסיטאיים להעניש מרצים, אפילו בפיטורים, על סוגים מסוימים של התבטאויות, שאינן בגדר עבירה פלילית.
* יפעת ארליך עיתונאית | "נו, אז כמה פוסט-ציונים עושים כותרות"
ד"ר גדי טאוב פורס כתב קטגוריה נגד השמאל הפוסט-ציוני, שלדבריו ניתק עצמו מהציבור הישראלי ("כשיתחיל להיות רע, הם ילכו מכאן"), אך משוכנע שזו אינה הרוח השוררת באקדמיה בישראל. "לאנשים בעלי דעות ימניות צפויים אומנם חיים קשים באקדמיה, אבל לא רודפים בה אף אחד, ובטח שלשמאל הבלתי ציוני אין בה רוב"
* רמי הלפרין פובליציסט / הטפה לחרם - וחופש אקדמי
עשבים שוטים גדלים בערוגות האקדמיה. אין כל כוונה לפגוע בחופש דעות והבעתן בציבור, כמו גם בחופש הבעת הדעה לציבור בכלל. חופש הביטוי אינו חופש השיסוי. יש להגביל חופש ביטוי, כאשר הוא גורם מסית ומטרתו גורמת לקעקוע אושיות מדינה וחברה. |
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| 05.08.10 |
| Amiel Vardi in the service of Bedouins against the state of Israel |
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An email from Amiel Vardi, Sheih Jarrah and Hebron anti-Israel activist, inviting his colleagues, other radical activists, to come and support Bedouins in the Negev against the Israeli police forces while evacuating illegal Bedouin villages.
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| Oren Yiftachel in the service of Bedouins against the state of Israel |
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An article by Oren Yiftachel in Haaretz in Hebrew and the translation in English, where it is added that Yiftachel represents Bedouins in Israeli court in another case and the decision over ownership of land is pending. The question raised here is this ethical for him to bring his case forward in the press?
Yiftachel thinks Israel should always give up her rights to land to every Arab claim even without the need for ownership documents, otherwise it is considered discrimination:
"So as history would have it, even if the dry letter of the law does not concur, it is the State of Israel which is invading the Bedouin land, and not the other way around.
But let us put history and legal arguments aside for the moment, and ask -- is there no other way?.."
He concludes that
"...this may not happen under Israel's continuing shift to the right, and the re-enforcement of its “ethnocratic” principles of greater Jewish control, often violent, on both sides of the Green Line. If ethnocracy prevails over democracy, dangerous ethnic discrimination will continue to mould life in the Negev.
For some reason Yiftachel refuses to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish State.
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| 04.08.10 |
| [TAU] Adi Ophir's article appears in the new anti-Israel Palestinian book about the "ongoing Palestinian Genocide" |
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“The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, edited by Professor William A. Cook, is a timely anthology in which outstanding, anti-racist, humanitarian scholars (many of them Jewish) describe the horrible reality of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide that is a blot on Jewry and a blot on Humanity.
The book begins with an Acknowledgment of collaborators, writers, journals and of writers whose works were offered but could not be included in this collection. The editor then provides a series of succinct Biographies of the various authors (that are provided in an even more succinct form below). The scholarly accounts of what is described throughout the book as the ongoing Palestinian Genocide are prefaced by an Introduction, “The Untold Story of the Zionist Intent to Turn Palestine into a Jewish State” by William A. Cook (Professor of English at the University of La Verne, Southern California, USA). The remainder of the book is composed of separate chapters with similarly self-explanatory titles by particular authors, each chapter deriving from an article previously published in various media.
18. Adi Ophir (associate professor, Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University; fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; author of “Order of Evils”, “Terrible Days: Between Disaster and Utopia”, and “Working for the Present”; founded and edited the journal for critical theory “Theory and Criticism” ), “Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion”, (1-16-2004).
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| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| 03.08.10 |
| Omar Barghouti, TAU student: If the occupation ends BDS will not end, because the right of return is its real cause. Palestinians Using Academics and Liberal Ideals to Promote an Extremist Agenda |
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Omar Barghouti, founder of BDS, who attends Tel Aviv University, is interviewed on the video explaining how “it is extremely important, …an institutional boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions…”
Under the guidelines of a two-state solution, which has widespread support, both peoples can live together. Yet, Barghouti clearly states that “if the occupation ends” BDS will not end, because the right of return is its real cause. “I clearly do no buy into the two state solution,” Barghouti said. “This is something we cannot compromise on,” he said.
In his own words, Barghouti understands that “If the refugees were to return, you would not have a two state solution, you’d have a Palestine next to a Palestine.” |
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| 02.08.10 |
| [BGU] Ahmad Sadi, Nizar Hassan [Sapir]: Abbas adopts a central tenet of Zionism, a grave betrayal of the rights of the Palestinians |
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[BGU, Politics] Ahmad Sadi
Nizar Hassan [Sapir College]
[TAU, PhD candidate] Omar Barghouti
Yasmeen Daher, lecturer at Birzeit University residing in Jaffa
During a 9 June meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, you reportedly said: "I would never deny [the] Jewish right to the land of Israel," a statement that you have yet to retract. We regard this announcement, which adopts a central tenet of Zionism, as a grave betrayal of the collective rights of the Palestinian people. It is tantamount to a surrender of the right of Palestinian citizens of Israel to live in equality in their own homeland, in which they have steadfastly remained despite the apartheid regime imposed on them for decades. It also concedes the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. |
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