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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.
Reprints of anti-Israel articles do not represent the position
of IAM, and they are being reproduced as a public service
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| 30.07.10 |
| Israel Academia Monitor Friday Special |
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* "The Nakba Obsession" / By Sol Stern
* "לאקדמיה אין חופש הסתה נגד המדינה וצה"ל" / מתי דוד
* I Blame / By Matti David
* גדעון סער- אנו תומכים במאבקך במרצים הקוראים לחרם על מדינת ישראל* International Board of Governors * Haaretz ad of TAU international board of governors supporting Gideon Sa'ar
* "להגן על החופש האקדמי" / אורי הייטנר
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| 29.07.10 |
| Neve Gordon: Israel "Ethnically Cleansing" Bedouin Arabs. Also, [Sapir College] Yeela Raanan, Awad Abu-Freih |
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Writing in The Guardian's Comment is Free, notorious anti-Zionist academic Neve Gordon, not even bothering to address the wider context of the demolition, even went as far as to state that he
suddenly understood how far the state is ready to go to accomplish its objective of Judaising the Negev region; what I witnessed was, after all, an act of ethnic cleansing...
Al-Arakib spokesman and local resident Dr. Awad Abu-Farikh said following the razing: "Today we got a close glimpse of the government's true face. We were stunned to witness the violent force being used. The black-clad special unit forces are the true face of Lieberman's democracy. This operation is the first step in the uprooting of many villages. We shall return to our villages, build our homes and not leave this place."
Alternative Information Center is co-chaired by Prof' Yossef Schwartz of Tel Aviv University:
According to Dr. Abu Freih, "it is crucial that we unite and struggle together, in order to survive and so we can remain in our village." Dr. Abu Freih stated that the villagers are currently "in need of everything, from money to rebuild and visits by activists to local and international media attention."
Of late someone is pushing for a violent resolution of the many years of conflict between the Bedouins in the Negev and the state. Voices are heard of a new tsunami rolling toward us, it is already a major offensive, against the Bedouins wherever they may be.
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| 28.07.10 |
| Israeli scholars against Israel in foreign media: Oren Yiftachel, Daniel Bar-Tal, Ilan Saban, Yousef Jabareen |
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* An ethnocracy," he explains, is a regime promoting “the expansion of the dominant group in contested territory ... while maintaining a democratic façade." Yet Americans, with only a little knowledge of the facts, still refer to Israel as "the only democracy in the Middle East".
* Israelis, he says, “do not look in the mirror” and do not wish to be reminded by NGOs about their image. The result, he says, is that “the foundations” of democracy in the country are under siege.
* unlike most - if not all - other democracies, Israel lacks a political culture that respects limits on the power of the majority.
* "In some areas you could identify some characteristics of apartheid that should raise a lot of concern about the future,"
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| Editorial Articles by IAM Associates |
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| 27.07.10 |
| Editor's note on two different issues: 1) Ran Baratz. 2) Palestinian quest for academic cooperation with Israel |
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1) Prof' Yakira wrote that Dr. Baratz was not the only candidate for the teaching position and another candidate with better qualifications won the position. Dr. Baratz did not have scientific articles published anywhere yet. Prof' Bar-Tal wrote that already two weeks prior to the "scandal" in the media, Dr. Baratz has a contract waiting at his desk, to teach in the second term of the year. This means that the story of political bias is untrue.
2) We have seen an email sent by Dr. Udi Adiv, a lecturer at the Open University of Israel. The email tells of meetings he had with Palestinian academics who requested mutual academic research with Israeli academics, in various fields, such as Education and Culture, Urbanization, Health, Nutrition, Marketing, Agriculture, Transportation, Water and Sewage. This comes as good news. While the Palestinians are the ones who initiated a world-wide call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, it is good step to see Palestinian academics seeking source for cooperation with the Israeli academia.
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| Anti-Israel Petitions Supported by Israeli Academics |
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| 26.07.10 |
| [Hebrew U, Classics] Amiel Vardi's petition in support of boycott calls and in opposition to the new law forbidding it עברית |
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Activists of Sheikh Jarah Solidarity movement, see with great concern the anti democratic law initiative which is being forwarded by the Israeli Knesset. We intend to fight against this law which harms the basic rights of freedom of expression, conscious and protest - as an example for the law which forbids Israeli citizen to call for financial sanctions against Israeli institutions in Israel and the occupied territories.
We insist on fighting against such fascist trends and therefore, as civil disobedience, we are calling for supporters and other citizens of Israel to join the following call
Signed by over 700 people including Israeli academics such as:
Dalit Baum, Amiel Vardi, Eyal Nir, Rachel Giora, Sarai Aharoni, Ran HaCohen, Efraim Davidi, Avner Cohen, Elad Orian, Amotz Agnon, Jerardo Liebner, Merav Amir, Ofer Kasif, Alla Shainskaya, Jacob Katriel, Ishai Menuhin, Ishai Rozen-Tsvi, Yehouda Shenhav, Anat Biletzki, Ronen Shamir, Eva Jablonka, Yossi Amitay, Haim Ganz, Dudi Tzfati, Moshe Zukermann, Iris Fry, Snait Gisis, Miri Eliav-Faldon, Yuval Yonay, Ben-Zion Munitz, Yossef Schwartz, Uri Ram, Dalia Sacks, Lev grinberg, Haggai Ram, Ron Kuzar, Micah Leshem, Ronit Lentin, Haim Bresheeth, Ephraim Nimni, Juli Neman-Arad, Idith Zertal, Ofra Goldstein-Givoni, Daniel Boyarin, Batya Roded, Tzvia Shapira, Jerry Haber, Daniel De-Malach, Yosefa Loshitzky, Moshe Machover, Joseph Zeira, Tzvi Mazeh, Calman Altman, Hanna Safran, Kobi Snitz, Betzalel Mankin,
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| 25.07.10 |
| Mada al-Carmel: “The Time of the Green Line” by TAU Yehuda Shenhav and a review of [Hebrew U, Law] Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's Book |
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Mada al-Carmel invites you to participate in a seminar: Discussing the Book: “The Time of the Green Line”, by Professor Yehuda Shenhav Wednesday, July 28th, 5:30 pm Mada al-Carmel
51 Allenby, Haifa. Participants: Introduction: Professor Nadim Rouhana, Director; Mada al-Carmel. Speaker: Hassan Jabareen, Lawyer, Director; Adalah. Speaker: Antoine Shalhat, Writer, Political Analyst. Commentary: Professor Yehuda Shenhav, Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology; Tel Aviv University. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian : Acts such as going to school and wearing the hijab (veil) become acts of resistance for women. In fact, wearing the hijab becomes a way of not just declaring an opposition to the occupation, but also clearly defining one’s presence within a militarized and masculinized space. Women’s bodies are, thus, true battlegrounds and sites of resistance as women employ not only the hijab, but also traditional embroidery on clothing and the practice of religion as forces of resistance. Interestingly and with compelling evidence, Shalhoub-Kevorkian points out that international human rights discourse has done very little for Palestinian women in the context of occupation...For example, the threat of rape for Palestinian women may be perceived as exaggerated by some but, given the history of the use of rape or the threat of rape to disperse villages during the Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948, it becomes clear that such fears are reasonable. |
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| 23.07.10 |
| Israel Academia Monitor Friday Special |
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בריחת המוחות יכולה להתרחש גם אצל מי שנשאר פה
כמה הם עולים לנוו
Ben Gurion University's response in relations to the Dr. Leavitt affair
What do boycotts have to do with academic freedom?
אשר מעוז | זה חופש אקדמי?
ועדת החינוך תדון בפרשת המרצה שפוטר
Right Wing Hebrew University Professor Fired |
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| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| 22.07.10 |
| Divest occupation campaign signed by Israeli Academics: [TAU] Rachel Giora, Anat Matar, [Weizmann] Kobi Snitz |
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We are a group of citizens and residents of Israel, Palestinians and Jews. We join our friends at Jewish Voice for Peace, and many others around the world, in urging you to divest from companies which profit from Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. It is particularly as Israelis that we appeal to you, we find it extremely offensive when the occupation is said to be carried out in our names or for our sake.
It is likely that you are not aware that your funds are invested in companies such as Caterpillar and Northrop Grumman. Companies like these play a crucial role in the decades long continuing dispossession of the Palestinian people, whether by selling bulldozers used for destroying houses or delivering spare parts to airplanes which are regularly deployed against civilian population.
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| 21.07.10 |
| A joint struggle against Israel: Neve Gordon, Gadi Algazi, Abeer Baker "Before it’s too late: moving from protest to ongoing activity" |
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Thursday 22.07.2010 10:00 – 17:00
The conference calls on Jewish and Arab human rights, protest and peace organizations to make a clear joint appeal and work together to:
* Stop the siege on Gaza
*Stop incitement towards Palestinians in Israel, and the policy of racism towards them.
*Stop the persecution of critics and opponents of - - Government policy.
*Strive for the ending of the occupation in a persistent and effective way.
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| 20.07.10 |
| Anti-Israel journalist writes in memoriam of anti-Israel activist Prof' Israel Shahak of the Hebrew U, Chemistry |
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| A de-Zionisation, the removal of Apartheid and discrimination. For many years I have been saying that Israel is an Apartheid country that discriminates against non-Jews. The first thing I wish for Israel is that the official discrimination of all non-Jews cease. I am not a utopian. I mean legal discrimination and official oppression. I think that this would be good basis for a “cold peace” in the Middle East. I don´t expect a “warm peace” in the region based on love. I wish for a “cold peace” like, let us say, exists between Greece and Macedonia. They don´t like each other but they don´t make war. The first condition for this peace is de-Zionisation of Israel. |
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| 19.07.10 |
| Ishai Menuchin "An assault on democracy": Attacks are spearheaded by NGO Monitor, Israel Academia Monitor & Im Tirtzu |
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The recent attacks are spearheaded by such organizations as NGO Monitor, Israel Academia Monitor and Im Tirtzu, but they apparently enjoy the backing of the government and of many right-wing Knesset members. They constitute a new phenomenon in Israel - civil-society organizations whose main activity is to attack other organizations. Their efforts go beyond the normal give-and-take of democratic discourse, and seems to be directed at halting human-rights advocacy and having the HROs legislated out of existence.
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Weekend Special:
| Editorial Articles by IAM Associates |
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| Limit Israel’s boycott fans |
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For years now, Israeli academic institutions have been under attack by Israeli teaching staff members who travel the world and urge lecturer unions to boycott Israeli universities. Some of these Israeli professors go even further by encouraging economic bodies to withdraw their investments from Israel in general and from the universities in particular, boycott Israel and its academic institutions, and impose sanctions on them.
These people justify their activity by arguing that academic freedom grants them the right to undermine the economic stability of the institutions they draw their salaries from, while the State – which pays their salaries – must continue doing so even though they incite against it and threaten its very existence.
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| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| Israeli Bill Reflects Frustration With Academics Who Support Boycotts |
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An effort to discourage Israeli public-university professors and others from supporting boycotts of the Jewish state is roiling the country's academics.
While an academic boycott and other efforts to isolate the country have long been debated, recent public condemnation of Israel's botched military raid on a flotilla of ships bound for Gaza has heated up the political situation.
Israeli legislators, feeling embattled by hostile world opinion, are considering a series of measures responding to what they regard as inappropriate sanctions against their country and its leaders, some of whom have been threatened with arrest for alleged war crimes.
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Weekend Special:
| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| Knesset promotes anti-boycott bill |
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The Knesset on Wednesday approved in a preliminary hearing a bill meant to deter Israelis from taking part in boycotts of Israel. The bill is slated to apply to anyone who will initiate or promote a boycott of individuals, factories, companies or organizations in all Israeli territories, apart from the West Bank. The vote was virtually unanimous.
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| Article by anti-Israel journalist of Arabic media: |
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Witch-hunt Begins in Israeli Schools and Colleges
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Neve Gordon, a politics professor at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva who called for an academic boycott of Israel last year, has reported receiving death threats, as has a school teacher who refused to participate in Mr Saar’s flagship programme to encourage high-school recruitment to the Israeli military.
Daniel Gutwein, a professor of Jewish history at Haifa University, said: “A serious red flag is raised when the education minister joins in the de-legitimisation of the academic establishment. This is a method to castrate and abolish Israeli academia.”
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| Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them |
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Daniel Gutwein, a history professor at Haifa University who is one of the signatories, described the minister's intervention as an attempt "to make Israeli academia docile, frightened and silent".
Although the BDS campaign – in various forms – has been running for over half a decade, it has become an increasingly fraught issue inside Israel in the past year since a small number of academics publicly declared support for a boycott, including Neve Gordon, author of Israel's Occupation and a former paratrooper who was badly injured while serving with the Israeli Defence Force.
Speaking to the Observer last week, Gordon said that many Israelis saw support for the BDS as "crossing a red line". Adding that he had received recent death threats, he said: "I am worried about what is happening to the space for debate in Israel. I find that there is a proto-fascist mindset developing. One of the slogans you hear a lot now is no citizenship without loyalty. It is an inversion of the republican idea that the state should be loyal to the citizen."
"It's a different world to what it was even a month ago," says Kobi Snitz, member of an Israeli BDS group. "Suddenly, all sorts of people are supporting it – people that you wouldn't expect."
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| Neve Gordon: BDS campaign wants Israel to abide by international law |
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There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding about Boycott Divestment and Sanctions. BDS is not a principle but a strategy; it is not against Israel but against Israeli policy; when the policy changes BDS will end.
BDS is not about a particular solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the demand that Israel abide by international law and UN resolutions.
It is, accordingly, something that you can support if you are for a two-state solution or a one-state solution. You can even support it as a Zionist.
It arises from the realisation, following years of experience, that the occupation will not end unless Israelis understand that it has a price.
In a sense, the need for a boycott is a sign of weakness following the polarisation and marginalisation of the left in Israel. We are witnessing the development of a proto-fascist mindset. I am, for example, extremely anxious about the extent that the space for public debate in Israel is shrinking.
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| Ben-Gurion University of the Negev response Clarification of the issues concerning Dr. Yerucham Leavitt |
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In recent days, the internet and press have been awash with reports that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has "fired" Dr. Yerucham Leavitt. The reports have erroneously linked what happened with Dr. Leavitt to the University's response to Dr. Neve Gordon last year when he expressed his support of an international boycott of Israel.
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| 15.07.10 |
| [TAU, Cohn] Roy Wagner "The French Senate, the anti-Zionist Israeli anarchist and the France-Palestine NGO" |
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On the 25th of June Roy Wagner, a fellow at the Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University, spoke at the French Senate at a pro-Palestine event on behalf of the "Anarchists Against the Wall", a group aiding the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel. Israel Academia Monitor brings you a report of the event: Roy Wagner wants to speak in French. He said that he participates in nonviolent protests with the Israeli left. Small group of people join the nonviolent resistance. He says he is there because:
1) We Israelis are here as witnesses of Palestinian people real life, because we are more credible than the Palestinians themselves.
2) To protect the Palestinians against Israeli’s violence.
3) Israel tries to prevent us from being there, they arrest us, they beat us and they shoot us.
4) He is one of the Anarchists Against the Wall.
5) We need money to cover legal fees.
6) We spend our nights in Palestinian villages. The Medias wait for us, they want to help us recover the stolen land.
7) Among his students' friends, there are influential people.
8) Actually, there will be no end to occupation but normalization.
9) Our goal is the end of apartheid and the end of the occupation.
10) Our friends are en route to support it and they need you.
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| 14.07.10 |
| [TAU, Cohn] Merav Amir and Dalit Baum [Haifa U, Gender]: Mapping of the occupation industry as tools for consumer boycotts |
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Three years later, in November 2009, the general body of CWP (the Coalition of Women for Peace) reconvened to review the BDS discussion. Strikingly, this time support for the general call for BDS was unanimous. Throughout those three years we witnessed the attacks and the siege on Gaza; the occupation in the West Bank has further entrenched itself as a form of apartheid regime; this was all done with the support of Israeli public opinion. At the same time, the BDS movement has grown globally, and CWP has played an important part in it through its three-year research project entitled Who Profits from the Occupation. Through the project we have studied new facets of the economy of the occupation, and the results of our three year study have played an important part in showing how the use of boycott, divestment and sanctions is justified, necessary, and potentially very effective in our work for a just peace in Israel/Palestine.
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| 13.07.10 |
| [Weizmann Institiue] Kobi Snitz was detained at anti-Israel rally near hebron. Also, Snits in the film "Budrus" |
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Kobi Snitz, a member of the 'Anarchists Against the Wall' group which goes every Friday to show support with the Palestinans in their struggle against israel, is detained again after participating in an anti-Israel rally. The first item is taken from Palestine Ma'an News. The second item is about Snitz, a protagonist in the film 'Budrus.'
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| 12.07.10 |
| [U of Haifa, Law] Dr. Raef Zureik and Advocate Abeer Baker: Palestinians in Israel, Alternative methods of struggle |
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Dr. Raef Zreik and Advocate Abeer Baker, the Faculty of Law, the University of Haifa
Dr. Fawzi al-Asmar (Ph.D. from the University of Exeter)
Dr. Mohammed Abu Nimer, Professor in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program at the School of International Service and Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at American University, Washington DC
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| 11.07.10 |
| [TAU, Linguistics] Rachel Giora: "Thanks to the Palestinians"(!) Israel must change or collapse: On the impact of BDS |
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| Thanks to the Palestinians, the world has now opened its eyes. And in the eyes of the world, Israel must change. And change it will. |
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| 09.07.10 |
| Israel Academia Monitor Friday Special: A selection of articles on Academic Freedom גם בעברית |
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* Candidly Speaking: Stalinism at Ben-Gurion University / by Isi Leibler
Just a few weeks ago, Professor Neve Gordon, head of Ben-Gurion University's department of politics and government, was again challenged for continuously engaging in initiatives calling for a global boycott of Israel including his own University.
* Hating Israel on our campus By Israel David
Ben-Gurion University turning into village fool, hotbed of anti-Israel activity /
The protests following the Turkish flotilla incident included activists marching outside the Ben-Gurion University senate building while giving the Nazi salute and shouting “Heil Bibi.” These were apparently outside provocateurs, yet members of the university’s teaching staff participated in the demonstration
* Terra Incognita: When only the critics are heard / By Seth J. Frantzman
That there is so much focus on the Holy Land is a fact of life. The trouble is that the narrative of Israel is being communicated by those who dislike it.
Among the themes that top the list of the coming year’s publications dealing with the Middle East are Iranian history, Lebanon’s vibrancy, Saudi Arabia and stories of American combat soldiers. But there is one that, unsurprisingly, towers above all the rest: Israel and the Palestinians. Of the 700 books that will be published in English on the Middle East in the next year, 107 (15 percent) of them will be devoted to the conflict or aspects of it. This is based on a careful examination of forthcoming publications at Amazon.com, although there are probably other obscure publications lurking out there.
* The fight for academic freedom / By Ronen Shoval
After decades of a feeling of stifling anti-Zionist bias at the universities, change is knocking at academia's gates.
This opinion page has recently carried articles attacking the legitimacy of the Im Tirtzu movement and distorting the report we submitted to the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee. These articles continued a hysterical assault against our movement by academics on Internet forums. The authors' main argument boils down to the tired old mantra of labeling with McCarthyism anyone trying to criticize what happens in academia.
* Academic Freedom at BGU: Walking A Fuzzy Line / By Jack Friedman
Ben-Gurion University’s reputation as a premier center of higher education has been tarnished in the last few years by a small number of radical Left faculty who, in their classrooms and through their writings and external ventures, defame Israel, calling it an apartheid state, agitate for economic and academic boycotts and, generally, question the legitimacy of the country’s democratic institutions.
גבי שפר האקדמאים שותקים
דברי השר גדעון סער על כוונתו לבחון את הטענות המופרכות של "אם תרצו" ולפעול נגד הטיה אקדמית אנטי ציונית כביכול, בעיקר בחוגים למדע המדינה באוניברסיטאות, הם עוד צעד חמור בהידרדרות התרבותית, הפוליטית והחינוכית בישראל.
יש לדחות מכל וכל את דברי סער על הגישה במחלקות למדע המדינה. יש עדיין אקדמאים רבים המנסים להגן על הממשל והחברה הישראלית, וגם על ערכי הדמוקרטיה הישראלית המידרדרת. מצד אחר, יש כמה סיבות לשתיקה הגוברת של האקדמאים בהקשר התרבותי, החברתי והפוליטי. רק אקדמאים מעטים אינם יראים להשמיע את קולם בביקורת חריפה על שקיעת החברה, הפוליטיקה והדמוקרטיה.
מקרתיזם אקדמי / בן דרור ימיני
החופש האקדמי, שכולל השמעת עמדות מבחילות, שמור רק לצד שמאל. ד"ר ירוחם לויט פוטר מכיוון שהביע עמדה. היכן שר החינוך?
שורה של מרצים בכירים באוניברסיטאות ישראליות מחרפים ומגדפים את ישראל. התרגלנו כבר חלקם גם דורשים את החרמת ישראל. גם לזה התרגלנו. כאשר מישהו מעז לומר עליהם מילת ביקורת, בין שזה שר החינוך גדעון סער או בין שזה הפרופסור אלן דרשוביץ, הם מייללים על הפגיעה בחופש האקדמי שלהם
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| Boycott Calls Against Israel |
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| 08.07.10 |
| Academics to Gideon Sa'ar: Don't withhold academic freedom. Sa'ar responded: Those who harm academic freedom are lecturers calling for boycott עברית |
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In a petition to Gideon Sa'ar, the Minister of Education, a group of 542 Israeli academics, requested that the minister does not act against lecturers who called for boycotts of Israel, for the sake of Academic Freedom. Although the petition declares not to show support in any boycott call, some of the signatories are those who do call for boycott.
Out of the long list, below are some names of leading anti-Israel activists since many years and it includes Haggai Ram, Micah Leshem, Dani Filc, Rachel Giora, Kobi Peter (Peterzil), Uri Hadar, Eyal Nir, Mike Dahan, Ilan Saban, Amir Paz-Fuchs, Raef Zureik, Uri Ram, Lev Grinberg, Yoav Peled, Anat Matar, Rafi Grinberg, Moshe Zimmerman, Daniel Bar-Tal, Yehuda Kupperman, Fredie Rokem, Galit Hassan-Rokem, Yali Hashash (student), Roni Hammerman, Tamar Katriel, Jacob Katriel, Julia Chaitin, Ofer Neiman (student), Ronit Marian-Kadishay, Ayala Shani (non academic, leading anti-Israel activist), Dudi Tzfati, Yuval Yonay, Kalman Altman, Marcello Daskal (Omar Barghouti's supervisor), Daniel Dor, Ran Hacohen, Yehoshua Rozin (non academic, anti-Israel Activist), Idan Lando, Haim Jacobi, Yossef Schwartz, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ronit Lentin, Eva Yablonka, Dalia Sacks, Gadi Algazi, Hannah Safran, Anat Biletzki, and Yeela Raanan.
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| 07.07.10 |
| [BGU, Politics] Anti-Israel talk by Neve Gordon on Israeli Apartheid and the bi-national state titled "Israel-Palestine: Prospects for Peace". Sabeel, Seattle |
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Recently posted on Youtube: February 19, 2010 at the conference "The United States, Israel and Palestine: What Does Justice Require of US?" at St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, WA.
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| 06.07.10 |
| Canada: Quebec teachers union promotes boycott of Israel - recently devoted more than one-third of its in-house magazine to condemning Israel |
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MONTREAL — One of the province’s largest teachers unions – the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et des enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ) – recently devoted more than one-third of its in-house magazine – seven of 20 pages – to condemning Israel and supporting the international boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign against it.
While a Quebec union being unfriendly to Israel may come as no surprise, the spring issue of Carnets stood out for the scope of its polemics and its use of vitriolic language.
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| 05.07.10 |
| [TAU, Cohn] Merav Amir of a group opposed to the occupation of Palestine: There are a wide range of civilian means used for depriving Palestinians |
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Merav Amir from the Coalition of Women for Peace, a Tel Aviv group opposed to the occupation of Palestine, said it would be "highly problematic" for the EU to draw a distinction between military and non-military research in the case of Israel.
"The military here is used as part of this whole mechanism of control that is much wider than anything that is done at gunpoint," she said. "There are also a wide range of civilian means used for depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights. Any aspect of the occupation that you look at is done through a wide range of technologies, whether they be biometric means, security cameras, fences, sensors and so on. It is not simply things that are aimed to kill."
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| 04.07.10 |
| [Hebrew U, Law] Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: We meet to commemorate the Nakba which was waged against our people and has not yet ended |
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Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who received a grant of CAD 379800 to promote education for Palestinian women in Israel, smears Israel : Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian spoke about the case of Ameer Mahkoul and Dr. Omar Saeed, stating that, “We meet today to commemorate the Nakba, which was waged against our people and has not yet ended, just as the system of persecution, domination, and attempted silencing has not ended. For Ameer and Omar continue to be imprisoned by this state, reminding them and reminding us of the continuing Nakba, and of our unending efforts to reject and resist it.”
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| Friday Special |
| First of all, academic integrity |
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Circles in the extreme right have been trying for a long time to harm the academic freedom of faculty members in institutions of higher education in Israel. Now it is clear that that academic freedom faces a threat from the extreme left as well.
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| US Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow to Human-Rights and Aid Groups |
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Human-rights and humanitarian organizations lost a Supreme Court case Monday when the justices upheld a federal law that prohibits U.S. organizations from providing “material support” to designated terrorist groups. Some nonprofit groups had argued that the law prevents them from engaging in peace-building work and jeopardizes aid in conflict zones.
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| Israelis in Non-Israeli Universities |
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| 01.07.10 |
| [Ex-Sapir, UEL since 2002] Watch Haim Bresheeth on Israeli Apartheid: The Israeli murder of international activists |
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After the Israeli attack and the murder of international activits who attempt to break the blocade of Gaza, we went to interview professor Haim Bresheeth, an Israeli activist fighting for Palestinians' rights. Go check Haim's website: gaza.haimbresheeth.com/
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| 30.06.10 |
| [TAU, emeritus of Anthropology] Moshe Shokeid in Haaretz as an example to how deeply rooted is anti-Israel activism in the academia |
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In the past two years I have been invited to take part in many conferences hosted by the American Anthropological Association. The topic of discussion at these forums has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I agreed to take on a thankless task not as a spokesman for Israel's education ministers or as a mouthpiece of the right or left. I appeared before an academic audience not noted for its sympathetic views on Israeli policy. This group is more inclined to support the Palestinians, albeit with the belief that neither side holds a monopoly on truth and justice. I tried to place this awful conflict in the context of two truths, with two claims that contradict each other in terms of historical facts and painful memories, between two national movements that have lost all sense of proportion while striving for a settlement that does not provide either side with complete justice. Alas, I have no plans to accept similar invitations in the future. In the past year, I have lost the conviction that I can truthfully speak for the current Israeli government's suicidal behavior.
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