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| [Hebrew U, Education] "Israeli Racist Education: Discussion with Nurit Peled-Elhanan" was on Feb 2nd, 2010. Alternative Information Center |
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The AICafé
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Israeli Racist Education:
Discussion with Nurit Peled
Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli peace activist and professor at Hebrew University.
She's one of the most prominent critical voices against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. |
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| [Hebrew University, Political Science] On the attacks on the New Israel Fund and its chair Prof' Naomi Chazan |
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| Washington – Ma'an – Israel's Peace Now movement and Americans for Peace Now on Monday condemned attacks on the New Israel Fund, which has come under fire for funding human rights organizations whose reports appeared in South African jurist Richard Goldstone's UN report on Gaza. |
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| [Hebrew University, School of Social Work & Social Welfare] Prof' Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia Blames Palestinian Wife-Beating on Israel |
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Their study [3] is titled: “Association between exposure to political violence and intimate-partner violence in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional study.” And yes, they have found that Palestinian husbands are more violent towards Palestinian wives as a functi'on of the Israeli “occupation”—and that the violence increases significantly when the husbands are “directly” as opposed to “indirectly” exposed to political violence.
...This study was funded by the Palestinian National Authority as well as by the Core Funding Group at the University of Minnesota. The Palestinian Authority is not a disinterested party. But even worse: The data was collected by the Palestinian Central Bureau. These are the people who told the world that Israeli soldiers shot young Mohammed al-Dura, committed a massacre in Jenin, and purposely attacked Palestinian civilians (who just happened to be jihadists dressed in civilian clothing or hostage-civilians behind whom the jihadists hid).
Second, let’s note that the study has a political goal which trumps any objective academic or feminist goal. (These researchers claim to have a “feminist” perspective). In my view, this study wishes to present Palestinian men as victims, even when those men are battering their wives. And, it wishes to present Palestinian cultural barbarism, which includes severe child abuse, as also related to the alleged Israeli occupation.
Third, therefore, the study has purposely omitted the violence, including femicide, which is routinely perpetrated against daughters and sisters in “occupied Palestine” and has, instead, chosen to focus only on husband-wife violence and only on couples who are currently married. The honor murders of daughters and sisters by their parents and brothers is a well known phenomenon in Gaza and on the West Bank. |
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| [Hebrew U, Education] Yoel Elizur who analysed "atrocities" committed by soldiers during the first Intifada, is chairman of the psychologists council |
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The psychologists council recommended Yoel Elitzur of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Education.as chairman, Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman's office was pressured to nominate Elitzur.
Paper
Participation in Atrocities Among Israeli Soldiers During the First Intifada: A Qualitative Analysis
Yoel Elizur
School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, mselizur@mscc.huji.ac.il
Nuphar Yishay-Krien
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Atrocities committed by soldiers are a common occurrence that harms not only victims, but also perpetrators, armies, and nations. However, censorship, limited access to information, and the tendency to deny one's evil and project it onto the other impede investigation into how ordinary soldiers cross the line between legitimate fighting and excessive violence. This study examined processes associated with Israeli soldiers' brutal behaviors during the first Intifada. Participants were 21 male combat veterans of two companies stationed in Gaza whose sampling reflected diversity in Israeli society and a wide range of behaviors in the Intifada. Situational factors and social—psychological processes (i.e. modeling, moral disengagement, dehumanization, and deindividuation) were powerful inducers of brutality. The data also showed individual differences in violence, inner—outer directedness, and moral standards. Consequently, five subgroups were identified: Callous/Impulsive, Ideologically Violent, Followers, Restrained, and Incorruptible. The use of these categories to examine the soldiers' unfolding experience over time generated a unique perspective into two less studied dynamics. The first was a synergistic interaction between dispositional and situational factors, manifested in level of brutality and differential subgroup stability of violent behaviors over time. The second was the company as a family-like primary social system that developed inner culture and structural patterns characterized by alignments and social power. Initially, there evolved a culture of brutality with an associated leadership that escalated the violence. A later clash with soldiers who adhered to the army's professional culture transformed the company's culture and structure. This analysis has implications for preventive measures, including the development of morally committed and resolute leadership at both lower and higher echelons of command. |
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| The Price of Ignoring Reality: The Example of Hebrew University’s Professor Daphna Golan-Agnon |
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In sum, for Professor Golan, Israel is a renegade “apartheid” state, and she does not hesitate to draw an odious parallel with the former struggle of the Black population of South Africa against their White oppressors. And, while she opposes academic boycotts--giving the reason that this might affect her own foreign funding--she has no problem with boycotts that would deny Israel material required for its defense or equipment such as bulldozers that could be used to bolster the occupation.
Toward the end of the interview, Professor Golan responds to questions about the nature of Israel and the outlook for the future. “Why is a Jewish majority important?” she asks. She goes on, “When was it a Jewish state? Who invented [this] notion?“ And more: “It cannot be a Jewish state, certainly not Jewish and democratic.” Perhaps, she ponders, what is called for is “a federation” of Jews and Arabs. |
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| [Hebrew U, Jewish Studies] Book by Hannan Hever: A collection of Hebrew poetry, news & Palestinian testimonies mentioning the Palestinian Nakba |
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The Palestinian Nakba in the Hebrew Poetery, 1948-1958, is a collection of Hebrew poetry written between the months of January 1948 and December 1958 in which traces of the Palestinian Nakba are present.
Tell not in Gath is an outcome of a long and extensive archival research in which book of Hebrew poetry as well as Hebrew newspaper and periodicals have been searched. The collection also includes testimonies of Palestinians who had lived in Palestine prior to 1948, who tell, in first person, of their lives in Palestine, their deportation from the land, and their lives after it. All testimonies are taken from the Zochrot booklets on the erased Palestinian towns and villages. The book starts with an essay by Prof. Hannan Hever, who also edited the collection.
Tell it not in Gath is a book published by Zochrot, Parrhesia and the Pardes Publishing House, and is the first book published by Sedek: A Journal on the Ongoing Nakba. |
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| [Hebrew University, Religions & Classics] David Shulman and Amiel Vardi in support of Palestinians against Israelis in "Christmas in Sheikh Jarrah" |
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Below also Vardi's call for action and thank you letter in Hebrew to the local Palesinians and Israeli fellow-activists for supporting him while in Jail.
...I see it in the young people who bear the brunt of this demonstration, who organize it and lead it and cheerfully face the Border Police and the blue police and, much worse, the clandestine Shabak operators week after week. Once again, many of my students are here. They, I am sure, are our future, and I trust them to see it through. They are clearly feeling the bizarre happiness that so often floods you at such moments—the happiness that naturally flows from saying “no” to self-evident evil. |
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| Hebrew U, Education] Nurit Peled-Elhanan: "A year after the Gaza War - Speech at the protest rally". [TAU, History] Shlomo Sand was there too |
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| Good evening to all who came to mark the first anniversary of the Gaza carnage, and to protest on the comfortable complacence which inhabitants of this city and this country exhibit in face of the slow annihilation which goes on and on in Gaza and throughout Palestine. |
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| [Hebrew University, Minerva] Pro-Palestinian activist Daphna Golan singing against 'as many Jews as possible' in Jerusalem: "Everyone can drum" |
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The Israel Police arrests drums and drummers in order to keep order. And order in Jerusalem means that Jews are by law more equal than Arabs. The Jerusalem Municipality awards the third of its citizens who are Palestinian less than 14 percent of its budget, and its declared policy is segregation and discrimination: the construction of Jewish neighborhoods on land expropriated from Palestinians, the razing of Palestinian homes that were built without a permit, the building of Jewish but not Palestinian schools, the creation of Jewish settlements, protected by security guards and police, in the middle of Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem.
The policy of "preserving a demographic majority" means as few Palestinians in Jerusalem as possible, and as many Jews as possible.
This is the crux of Israel's entire policy. And the police arrest drummers so that the voices challenging this racist order are silenced |
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| [Hebrew University, Hebrew Literature Dept.] Galit Hasan-Rokem on marching with Palestinians in opposition to populate Jerusalem with Jews |
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Last Friday I participated in a march that started at the Hamshbir square in the center of Jerusalem and ended in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. This is a neighborhood on the "seam line" between the eastern and western sides of the city, near a prayer site at a tomb from the end of the Roman period or the beginning of Byzantine times, a tomb that Jewish tradition dating from the 13th century ascribes to the grave of Simeon the Just. He is a rather anonymous figure, mentioned in the Mishna at the beginning of the Ethics of the Fathers. The Mishna and the historian Josephus Flavius state that Simeon the Just lived several hundred years before the tomb was built.
The march, which was also a quasi-demonstration that took place with police approval, was intended to express opposition to the removal of Palestinian families from the site historically known as Batei Navon, named after the leader of the Sephardi Jews in Jerusalem who bought the houses at the end of the 19th century.
The Palestinian families have lived there since 1948. They were removed not to house the descendants of the land's original owners, but for settlers from an extremist organization working to populate Jerusalem - all of Jerusalem - with Jews. |
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| [Hebrew U, Education] Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan to participate in Gaza Freedom March / Nurit Peled on Iran Daily: Israeli Schools Breed Racism |
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Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli mother and recipient of the Sacharov Prize and her brother, writer and peace activist Miko Peled (mikopeled.wordpress.com) will be participating in the Free Gaza March (www.gazafreedommarch.org) this month. Nurit will be on the Israeli side of the wall while Miko, who lives in California, will be marching inside the wall on the Gaza side.
Their father was the late Israeli General turned peace activist Matti Peled. Nurit’s daughter, Smadar, was killed by Palestinians in a suicide attack in 1997.
They released the following statement:
“The appeal to march for Gaza even as the killing of innocents continues, reminds us of the appeal by the Jewish poet Bialik, more than a hundred years ago after a massacre of the Jews of Kishinev:
"Arise and go now to the city of slaughter;
Into its courtyard wind your way;
There with your own hand touch, and with the eyes in your head,
Behold on tree, on stone, on fence, on mural clay,
The spattered blood and dried brains of the dead."
In its shameless indignation, only sixty years after Auschwitz, the State of the Jews confines people in ghettoes surrounded by walls and barbed wires, supervised by armed soldiers and their ferocious dogs, and the world looks on in silence.
The blood of the children of Gaza will forever stain those who allow the killing in Gaza today. Israeli leaders and generals must know that they will not be exonerated. |
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| [Hebrew University, Classics & Religions] Ta’ayush Members Dr. Amos Goldberg and Prof. David Shulman in a call to fellow activists on Sheikh Jarrah |
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The weekly march to Sheikh Jarrah, to the Palestinian houses that have been invaded by Israeli settlers. ...
I look around me: mostly young people, gentle but tough—many students, some I know from my classes, |
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| [Hebrew University, Education] Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan in favor of Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs and against Israel, America and Great Britain |
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Islam in itself, like Judaism in itself and Christianity in itself, is
not a threat to me or to anyone. American imperialism is, European indifference and co-operation is and Israeli racism and its cruel regime of occupation is. |
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| [Hebrew U, Law] Daphna Golan: For more than 42 years...soldiers have obeyed orders and made another people wretched, in "Israel opposition to Goldstone report reflects layers of denial" |
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| For more than 42 years, mothers have fled bad news and soldiers have obeyed orders and made another people wretched. This isn't happening because there is no other way, but because in the view of the generals who lead the army into unnecessary wars, there is no one to talk to, no other way, and it's better not to know. |
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| [Hebrew University, Professor of Humanistic Studies] David Shulman supports terrorists' civil disobedience, in "Palestinians Return to Bir al-'Id" |
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| We speak of the Goldstone report on Gaza and of Abu Mazen's call, this week, for a third, popular Intifada, a non-violent one, like at Bil'in and Na'alin. For years we've been saying that a Palestinian campaign of Gandhian-style civil disobedience is the one thing that could bring the occupation to an end. Israel has no answer to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians marching in non-violent resistance in the territories; if this happens, and the Palestinians declare their state, as I hope and believe they will, the Israeli peace groups—what's left of them—will be marching beside them. Perhaps the Israeli peace camp will rise from the ashes. Happy early-afternoon thoughts: the tender, scary tang of hope. |
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| Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian of Mada Al Carmel complains to Jewish Chronicle concerning “Outrage over the ‘rape’ poster that demonises Israel" |
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Mada al-Carmel, published an article in a local newspaper, and sent a press release together with the Arab Forum for Sexuality.
The Arab Forum for Sexuality alone produced and disseminated the poster depicted in the report.
We would like to clarify that Mada al-Carmel supports the right to free expression, including the right of NGO's and other civil society organizations to produce posters and other artistic devices on this and other topics.
We would appreciate it if you make the required retraction to your published article.
Sincerely,
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Ph.D.
Director, Gender Studies Program
Mada Al-Carmel, Arab Center for Applied Social Research
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| [Hebrew U] Daphna Golan: "Apartheid and Occupation, providing an Israeli peace activist perspective", Saturday 21 November 2009 |
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APY Foundation for Co-operation and ICAHD cordially invite you to a conference and discussion on:
South Africa's Apartheid Regime vs Israeli policies and practices in the Palestinian Territory
When: 4-8pm, Saturday 21 November 2009
Where: Notre Dame Centre, Jerusalem (Opposite New Gate)
The conference will explore the definition of Apartheid alongside the South African experience, aiming to provide a more detailed and comprehensive analysis of the Israeli occupation regime. Speakers will explore experiences and strategies of resistance practiced under both regimes and look at different means of opposing the discriminatory, racist and colonial policies and practices pursued by the Israeli State and those affiliated with it.
Chair:
Dr. Daphna Golan – Director, Partnership for Social Change, Hebrew University Law School and long term Israeli peace activist |
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| Classics at hebrew university: Amiel Vardi calls for activists |
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volunteers needed in East Jerusalem and high court
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| [Law, Hebrew University] Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: Women under Occupation |
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| The issue of education -- when you are really affecting women's choices, women's access to education, women's abilities to develop, you are affecting everything. There is a kind of necropolitics: Israel is controlling life and death. . . . |
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| [Hebrew University, Law] Watch on YouTube: Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, university professor and author blames Israel for Palestinian violence |
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The Israeli occupation affects the daily lives of Palestinians, especially for women.
The deterioration of the economic, social and health conditions in Palestine is directly linked with violence inside the home. The militarization of space and restrictions imposed upon women is causing a growing crisis in violence against women.
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, university Professor and author of recent book Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East, speaks about the ordeals of Palestinian women under occupation.
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| [Hebrew University, Business] Bernard Avishai and his wife Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi [Hebrew University, Literature] attack Israel |
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| The enduring image of the victimized Jew in Western culture was indeed earned by a long history capped by the Holocaust, but the reality of Jews exercising power—financial, cultural and, in Israel, political and military—is what has defined Jews in the last fifty years. Yet we are being asked, in the film and in Goldberg’s presentation of it, to accept that the most adequate expression of Jewish power is vengeful and brutally violent. As if the Elephant in the Room is not the fact that Jews actually use sovereign power, among other things, to maintain a settlement regime and an occupation. |
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| [Hebrew U, Law] Daphna Golan: Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A Re-Assesment of Israel's Practices in the OPT Under International Law |
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Thirty years later, I am teaching at the Hebrew University and those invisible dividing lines – unseen yet palpable – separate the campus from its surroundings in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. The magic line that could not be legitimised in South Africa, between those who have rights and those who do not, runs through the heart of Jerusalem, separating Jews and Palestinians. Israel is perceived as a democratic state, while the Occupied Territories (or “administered territories” as they are officially called in Israel) are under military rule – just for now, until we find a political solution that Israel can live with. Meanwhile, Palestinians have been living in occupied territory for over forty years, with no rights, and Israel, which existed for only 19 years before it conquered the Palestinian Territories and instituted military rule, is still considered a democracy.
For most Israelis, the comparison of Israel with apartheid South Africa is unacceptable. It angers and threatens Israelis in general and liberal Israelis in particular; because it challenges the basic belief that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was imposed upon Israel, and is so unique that it cannot be compared with any other conflict in the world
Yet, even among Israelis, the comparison that was virtually taboo during the eighties and nineties is being heard more and more. |
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| [Hebrew U, English] Louise Bethlehem speaks of Edward Said, Shoah, Nakba, Zochrot, Zionist amnesia, apartheid |
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| I would like to offer as coda and recoding a performance of witness that arises from the latest Israeli war on Gaza (December 2008/January 2009). On January 28th 2009, the dissident organization Zochrot opened an exhibition in Tel Aviv whose substance was the destruction of Gaza but whose sub-text was, plainly, also--witness. The installation came into being around the photographs of the Palestinian artist Sareef Sarhan who photographed Gaza City during and after Israel‘s bombardment. During the brief intervals when electricity was restored to Gaza, Sarhan distributed these images on the internet. The curator of the eventual exhibition Norma Musih, a longstanding Zochrot activist, responded to the photographs by relaying them to approximately 30 Israeli artists, who then responded in turn. This collective portfolio, a group portrait across a chasm if you like, or better still, across a security fence, an apartheid wall, formed the body of the exhibition. In Musih‘s words: ―A link to Sarhan‘s photographs was sent to artists, appealing for their response, their reaction. Some of the artists chose to focus on transforming a single image, while others responded with a different image or a text. All of them viewed Sarhan‘s photographs. Looked at them, and then looked at them again. The artists‘ works are evidence of their viewing, as well as being part of it. They serve as a kind of testimony, saying, ‗We saw what is happening in Gaza, we saw and we are responding |
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| Ta’ayush activist [Hebrew U, Comparative Religion] David Shulman reports of disorderly behavior of [Hebrew U, Classics] Amiel Vardi and his student |
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| The prosecution, sensing this atmosphere of impatience, decides to withdraw the charges, and Barkali dismisses the case. For three years the threat of punishment, even prison, has been hanging over Amiel and Eli. For a moment, the threat lifts. But it won’t go away so quickly; Amiel has more trials coming up in a week (for being in a Closed Military Zone, countless times). And things are getting harder, consistently harder and more violent, on the ground. It’s not so hard to see what lies ahead. |
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| [Hebrew University, Social Work] Iaroslav Youssim promises to fight the present-day Israeli dictatorship through civil disobedience |
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I am Russian-born Israeli. I was brainwashed during many years by the smart Israeli propaganda machine. I believed that Israel is just fighting terror committed by the “evil people of Palestinians.” Still being brainwashed, I served in the Israeli Occupation Forces during the Gaza War. But now my eyes are open: during the last half a year I saw the injustices made to Palestinians by the Israeli establishment in East Jerusalem and elsewhere. And now I promise to fight the present-day Israeli dictatorship through civil disobedience, (even under attacks I subjected to in Israel: police, blackmails, violations of my freedom of speech, etc.) and incite the flame of civil disobedience in other people.
Iaroslav Youssim , Israel |
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| [Hebrew U, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work] Iaroslav Youssim: Solidarity against the Israeli Occupation’s policies in occupied East Jerusalem |
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| Civil society organizations and popular movements call for a weekly march under the title “Standup for Jerusalem”. The aim is to create international and local solidarity against the Israeli Occupation’s policies in occupied East Jerusalem. In the last recent years, Israel displaced thousands of Palestinians through home demolitions and forced eviction. |
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| [Hebrew University, Classics] Watch Amiel Vardi confronts Israeli army comander and ignores instructions not to enter closed military zone |
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The activist is filled with passion and upset, and his heart is in his mouth. "You have to give a reason," he says. "I think more than anything you owe it to yourself."
At last the impenetrable commander says, "I have no intention of explaining this to you."
I know my klezmer performances put off some visitors to this site, but boy does my Jewish heart leap up when I hear an Israeli taking on authority with such passion. Israeli Jews also have universalist dreams; the world can be saved, and the Jews are not lost. Let this man find a legion of followers! I asked Dana who my hero is, and he indicated it is Amiel Vardi, a professor of Classics at Hebrew University.
Jewish, Israeli born and speaking Hebrew. He is an amazing guy indeed. One of the driving people in Ta'ayush from the beginning. |
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| Dr. Daphna Golan [Director, Minerva Center, Hebrew University] consultant to Palestinian legal study "Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?" |
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Conference participants in photographs:
John Reynolds, Legal Researcher, Al Haq; Dr. Daphna Golan, Minerva Center, Hebrew University; and Dr. Shane Darcy, National University of Ireland – Galway
On Sunday, 16 August 2009, Al-Haq and Adalah held a symposium at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters in Al-Bireh, West Bank to discuss the recent report of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC), "Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?: A Re-Assessment of Israel's practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories under International Law". The symposium was held with the participation of researchers, lawyers and academics from several countries, including Israel, Palestine, South Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom who wrote the study. The symposium was attended by around 150 lawyers, academics, human rights and political activists, representatives of civil society institutions, and various government and political bodies....The 300-page study was published in May 2009. The researchers concluded that the Israeli occupation, through its laws and practices in the 1967 OPT, has breached the international legal prohibitions of both colonialism and apartheid. According to the study, these findings entail legal consequences not just for the Palestinians and the Israelis, but also for the UN, individual States, and the international community as a whole |
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| [Hebrew University] Daphna Golan, Minerva Center for Human Rights, participated a UN bash-Israel conference |
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| Daphna Golan-Agnon, a senior researcher at Hebrew University’s Minerva Center and founder of B’Tselem, alleged that Israel cynically uses international law to pose as a “democratic state” when, according to her, it is not. She asserted that Gaza is an “artificial, invented zone controlled by Israel,” claimed that Israel “controls” the “population registry” and “legal system” that are run by Hamas, and advocated for a bi-national state. As mentioned, Golan-Agnon was a consultant to a pseudo-academic study initiated by John Dugard (see below) that demonized Israel as an “apartheid” state. |
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| [Ex- Hebrew University, Law and now, Hartman Institute for Judaic Studies] Dr. Orit Kamir: The enemy is us. |
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In other words, we are the enemy; the cause of the problem and the suffering, and the source of the solution.
There is a naive charm to such an effusion, motivated--one must suppose--by the author’s “tireless” idealism. But the charm is deceptive. Coming as it does from a politically-active academic, it is a further demonstration of the perverted “blame Israel” outlook of the far Left in Israel’s intellectual community. Well-meaning and “idealistic” as some of the adherents might be, their outlook provides fodder to those in the international arena who “know what needs to be done” and seek to pressure Israel to surrender its vital interests, and it causes grave harm to the country as it struggles to advance its safety and security. |
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| Yuri Pines [Head Dept of East Asia Studies, Hebrew U] wants Homes of Maj. Klein and 'Terrorist Settlers' Razed |
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Replying to an e-mail petition against the planned demolition of Klein’s home, Pines wrote: “I hope that not only the Major’s home will be destroyed, but the entire settlement, and that the mitnachablim will all be gone with the wind.”
Mitnachablim is a word invented by Israeli leftists as a slur against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. It is a combination of the words mitnachalim (settlers) and mechablim (terrorists). |
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| [Hebrew University, Law] Daphna Golan-Agnon speaks at The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Geneva |
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The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene a United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 22 and 23 July 2009 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The theme of the Meeting is “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.
The objective of the Meeting is to discuss questions related to Israeli violations of international humanitarian law during the recent hostilities in the Gaza Strip |
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| [Hebrew University, Law] Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian blames Israel for the poor state of Palestinian women, in: "Checkpoints and counter spaces" |
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In the book I look at the day to day life of Palestinian women and try to uncover the effects of militarization and occupation, and the global denial of the ordeals of the Palestinian women in
both the private and the pubic sphere. I try to show that you can never divorce the private sphere from the public sphere and discuss the way that the bodies of Palestinian women are a
battlefield for the occupation. |
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| Hebrew University law courses made to change Israel to a non-Jewish state during academic years 2008/9 and 2009/10 |
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The activities were interesting and also fury-raising. I've learned about the history of oppression in the country, about the media, about the Druze community and about the recent incidents in Peqiin. I saw a movie by 'Breaking the Silent' and learned to look especially about that the things I'm not been told about, and why there are 'black holes' in out knowledge. The different activities refined my understanding that there is always a man with an interest, and that everything has a broader social-cultural connection. I learned, listened and got angry. Mostly, I found out how much I don’t know. I wondered if all those emotions meant 'activism': Was I an activist? Have I changed anything?
I like to say I have, that I promoted Jewish-Arab partnership, that I've initiate projects and got to the headlines. Unfortunately, it didn't happened, but I was encouraged to keep on learning, to change my consciousness and that of those around my. Apparently, this is where 'activism' starts, in the will of being active and to refuse to accept thing as they are. During the seminar, a few students from Tel-Hai College had the idea of creating 'activist cells' of students in the academic institutes across Israel. To keep on learning; so that eventually, the fury will raise so high, that we would have to do something in order to change it. |
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| [Sociology, Hebrew University] Nura Resh pretends ‘MachsomWatch’ Women Fight for Human Rights in Occupied Territories |
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| We are still a small group, mocked by many Israelis and often derided as “unpatriotic,” “Arab lovers,” or “traitors.” Most Israelis believe that the checkpoints are essential as a major contribution to security and we have not been able to change Israeli policy in regard to the Checkpoint regime, let alone the occupation. |
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| [Hebrew University, Law] Prof' Eyal Benvenisti, materials showing why he, supreme court judge candidate is dangerous for Israel |
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| He says that although Israel is not responsible for the acts of the Palestinian Authority toward its citizens, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel is responsible for its own acts toward Palestinian civilians. In contrast to Shamas, Benvenisti argues that because closing Gaza and the West Bank is a security precaution, one cannot distinguish between collective punishment and security concerns. In contrast to Ratner, Benvenisti says the settlers are not combatants and that if they shoot to kill, they should be tried as murders, not for war crimes. |
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| [Hebrew University, Faculty of Law] Dr. Nadra Shalhub-Quarquian: State oppression called main obstacle to freedom for Beduin women |
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| The oppressive laws and policies implemented by the State of Israel since its creation are the main obstacle to personal and economic freedom for thousands of Beduin women here, according to Dr. Nadra Shalhub-Quarquian, project director of research on women's issues at Mada Al-Carmel Institute and lecturer in the Hebrew University's social work and criminology departments. |
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| [Hebrew University, Psychology Dept.] Eyal Niv: End Police Presence in Holy Places
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| Today (June 23, 2009), Israeli Minister for Public Security Yitzhak Aharanovitch (Avigdor Lieberman's party) visited the Temple Mount/Haram Assharif, only days after publicly using a racist slur ("arabush") against Arabs. Large police forces, armed to the teeth, descended on the Temple Mount without any real justification, with the sole purpose of creating strife. As we all remember, Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount nine years ago led to wide protest across the Muslim world, protest that culminated in the al-Aqsa Intifada (the Second Intifada or the Intifada of 2000), which claimed many lives on both sides of the Green Line. While Obama reaches out to the Muslim world with a gesture of peace, Aharanovitch makes a rude gesture and a boastful show of power, which is not only unnecessary but also dangerous. |
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| [Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem] Victoria Buch died |
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| Professor Victoria Buch, the key figure behind Occupation Magazine, died on Sunday, 21 June in Jerusalem after long illness. |
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| [Hebrew University] Lecture by Dr. Adel Manna. Symposium at the Zochrot Gallery |
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| The historian, Dr. Adel Manna will discuss the range of effects of the 1948 war on the Arab/Palestinian minority remaining in Israel (1949-2009). In addition to the general national aspects of losing a homeland, freedom, home, land and citizenship in an independent state, the special meanings of the Nakba for various sectors will be emphasized, such as the “present absentees”, the loss of the Palestinian city and the fact that, at best, the Arabs in Israel became “present absentees”, but more usually, representatives of the enemy within the state (a fifth column). Indeed, it is clear that the Nakba was not only a historic event, but also a primordial “inferior” status to which the Palestinians in Israel have been pushed since 1948 and up to the present. |
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| [Hebrew University] Roni Hammermann's organization is accused of publishing lies on their website and thus undermining ongoing investigation |
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| Our reports of the last months reflect our struggle to uphold the standing of a due trial and the stubborn attempt of the police to circumvent it. The judges, as you can see, play an ambiguous role. Some of them stand up for the principle of a public trial, but unfortunately, the majority surrenders to the demands of the police. |
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| Prof. David Shulman [HUJI, Comparative Religion] and [Ben Gurion University, teaching assistant, Social Work] Ofra Ben Porat fight against Israel |
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There are the long metal poles, and Amiel hunted all over Jerusalem for the cloth panels, in the color of the Palestinian flag, to tie the poles together. If we get the damned thing up before the settlers and the soldiers attack, it will be a bright burst of red-green-black- white against the stark backdrop of the brown, baked hills....
My colleague David Loy, philosopher of Buddhism from Xavier University, in south Hebron for the first time, smiles at me: "I haven't had so much fun since the 60's!" We pass the well—last month's goal—and keep going into the Security Zone, and by now we can see, not far from us, jeeps unloading heavily armed soldiers and groups of settlers in their Shabbat white, all converging on us from above....
I seek out the commanding officer, a heavy-set career soldier, now standing a little apart, and I say to him: "Look at what you've just done, look at the absurdity of it. Forget about the Closed Military Zone and your piece of paper with or without the signature of your superior. Just look at the facts. These settlers have stolen this land from its rightful owners, and you've helped them do it. It's totally crazy. They have no right to be here, and you know it." |
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| [Hebrew University, Senior Lecturer in Classics] Amiel Vardi remains in Jail and taken to the Jerusalem court after anti-Israel provocations this weekend |
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| Two of the Israeli activists Amiel V. and Shai G. remain in jail. They will be taken to the Jerusalem court tomorrow morning. |
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| During July 2008 two Hebrew University students were indicted for being members of Al-Qaeda, planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel |
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The six, some of them students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , were members of a closed religious network in Jerusalem which planned to set up an Al-Qaeda network and carry out terrorist attacks against Israel . On July 18 they were indicted in the Jerusalem district magistrate's court.
The Israel security forces recently detained six Israeli and East Jerusalem Arabs, some of them students. They planned to set up an Al-Qaeda network and planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel, including downing the helicopter of the American president during his visit to Jerusalem.
Ibrahim Nashef , 22, from Taibeh , studying physics and computers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .
Muhammad Nijm , 24, from Nazareth , studying chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Interrogation of the six revealed that they belonged to a radical Muslim group which customarily met in Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem . They planned to establish an Al-Qaeda network in Israel to implement the organization's ideology. In February 2008 the group joined Al-Qaeda. |
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| [Hebrew University] Amiel Vardi and Amos Goldberg were arrested by Israeli police for entering closed military zone |
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| There were six members of the Israeli anti-occupation organisations, Ta'ayush and Sons of Abraham, who refused to retreat with the group and remained at the outpost site in the "closed military zone," and the Police responded by arresting the six Israelis. These six were Yehuda Agos (Ta'ayush), Amos Goldmen (Sons of Abraham), Miriam (Ta'ayush), Dorit Gadmen (Ta'ayush), Omar Sheri (Ta'ayush) & Amiel Vardi (Ta'ayush). A Palestinian man, Wael Al-Zater, was also briefly detained for unknown reasons but was released within the hour. At the time this article was written it was uncertain whether the six Israelis were charged or had been released. |
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| [Hebrew University, Education] Nurit Peled Elhanan to speak in Vienna, Austria. Topic: Racism in Israel. Israeli education vis-a-vis the Palestinians |
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| As a professor of education Peled-Elhanan has conducted extensive research on the textbooks used in Israel. She is involved with the new association ICEO (International Committee on Education and Occupation), a joint educational project called Education as Dialogue, which she co-chairs with Professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University. |
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| Ofer Neiman [Hebrew University, Computer Science] calls for refusal and mutiny amongst Israeli teenagers |
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Dear Teenager,
If you too understand that the siege on Gaza and the occupation of the west bank are immoral, If you too refuse to take a part in the policies of oppression and killing, if you too are thinking of not joining the army, If you want to raise your voice and act against the occupation, and in favor of peace - Join the Shministim letter 2009-2010 ! |
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| [Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, Sociology Departments] Maya Rosenfeld: System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees |
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| Above all, the perpetuation of UNRWA is indicative of the ongoing failure of the international community to use the power necessary to bring about a comprehensive solution to the Israeli –Palestinian conflict in accordance with the premises of international law and with the relevant UN resolutions. In fact, in light of that failure and with more than a grain of irony it may be argued that the continuation of UNRWA does a great service to the international community. After all, if not for the "cushioning" presence of UNRWA, the adoption of measures that the main international players have so far been reluctant to employ, like sanctions against Israel and the deployment of a UN force throughout the oPt, would have become unavoidable. |
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| [Hebrew University, Law] Dr. Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian participates The Palestine Right to Return Coalition convention May 2009 |
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Featured Speakers:
Strategy & tactics discussions: Expert panel discussions will include activists accomplished in the following campaigns: boycotts, divestment and sanctions, refugee support, student/youth activism, Al-Awda educational resources, and chapter building and registration.
Exiled Archbishop of Jerusalem Hilarion Cappucci, Al-Jazeera commentators/correspondents Ghassan Ben Jeddo and Khaled Dawoud, Ittijah founder Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, Law professor and Mada al-Carmel researcher (Haifa) Dr. Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, |
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| [Hebrew University, Language and Education] Dr. Nurit Peled Elhanan is a post-Zionist. Did I say “post”? She is more Palestinian than Arafat. Interview |
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It is a racist act that is happening here now. Destroying a race, destroying a people, destroying a culture by erasing villages, by having no linguistic landscape in Arabic, by not respecting the language and by universities being unwilling to give a single day off on an Arab holiday. Once I gave a day off and they nearly booted me out. You understand? When verbal attacks are tolerated physical attacks become acceptable. On television there is no report about those who are harmed, what happens to them. And no one asks. What happens with those children who are dying there by the dozens, but 'the [Israeli] cattleman was lightly wounded.' The cattleman was lightly wounded and because of that it is necessary to kill the whole world. On al-Jazeera I saw a mother sitting with the three small bodies of her children beside her and she doesn’t know what to do. No one knows about it, there is no hospital, no medicines and no one takes an interest because it is them. It’s shocking. That’s what I am crying about. It’s not a political matter, it’s a human matter.”
Your identification with them is total. What is happening to the residents of the south does not seem to interest you. It’s just them, them and them.
“Right, because I am ideologically and overtly on the side of the weak, and now it is them.”
And what about the residents of the south?
“As well”.
But I don’t hear the same fervour from you.
“Because there the cattleman was lightly wounded and in Gaza children are getting killed by the hundreds.” |
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| [Hebrew University, Gilo Center] Professor Bashir Bashir: I am surprised at the TRIBALISM & PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSION practised in Israel |
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Palestinians today are not after a viable state as is often discussed in the international media. The Palestinians want an ‘independent sovereign state' that answers their minimal aspirations. Today, Palestinians are realistic enough to concede that Israel exists on 78 per cent of their historic homeland. The demand is not for claim, revenge or for the return of this land. The demand is for a sovereign state on the 22 per cent of the land which including the Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem. Even Hamas is prepared to accept this proposal.
Instead, what is proposed now is only about 70 per cent of this 22 per cent.
This is not acceptable to the Palestinian people. If Jerusalem cannot be divided and the two state solution is not working - primarily if not exclusively due to Israel's lack of sincere intent - then I say, let us look at other ways of settling the conflict.
The other possible and innovative solution that comes to mind is a ‘bi-national state'. I propose one state for Arabs and Jews with equal rights. |
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| [Department of Economics, The Hebrew University] “The Gaza war” By Dr. Shmuel Amir |
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| There is a background and a history to this killing, this slaughter that is taking place in Gaza: the colonial relations between Jews and Palestinians in Israel that began many years before the creation of the State of Israel. Particularly astonishing is the ratio of killed over the years and especially in the Gaza war, which stands at about 1 (Israeli) to 100 (Palestinians). That ratio is not coincidental, but well describes the balance that is considered normal in colonial wars. |
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| Debate over [Hebrew U, Chemistry Dept.] Victoria Buch's "History and 'morals' of ethnic cleansing: Reflections after Gaza invasion" |
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Dear Victoria Buch,
You might be pleased to know that your article has appeared on a number of websites, apart from "Occupation Magazine."
But I get the impression from your writing that the Jews of this land are indeed guilty of Original Sin. That we have no right to have our own state and no matter what we do or omit to do, we are always wrong. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You mention correctly that this land was "already inhabited by another nation." But hadn't there always been Jews living here? Or were we a totally alien nation that suddenly descended upon that other nation? And isn't it true to say that the Arabs hadn't ruled Palestine long before the start of Ottoman rule in 1518? So, did the Arabs have more rights to this land than the Jews when the Ottoman Empire crumbled? |
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| The Hebrew University Law School's Radical-Leftist Statewide Seminar for Student-Activists |
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Witness testimonies of soldiers who have served in Hebron – Ilan Fathi, Breaking the Silence
- Fadi Shbeita, Reut-Sadaka
Sustainable economy: the ecological footstep and the culture of consumption
- Tomer Lavi, Mahapach-Taghir, Uriel Ne'eman, Green Course
It makes me mad, and I'll say that on the internet
- Hanan Cohen, SHATIL
Rehabilitation of women working in prostitution - the dilemmas of everyday therapeutic and legal work
- Carlos Sztyglic, SHATIL
Security and the threat of nuclear weapons from a feminist viewpoint
- Amani Dayif, Isha L'Isha – Haifa Feminist Center
The Arrangements (Hesderim) Law – Valeria Nahmoud, Forum of Organizations to Abolish the Arrangements Law
The struggle over higher education in Israel
- Panel: Prof. Gadi Algazi, Tel-Aviv University, Sharaf Hassan, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Yonatan Green, Student Association at Ben-Gurion University
Media
- Hanan Hadad, Mossawa Center
The global economic crisis and its implications
- Dr. Efraim Davidi, Social Economic Academy
Responsibility, sitting on the fence and other "easy" solutions
- Dr. Ishai Menuhin, The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
White gold, black labor
- Conversation with Jacki Edri
Tour 1 – to the unrecognized villages in the Negev - The Forum for Coexistence in the Negev - Dukium |
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| [Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University] Victoria Buch: "History and 'morals' of ethnic cleansing: Reflections after Gaza invasion" |
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| I arrived in Israel 40 years ago. It took me many years to understand that the very existence of my country, as it is today, is based on an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The project started many years ago. Its seed can be traced to the basic fallacy of the Zionist movement, which set out to establish a Jewish-national state in a location already inhabited by another nation. Under these conditions, one has, at most, a moral right to strive for a bi-national state; establishing a national state implies, more or less by definition, ethnic cleansing of the previous inhabitants. |
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| [Hebrew University, Education] Nurit Peled Elhanan: "The pogrom carried out by the thugs of the Occupation" |
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| The pogrom being carried out by the thugs of the Occupation army against the residents of the Gaza Strip is known to everyone and yet the world is impotent as always. I call upon all of us, who have won a privilege as well as duty by receiving the Sakharov prize, to arise and go to Gaza and any other city of oppression and slaughter; to defy all blockades and high walls and not to give up until all barriers are broken. |
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| [Hebrew U, Spinoza Institute] Ishay Menuchin: "The silence of the Israeli public in the face of oppression" rampant in Israeli society |
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We expect individuals in a democratic society to act "when horror descends upon us like the rain". We expect that they will assume responsibility not only for themselves and their individual acts, but also for the behavior of their society and its members.
In our society there is a steady increase of oppression against its exploited and weakened members – women, minority groups, disabled, and those living under the Occupation. |
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| [Hebrew U] Adal Manna and Israeli legal team support Palestinian propaganda: "Association for Civil Rights published report probing bias in Israel in 2008, says Israeli Arabs systematically discriminated against |
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Exploring the matter of discrimination, the report states that since the inception of the State of Israel, Israeli Arabs have been subject to discrimination via legislation, the allocation of resources and through the existence of bodies such as the Jewish Agency and Jewish National Fund.
With some 90,000 Arabs living in mixed cities, the differences between the Jewish and Arab neighborhoods is evident is all aspects of life and the fabric of the relations between the Arab and Jews living in these cities is riddled with violence and racism, as seen in the Yom Kippur riots in Akko.
The report goes on to note severe discrimination in the allocation of housing land, saying that while the Arab population had grown seven times over since 1948, about 50% of the land previously owned by Arab has been confiscated. |
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| Alex Sinclair [Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University]: "Obama must help Israel break its territorial addiction" |
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Israel is like an alcoholic, except we are addicted to territories, not to tequila.
Just as an alcoholic denies that he has an addiction, we too deny ours by talking about 'painful compromises' without making any, or by waiting until we have already resigned from politics before daring to tell truth, or by moaning about religious extremists while voting for factions which in turn give these fundamentalists our money. |
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| [Hebrew University, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry] Amos Goldberg / Hebron like you've never imagined it |
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A bi-national mode of thinking may be more appropriate for Hebron, one that will recognise both the Jewish and Palestinian claims over the city.
Likewise a settlement should recognise some sort of joint sovereignty both on the municipal and national levels. Moreover, perhaps this is the best settlement not only for Hebron but for all of Israel.
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| [Hebrew U] David Shulman's new chapter to his 'Dark Hope' activist dairy- "Samu'a and Asa'el", supporting Palestinians against Israel |
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since we know we're officially persona non grata in these parts, classed by the army command as troublemakers and provocateurs. Mixed parties of Palestinian-Israeli peace activists unsettle the natural order of things....
I kept wanting to scream out: what about the real act of violence at Um al-Kheir, the brutal destruction on government orders of those miserable tin shacks and the further impoverishment of innocent people? |
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| Michael M Karayanni, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
/ Choice of Law Under Occupation: How Israeli Law Came to Serve Palestinian Plaintiffs |
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| Conflict of laws doctrines can evolve in a manner that accommodates special inter-jurisdictional relations, such as federal and confederate schemes of government. Apparently, such doctrines also evolve in order to accommodate yet another mode of inter-jurisdictional relation, namely that of occupation. This article seeks to explore the molding of Israeli choice-of-law doctrine in respect of civil disputes implicating litigants from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip when these territories were still under total Israeli occupation. Beyond the special conflicts concerns articulated in this context, the articles reveals how choice-of-law fairness concerns could be of special value in the context of territorial occupation - a direction in which two recent Israeli Supreme Court decisions seems to be heading. |
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| [Hebrew U] Israel Law Review/Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on the Occupation |
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The latest issue of the Israel Law Review (Vol. 41, no. 1, 2008) contains a symposium (based on papers presented at this conference) on "Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context." Contents include:
Yuval Shany, Introduction
Martti Koskenniemi, Occupied Zone - A Zone of Reasonableness?
Amichai Cohen, Rules and Standards in the Application of International Humanitarian Law
Yuval Shany, Binary Law Meets Complex Reality: The Occupation of Gaza Debate
Grant Harris, Human Rights, Israel, and the Political Realities of Occupation
Kenneth Watkin, Maintaining Law and Order during Occupation: Breaking the Normative Chains
Yaël Ronen, Illegal Occupation and Its Consequences
Rotem Giladi, The Jus Ad Bellum/Jus in Bello Distinction and the Law of Occupation
Neomi Gal-Or, Suspending Sovereignty: An Alternative to Occupation in the 21st Century?
Tristan Ferraro, Enforcement of Occupation Law in Domestic Courts: Issues and Opportunities |
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| Dr. Rabah Halabi [Hebrew U] participated in a workshop "The Roles of Palestinian Intellectuals in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories" |
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| Dr. Rabah Halabi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem opened the workshop with a review of the effects of the 1967 Israeli occupation on the relations between Palestinians in Israel and the OPT. Halabi argued that it is through the physical-military separation between the two areas that psychological differences grew between the two groups of Palestinians. Halabi also detailed how Israel implements socio-economic policies that further drive a wedge between 1948 and 1967 Palestinians and have a detrimental impact on the identity of Palestinians within Israel. |
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| [Hebrew U, Senior Lecturer in Classics] Amiel Vardi: We urgently need volunteers able to stay some hours with the Da'ana family in Hebron |
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| We urgently need volunteers able to stay some hours with the Da'anafamily in Hebron. The house is the nearest to Federman's outpost, and is underconstant attacks by settlers since last Saturday. Israeli activistswho were there tonight report heavy stoning and attempts to break intothe house. The settlers websites call for an even large event theretoday at 10 AM We urgently need people to replace those already there, to takephotos and help the family in their contact with security forces. |
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| Yael Ronen [postdoctoral fellow, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University] STATUS OF SETTLERS IMPLANTED BY ILLEGAL REGIMES UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW |
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This is not an exhaustive catalogue of regimes that were or still are refused recognition because of their illegality. Conspicuously absent from its coverage is Israel’s purported annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967 and of Golan Heights in 1981. This case differs from others in a number of aspects. Two are particularly important. First, there has been no concrete negotiation over these areas, and therefore there has been absolutely no attempt to regulate the status of Israeli settlers in them. Accordingly, the present study may shed light on potential avenues of discussion, but there is as yet nothing to learn from this case.
Second, the present study concerns situations where the settlers brought in under the illegal regime wish to remain in the territory when sovereignty over it reverts or transfers to a legal
regime. In contrast, Israeli settlers are unlikely to wish to remain in territory under Syrian or Palestinian sovereignty. Thus, their status will raise different questions to those examined
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| [Hebrew U, Senior Lecturer in Classics] Amiel Vardi encouraged his daughter to refuse since the age of 12 |
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But Sahar Vardi, 18, from Jerusalem who, like Mr Nir, refuses to serve because she disagrees with the occupation, said she felt less safe due to Israeli soldiers’ presence in the West Bank.
“I don’t see what they do as protecting me,” she said. “I have no doubt that, at the end of the day, the army’s operations lead more Palestinians to want to commit terror acts against Israelis.”
Ms Vardi, encouraged to become an activist by her father – a university lecturer and activist in a group promoting Arab-Jewish co-operation – participated in her first peace protest at age 12. Since then she has been arrested by police five times in demonstrations whose causes ranged from Palestinian rights to animal protection and teachers’ rights. Her activism on Palestinian issues made her realise she does not want to join the army.
“The more time I spent in the occupied territories, the more I encountered soldiers from their not-so-friendly sides – including shooting at us protesters – the more I realised that this wasn’t a system I wanted to be part of,” she said. |
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| [Hebrew U, Politics] Zeev Sternhell / Colonial Zionism |
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In Zeev Sternhell's latest article, he might consider some kind of apology to the Jewish "settlers" of Judea and Samaria for writing the following in his Haaretz column in 2001:
"...No doubt about the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves. If only the Palestinians had a bit sense, they would have been concentrating their struggle against the settlements, not hurting women and children and would avoid shooting at Gilo, Nahal Oz and Sderot. They should also avoid detonating explosives on the western side of the Green Line. This way the Palestinians themselves would delineate the outline for a solution that will be undoubtedly achieved in the future".
Now Sternhell is saying:
"I explained my position regarding the settlers: The lives of Jews living on both sides of the Green Line are "equally precious." |
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| Hebrew U, Computer Science] About conscientious objector Ofer Neiman who was kicked out of an intelligence unit of the Israeli Air Force |
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While hundreds of Yesh Gvul activists have been jailed for being
conscientious objectors, Ofer Neiman, 37, a computer science lecturer from Jerusalem, was kicked out of an intelligence unit of the Israeli Air Force (AIF) where he served.
"I refused to be part of an intelligence unit which provided information on the possible bombing of civilian targets in the territories," Neiman told IPS. "I also began a campaign of letter writing to the then IDF chief of staff, Dan Halutz."
Halutz was responsible for ordering the dropping of a one-tonne bomb on a crowded residential apartment building in a densely populated Gaza neighbourhood in 2002. The bomb killed Hamas leader Salah Shehade. Amongst the civilian casualties were 14 children. |
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| Bashir Bashir [Hebrew U, Political theory] promotes one-state solution and right of return |
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Palestinians are not only after a workable, sustainable, and viable Palestinian state. This is not what we want. Palestinians are after a sustainable and viable Palestinian state that secures and answers their national right -- that brings them emancipation, national determination, the return of their lands, the 1967 borders, and a solution to the refugee problem including the honoring of the right of return.
If we look at what is happening on the ground, and we look in terms of coming to terms with reconciliation and historical injustice, I think we remain with very few options to come to terms with these historical and empirical de facto things on the ground.
We will come to realize that the one-state solution in the form of a bi-national state where the bi-national state is securing and honoring the collective rights of the Jewish Israelis and the collective rights of the Palestinian Arabs and guaranteeing universal citizenship rights to everyone seems to be the most appealing and desirable solution. |
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| Israel Academia Monitor denounce the attack against Prof' Zeev Sternhell
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| Prominent Israeli historian Professor Ze'ev Sternhell was lightly woundedin the early hours of the morning on Thursday after a pipe bomb went offoutside his front door on Shai Agnon St. in Jerusalem. The explosionoccurred as Sternhell was locking the outer gate of his home at around 1:00am, he sustained minor injuries to his legs and was evacuated to the ShaareZedek Hospital for treatment. Police were alerted to the scene. |
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| About Ze’ev Sternhell [Political Science at the Hebrew U] in "Zionism's dying - a change in Israeli perspective?"
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When the public finally realized that if the Jewish national movement does not absorb universal foundations of human rights, democracy and the rule of law it will doom itself to destruction, a force had already arisen over the Green Line that now threatens to drown all of Israel. Thus a minority took control of the fate of the entire society and held it hostage, due both to the left's ideological impotence and a lack of character, determination and leadership. If society does not find the emotional strength to remove the noose of the settlements, nothing but a sad memory will remain of the Jewish state as it still exists.”
Whether Sternhell's realizations are the harbinger of a change in
perspective of the Israeli public can be judged from the comments - a very curious mix of supportive realism and antagonistic hyperbole. I'll go with comment 107 by
Margot Salom: "its really good to hear about the imminent death of Zionism - let it be quick and allow Jewish ethics to return to Israel." |
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| Anti-Israel David Kretzmer [emeritus, international law, Hebrew U]: Shaul Mofaz committed offences, some of which fall into the category of war crimes |
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David Kretzmer, emeritus professor of international law at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says that accounts of the briefing by Mr Mofaz give rise "to a grave suspicion" that he "committed serious offences, some of which at least, fall into the category of war crimes".
The letter to the Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, refers to a book by two Israeli journalists, Raviv Drucker and Ofer Shelah, which says that Mr Mofaz, after ensuring he was not being officially recorded, called for a Palestinian death toll of 70 per day.
Professor Kretzmer tells Mr Mazuz that one lesson of the corruption inquiry into Mr Olmert is that it is best to investigate candidates for high office before they reach it. |
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| Palestinian conference was held in Paris with Israeli academics such as Ilan Pappe and Zeev Sternhell |
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Zeev Sternhell, an Israeli historian of right-wing European mass movements, professor at the Hebrew University, author of a very important recent book on the myths of Israeli society (the main ones of which -- that it is a liberal, socialist, democratic state -- he demolished completely in an extraordinarily detailed analysis of its illiberal, quasi-fascist, and profoundly anti-socialist character as evidenced by the Labour Party generally, and the Histadrut in particular). ...
Sternhell during the final session admitted that a grave injustice was committed against the Palestinians, and that the essence of Zionism was that it was a movement for conquest, then went on to say that it was a "necessary" conquest.
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| Israel? The mother of all evil - by The Hebrew University's N.Zoagada
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In an attempt "to out-shine" the senior post-Zionist lecturers in their campus, a group of young academics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem established a new left-wing organization that put the onus on Israel for all the ills in the region and see almost nothing wrong on the other side.
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| [Hebrew U, Political Science] Prof' Ze'ev Sternhell spreads his poison in Haaretz, again: "Zionism's dying between Hebron and Yitzhar" |
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The Zionist Enterprise," said Berl Katznelson in 1929, when he summed up the first 10 years of the Ahdut Ha'Avoda movement, is a "conquest enterprise." And in the same breath he added: "It is not by chance that I am using military terms to describe the settlement of the country." And in fact, Zionism was a movement of conquest, and all means were permitted to carry out the task.
However, what was essential and therefore justified in the pre-state days is now assuming an ugly and violent form of colonial occupation: the authoritarian regime in the territories, the creation of two legal systems, the placing of the army and police at the service of the settlement movement, the robbing of Palestinian lands. These all symbolize not the fulfillment of Zionism but rather its burial. It is there, between Hebron and Yitzhar, that the settlements are burying the democratic Jewish state. |
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| HU won't let terrorist finish his doctorate due to security considerations |
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Channel 2 had also reported that a table in the lab had been cleared for Hadmi's return and that the lab director, Prof. Amiram Goldblum, had intimated that Hadmi could potentially return to his studies.
However, Sulitzeanu clarified that while a student had been asked to vacate the office he used once a week, it was not for Hadmi but for a full-time university employee who needed an office five days a week.
"Prof. Goldblum was misquoted by Channel 2 and he plays no part in the decision-making process regarding this matter," the university said in a statement. |
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| Prof' Amiram Goldblum from Hebrew U. to Readmit Convicted Terrorist to Scene of His Crime |
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A radical leftist professor at Hebrew University wants to allow a convicted Arab terrorist who stole bomb-making materials from his lab to be allowed back to the lab, Channel 2 TV reported Sunday.
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| [Hebrew University] Zeev Sternhell speaks of Israel's "Occupation" in: "The ever-rising price" |
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The Six Day War took Israel back an entire generation. It has now become clear that colonial rule encourages the mixture of populations, and occupation requires seeking destructive solutions in terms of human rights. We should not delude ourselves: A democracy of lords will not last long. If we consciously create second-class citizens, if we anchor discrimination in a law armed against the intervention of the Supreme Court - the only gatekeeper of our liberty - we necessarily undermine the foundations of democracy. Universal rights are the heart and soul of a democracy; the moment these are denied to some segments of the population, they will eventually wither away for everyone.
The worst thing of all is anchoring discrimination in law: then it becomes the norm, and society becomes accustomed to it. People will be able to sleep peacefully then, too. |
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| Turning students into anti-israel activists: Hebrew University, Academy-Community Partnership for Social Change |
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Staff
Director
Dr. Daphna Golan, teaches the course "Human Rights in Israeli Society", and directs the The Human Rights Fellows Program, The Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Coordinators
Leah Even
Najwan Khateeb
Moran Roy
Steering Committee
Khuloud Aderis, Co-Director, Mahapach
Jaber Asaqla, Director of Arab Community Programs, SHATIL
Eyad Barghoty, Baladna
Dalia Dromi, Director, Bimkom
Haggith Gor Ziv, Director, Center for Critical Pedagogy, Kibbuzim College of Education
Iman Kassis, Director of Educational Programs, Sawa – Rape Crisis Center, Jerusalem
Enass Masri, SHATIL – Be'er Sheva
Nadem Nashef, Director, Baladna
Fadi Shbeita, Director, Sadaka-Reut
Carlos Sztyglic, Associate Director, SHATIL
Dr. Haim Yacobi, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Adv. Sharon Zionov Arad, Clinical Legal Education Center, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| [Political Science] Dr. Yishai Menuhin, director of PCATI: Eradicate soldier violence against Palestinian detainees |
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A report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
published this morning reveals the widespread phenomenon of violence against bound Palestinian detainees by IDF soldiers and the almost absolute indifference of the IDF, the Ministry of Defense and the Knesset towards the existence of this henomenon and the need to take action in order to eradicate it completely. |
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| [Sociology Dept.] Moshe Zuckermann - A translate from German of "Internal lines separating" |
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The fact that the raison d'etre of the state given hegemony of the Jews are simply not tolerate with the civil claim of a "state of all its citizens."
Without therefore legally to be officially enshrined, in Israel live large Arab minority in practice and in the context of established political institutions to this day as it structurally as a category of second-class citizens. This is not only in the normative angezweifelten legitimacy of Arab parliamentarians as a coalition artner Zionist established parties in crucial issues, such as the radical promotion of the peace process with the
Palestinians, but also to the discrimination against the Arab sector in the development of its infrastructure, the distribution of state economic resources and the general occupation of socially, politically, economically and culturally important items of power and control positions. |
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| Daphna Golan: Israelis imagine they are living in a democracy |
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| She argued that people within both the Israeli and Palestinian communities are in denial. Israelis still deny that Arabs were dispossessed of their homes and land when the Israeli state was founded in 1948 |
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| [General and Comparative Literature] Ilana Hammerman and her group curse soldiers at check points |
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| Moreover, curses and replies like those you gave to the soldiers who were present at the scene shame your position. You are showing weakness and abase yourselves when you curse soldiers. There is no place for a group of people like you for the purpose of observation. |
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| [Hebrew U, Computer Science] Ofer Neiman, in an interview, supports selective sunctions against Israel |
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Ofer Neiman, an activist with Yesh Gvul, at an outdoor cafe just outside the gates of Jerusalem's Old City. The 37-year-old served three years' active duty and nine years as a reservist in an elite intelligence unit of the Israeli Air Force. After observing the role of the Air Force in carrying out operations against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories in violation of international law, Neiman requested and was granted transfer to a non-active unit and later received a standard discharge letter. He was not prosecuted.
Neiman said his group still pursues its original goal of supporting military resisters, but has expanded its efforts to enlist support from people around the world to put pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian lands. |
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| About Late Baruch Kimmerling, Professor of sociology at the Hebrew U, taken from his essay "My Holiday, Their Tragedy"
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The Jewish - Arab conflict, and the Jewish - Palestinian conflict in particular, has had many victims and caused great suffering. I admit that I am closer to the victims from my own people, for personal reasons and because of my familiarity and personal experience with many of them or members of their families. What can I do? A person is closer to his own friends, tribe, and people...
Independence Day is a holiday for me, but also an opportunity for intense self-introspection. A person needs a state and land, and this is my land, my homeland, despite the fact that I was not born here.
And it is also à propos to briefly juxtapose the underlined sentimental statements of Kimmerling's "My Holiday", with those a bit more poignantly expressive of "Their Tragedy" than simply " Jewish - Arab conflict, and the Jewish - Palestinian conflict in particular, has had many victims and caused great suffering", of the late Israeli scholar, Tanya Reinhart, professor of linguistics, also at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, from her 2002 book "How to end the war of 1948": |
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| [Hebrew U] David Shulman work with Palestinian villagers against the Jewish settlers, in: Reading Between the Lines: Celebrating complexity
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Khirbet Khizeh is important for its context - who wrote it and when - not merely its content. S. Yizhar was, of course, the pen name of Yizhar Smilansky, a professor, Knesset member and one of the great scribes of modern Hebrew. Yizhar was a Zionist who helped to shape Israel, politically and culturally. That someone of this ilk could publish Khirbet Khizeh - and in 1949, no less - proves that the founding myths of Israel were not destroyed by the occupation of the West Bank or by the New Historians. The founding myths of Israel were themselves myths. The moral complexities of Israel's birth were clear from the outset, and we can thank Khirbet Khizeh for reminding us of this.
Which is why I must take issue with one aspect of Ibis's Khirbet Khizeh: David Shulman's afterword. Shulman, a professor of Sanskrit at the Hebrew University, is a long-time peace activist. He writes about rereading Khirbet Khizeh in the Palestinian village of Twaneh, where he works with "the villagers, along with other like-minded Israelis, against their common foes, the Jewish settlers intent on terrorizing these people and driving them off their land."
Why include such an ideologically specific essay in a volume that so laudably subverts politics as we know it? I asked Ibis's Hoffman and Cole this in an e-mail, and they acknowledged that Shulman's afterword may be off-putting for some. But they defended the decision. |
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| Dr. Goldberg Amos in solidarity with Palestinians tours Hebron, covered by Arab media
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We first wish to thank you again for joining us in this tour which marked 40 years of violent Israeli settlement in Hebron.
This tour evolved into something we did not wish or plan for. We therefore apologize for those of you who found themselves in a situation they did not really expect to be. However, as a solidarity tour it succeeded beyond our expectations. It became the talk of the day in Hebron and was covered by some of the most important Palestinian newspapers as well as by Aljazeera. In addition this tour delivered a massage to the police, the army and the settlers that they are not the only ones to set the rules in Hebron . There are also Palestinians who wish to non-violently protest and there are Israelis who are willing to join them in that. |
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| The 1970s: The Transformation of Zionism / By Bernard Avishai and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, [Comparative Jewish Literature] |
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| Judaism is a religion disdained in the Christian West, which imposed Israel on Palestine because of guilt |
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| [Language Education, Hebrew U] Nurit Peled Elhanan, invited activist to Holland with 'A Different Jewish Voice' for May 7 Forum
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In Holland, the group A Different Jewish Voice is marking the anniversary by inviting eight Israeli peace activists to a May 7 forum in Amsterdam and a speaking tour of the country. Its Web site says the group “tries to broaden the public debate in the Netherlands about the Middle East conflict and its still one-sided pro-Israel approach.”
The invited activists include Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a founder of the International Committee on Education and Occupation who lost her daughter in a suicide bombing; Esther Goldenberg of Zochrot, which educates the Israeli public about the 1948 Palestinian exodus; and representatives of Combatants for Peace, ex-Israeli soldiers and ex-Palestinian combatants seeking nonviolent solutions to the conflict. |
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| [Education, Hebrew U] Nurit Elhanan-Peled / The Establishment of Israeli Identity through Racist Discourse
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| The paper shows the ways in which ‘others’ (such as Palestinians, Ethiopian Jews or ex-Soviet Union Jews), are represented both in schoolbooks and in teachers’ talk. The paper will argue that Israeli education promotes ‘Elite Racism’ both towards the Palestinian citizens and subjects and towards Jewish new-comers. |
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| Aviv Tatarsky [Math, Hebrew U] a demonstrator in Bilin against the security wall, where every Friday Israeli security forces are being attacked
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| The army lost, the demonstration made it to the fence and also proved that it is nonviolent. Clearly it cannot end this way. We return through a gate that is part of the complex of the fence. The riot police men face us. The final act. We stand in front of them and continue our demonstration. A few dozens of us take stones and start banging on a metal railing that is there – the din is deafening. And then it explodes. The policemen launch into us. When my turn arrives I am surprised by the force with which they yank me away. It’s scary. Other demonstrators grab me and manage to pull me to them. Border policemen jump on a single demonstrator, beating, throwing down, with truncheons too. I go to the side. All the wind is out of my sails. I don’t want to give in to them, but I also don’t want to get beaten up. After this release of rage, a few of the demonstrators go back to the railing and renew the din. Some of the demonstrators were injured by the truncheons, one has fainted. The demonstration is over. |
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| About Amiel Vardi [Classics Dept.] in "Maon infiltrated by Ta'yush activists last Saturday, 23.2.08" |
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| Since I am a member of emergency squad of the settlement, I carry a two-way radio to ensure constant contact between members of the emergency squad. I contacted the Chief security officer of the settlement and informed him that leftist activists had infiltrated the settlement. We continued on our way, believing that this would put an end to the incident. A few minutes later, I got a summons from the Chief security officer of the settlement Chief security officer on the two-way radio calling all members of emergency squad of the settlement to start moving towards the football field. The noise in the background sounded like a pursuit or a confrontation of some kind. We arrived at the football field, where, at that very same time, an assembly of the Bnei Akiva youth movement was taking place. All the children of the settlement were either on the field or close by. I ran into the field, and saw a skinny, mustached activist, apparently the leader of the group. Later on, it transpired that this was Dr. Amiel Vardi, a history lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We discovered this because the photographer, the Chief security officer daughter, was one of Dr Vardi’s students at the university. 5 activists, some of whom were not even Israelis, accompanied Dr. Vardi. |
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| Noa Epstein, MA student: such a decision to close October 2000 riots case has no place in a civilized, democratic state |
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We, the Zionist Israelis who feel the Arab minority's pain, believe such a decision has no place in a civilized, democratic state," said Noa Epstein, who met one of the victims, Asil Asala, during a "Seeds of Peace" summer camp in 1997.
"As friends of Asil and as citizens of this country, we hoped the
investigation would point to the guilty parties," she said. "It's
inconceivable that no one was found to be at fault for what happened. This decision endangers Israel's democracy." Epstein continued to say "I know for a fact that Asil was murdered. (During the riots) he was sitting at the Lotam Junction (near Sakhnin), wearing a shirt reading 'Seeds of Peace'. He wasn't demonstrating - he was just an observer. Asil believed in co-existence." |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan and activists in "Israeli Coalition Against the Siege organizes nation-wide relief convoy to Gaza border and simultaneous, cross-border demonstrations against the siege with Palestinians in Gaza and Ramallah." |
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| Unlike what we have been made to believe, residents of Sderot and residents of Gaza are not to be seen as opponents: both are victims of a stupid and vicious policy of the Government of Israel. |
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| "On the Necessity of Refusal" / by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
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It is time to tell Jewish children that the only way to discourage anti-Semitism is by condemning the only government in the world who deliberately sends young Jewish boys and girls to their certain death and who persecutes to the point of genocide a whole Semitic nation, explain to them that this government and the actions of its army, not some primordial hatred for the Jewish race, are the reasons for the invention of the new sign where t he Star of David is equated with the swastika.
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| [Hebrew University] Late Dr. Israel Shahak, 'The Wicked Son' |
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He went on to become a professor of organic chemistry (he taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University for 25 years), but it was as a so-called human rights activist that he made a name for himself.
This, however, was no garden variety bleeding-heart leftist. Shahak not only came to despise Zionism and consider the establishment of the State of Israel a criminal act; he also set out to expose what he considered the depravities and hypocrisies of rabbinic Judaism – and to do so in as public a manner as possible.
Because he downplayed Jewish suffering in favor of painting Jews and Israelis as serial oppressors, Shahak had little patience with the notion that the Holocaust had a profound impact on either the Israeli psyche or Israeli policy-making. To him, Jews were victimizers, not victims. |
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| Dr. Roni Hammermann, MachsomWatch - Israeli women against the Israeli Occupation of the territories and the systematic repression of the Palestinian nation
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| Issa received a phone call. Soldiers have invaded a house in the Kasba, performed searches, rummaged in the wardrobe, broke furniture, and left the house in havoc. Issa was expected there in order to take testimonies and to document what happened. We have asked to accompany him...When we left at about 17:00 we realized that we have received a tiny taster of the famous 'Hebron mix' -- life between fanatic, unscrupulous Settlers and bored, power thirsty soldiers |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan's study about the presentation of the Palestinians in Israeli schoolbooks |
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The denial of Palestinian national and territorial identity is still one of the core messages of Israeli textbooks. In a recent study of Israeli textbooks Firer (2004:75) claims that "as political correctness has reached Israel it is no longer appropriate to use blunt, discriminatory language in textbooks", and then adds that in the years 1967-1990 "the stereotypes of Arabs and Palestinians almost disappear" (ibid. p. 92). However, examining mainstream school books that were published after 1994, including the ones Firer praises most for political correctness, one cannot avoid seeing that visually and verbally, Palestinians are still represented either in a racist stereotypical way, or as absent people, namely as an 'impersonalized' or excluded element.
The Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel are always depicted dichotomously as "Israel' Arabs" vs. the Israelis, or as the "Non-Jewish population" vs. the Jewish one. |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan: “In the State of Israel the Jewish mother is disappearing” |
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| Dr. Haggai Katriel, Mathematics Department, Hebrew University claims to live in "Palestine" in anti-Israel petition |
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| In an anti-Israel petition Haggai Katriel, an Activist who lives in Palestine (Haifa) |
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| Tamar Yarom, professor at the Hebrew University, produces anti-Israel propaganda film |
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Yarom has chosen six Israeli female soldiers out of dozens who served in the occupied Palestinian territories and incorporated their testimonies and experience in the film.
"I am very grateful for these six girls who had a great amount of courage to perform self-criticism in front of the camera, making one of my dreams come true," says Yarom. She adds, "I have served in the West Bank during the first Intifada in 1987 - 1988, and when I finished my service I wondered 'how would a woman like me take part in suppressing and oppressing another nation, how can a gentle woman remain silent regarding this cruel violence against the Palestinian people?'
The number of Israeli soldiers who refused to serve in the occupied territories is growing, slowly though. It has reached up to 629 according to an Israeli group called, Courage to Refuse. |
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| The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem proposes a summer program for future American diplomats that will cast Israel as a “human rights abuser” |
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Clearly, this summer program is a propaganda course with some of Israel’s worst internal and subversive enemies from academia who prefer to not be recognized as Jews, but as communist, anarchists, or whatever who will help dismantle the state for some utopian replacement where the Arabs will rule all the land and welcome the Jews into their bosom with peace, harmony and love. Anyone who knows how Jews have been treated in Muslim countries for the last 2,000 years would consider that delusional. The Minerva Center program certainly won’t be balanced or scholarly accurate and students who go through such a program will come away with the idea that Israel is the worst abuser of human rights in the world when things are the opposite.
But then again, that is the intent of the program and the University Denver needs to know the truth about it before such a program is allowed on its campus. Hebrew University needs to scrap this proposal, as well, as an embarrassment to the academic community in Israel. |
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| Daphna Golan, Law Faculty, Hebrew University, wants the public schools to be turned into extremist indoctrination centers |
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It's unclear whether they managed to study about Palestinian civilian democratic society, which Israel destroyed in the 1990s.
But the future of the youngsters who are sitting in jail, far from their families, is tied up with the future of Israeli youth who are about to take the bagrut exam in Civics. Will they find the way to a respectful citizenship and one that respects all other human beings - which makes it possible for everyone to participate in a democratic way of life and observes their rights as individuals and as part of a group? How I hope that they will find another way to earn citizenship in the country or in countries of peace, and not a life under occupation or in a country that is neither Jewish nor democratic. |
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| THE Hebrew University ACADEMIC EXTREMIST WHO BOYCOTTED THE USA |
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Professor Daniel Amit, a prominent scientist at the universities of Jerusalem and Rome, known for its anti Zionist and anti-American views, passed away on the day of Rabin's assassination. The Israeli media ignored it.
Daniel Amit captured some headlines after the outbreak of the Iraqi war when he refused to review an article for the American journal Physical Review. In a letter to Martin Blume, the editor in Chief of the Physical Society, he wrote bluntly:" I will not, at this point, correspond with any American institution. Some of us lived through 1939".
In the exchange that followed his refusal, he wrote to the stunned editor of his motives. "What we are watching today, I believe, is a culmination of 10 to 15 years of mounting barbarism of the American culture the world over. It is crowned by achievements of science and technology as major weapons of mass destruction". He labeled the war as a "manhunt and wanton killing of a type and scale not seen since the raids on American-Indian population…".
Amit's radical views did not surprise his colleagues in both Israel and Italy, but they caught the attention of the Arab Media. The Saudi owned website Arab News was quick to interview him shortly afterwards without mentioning his Israeli citizenship. but by emphasizing his Jewishness. In that interview Amit attacked American academic and scientific institutions for making themselves available in the service of their country's war machine. |
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| Daphna Golan-Agnon, advocate of anti-Israelism |
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The first Intifada was at its peak when I completed my PhD and I became actively involved in establishing B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, established in February 1989. I was its founding Research Director, in charge of establishing the data collection, research, and publication of the organization. I also researched and wrote some of the reports myself.
"I felt that my contribution to a human rights culture in Israel was more important than my research on South Africa and that learning and teaching the universal language of human rights was particularly important at that time of social disruption and violence. In 1989 I applied and was accepted for an international intensive program on Human Rights and International Law at the International School for Human Rights in Strasbourg, designed for University teachers outside the legal profession. |
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| (Law) Daphna Golan-Agnon's Political indoctrination seminar sponsored by Hebrew University |
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| The seminar consisted of 37 workshops, held throughout the different time units. During each time unit 6 parallel sessions were held, and students were able to choose in which workshop they wish to participate. Further to the workshops, study tours were held to two Palestinian villages uprooted in 1948, and movie space was organized for viewing and discussion of documentaries. The workshops discussed issues such as: education, media, environment and ecology, Israeli society, economy, and feminism. About half of the workshops were facilitated by students, while the other half was facilitated by representatives of social change organizations and faculty members. Jewish and Palestinian partnership was emphasized in the seminar, expressed in the issues discussed in the workshops, and in the participation of Palestinian civil society organizations. |
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| A "Palestine conference" celebrating the anti-Israel "research" of the late Hebrew University "Post-Zionist" sociologist Baruch Kimmerling |
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“The ‘Politicide’ of the Palestinian People”
Friday 2 November 2007
The 2007 Palestine Center Annual Conference will examine these events and analyze their consequences and Israel’s policies in dealing with the Palestinians’ struggle for their existence. The conference is based on the work of Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling. In his book, Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War against the Palestinian People, (Verso, 2003), he defines “Politicide” as the “process that has, as its ultimate goal, the dissolution of Palestinians’ existence as a legitimate social, political and economic entity.” |
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| Yuval Shany, law school, celebrates Prosecution of Israeli Soldiers and Leaders as "War Criminals" |
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| It would appear that the message coming now from New York is that in an age when the enforcement of international law, both on the civil and criminal level, has become a global matter, the state's eschewal of conducting a serious investigation into the complaints of suspicion of international crimes being committed by its citizens, and the denial of the right to file claims of damages by the victims of Israel's military actions, does not grant broad legal protection to its soldiers and citizens, as might have been assumed. On the contrary, broadening the state's immunity considerably increases the risk of having suits filed against Israeli soldiers and citizens in less friendly legal forums and under far harsher legal conditions. As a result, there is a serious likelihood that Almog and Dichter will not be the last Israelis to find themselves open to "intifada suits" abroad. |
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| Hebrew University summer seminar denounces Israel one-sidedly for "human rights abuses" |
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Israel's Human Rights Problems from an International Perspective
The course will be taught by Dr. Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Academic Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The course will introduce the students to Israel's legal system and will critically evaluate whether the protections it affords to human rights meet international standards (in particular, the six major human rights treaties to which Israel is party). It will specifically address the following issues: the application of human rights treaties in the occupied territories, security-based restrictions upon human rights (e.g., the 'ticking bomb' scenario), the duty to respect the rights of enemy citizens, the status of the Arab minority within Israel, the status of women in Israel, trafficking in persons and freedom of religion and cultural relativity problems. Reading material to the course will include Israeli Supreme Court Decisions, UN and NGO reports, academic book segments and articles and some comparative law sources. |
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| Hebrew University's Victoria Buch (chemistry) claims Israel is a criminal state conducting "ethnic cleansing" on anti-Semitic Counterpunch web site |
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| The stage for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been set in the Occupied Territories, and ethnic cleansing is in progress. At present, this is the major project of the State of Israel. For an impartial person of medium intelligence, a tour of the Occupied Territories may be sufficient to understand this fact. The prime ethnic cleansing tool is, forever, Palestinian land grab in conjunction with settlement expansion. Various stages of annexation process are in evidence in the originally rural part of the West Bank, constituting 60% of its area. By now, nine percent of the West Bank land has been transferred to the direct control of the settlements [1]. A recent Peace Now investigation revealed that only 12 percent of this land is being used at all. |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan denounces Israelis for being violent murdering racists |
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Well done, IDF! Well done, Israeli Jewish education, that has succeeded nearly perfectly in bestowing the values of racism, nearly without opposition.
And if my son Yigal really does want to participate in the military programs that they impose on high school students starting in grade 10, or God forbid, to enlist in the army of occupation and torment, I will see it as a dreadful educational failure. A terrible maternal failure. And if I do not do everything I can to prevent him from becoming a murderer or a corpse at age of 18 I will know that I betrayed him and my vocation as a mother. |
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| Nina Mayorek with MachsomWatch [Senior Biochemist In the Department of Human Nutrition] |
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| The occupier 'generously' arranged such a well signed-posted parking lot with clear markings in blue and white colors where parking is allowed ...Israel is really happy with the present situation –the economy is booming, Palestinian suicide bombing is nil for over a year, some shelling on Sderot provides a pleasant boost for a constant feeling of victim-hood and a very much needed argument that 'we also suffer'. |
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| David Shulman (Sanskrit Studies) shills for Taayoush and similar anti-Israel groups
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| Israeli peace activists don’t expect to be popular. Although by all accounts most Israelis do want peace and would accept any reasonable compromise, they normally react with bitter scorn and hatred for anyone who seems to cross the lines. Organizations like mine, Ta’ayush—“Jewish-Arab Partnership,” one of the most effective of the peace groups operating at the grassroots level in the occupied territories—are viewed as naïve at best, treasonous at worst. Last month’s events in Gaza confirmed everyone’s worst prejudices. “You want to make peace with them?” my neighbors asked me in supercilious tones. “Can’t you see that they’re all violent thugs? Why are you helping them?” |
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| Dudy Tzfati, a genetics researcher in 'Bonded in Resistance to the Barrier Palestinian Villagers, Jewish Neighbors Warily Join Forces' |
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| Why is there this wall? Why is there this trouble?" asked Tzfati, who moved to Tzur Hadassah three years ago. "Because people do not see Wadi Fukin." |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan (education, Hebrew U): A Jerusalem Mother's Statement about how Israel is the Kingdom of Evil |
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| But today I know that there is yet another division in Israel: On the face of the earth there rules the kingdom of evil, where for the last 34 years, people who call themselves leaders have earned, through democratic means, the right to kill and destroy and be as vile and corrupt as they please, to have young boys become expert killers, whether in the name of God, of the good of the nation, or in the name of honour and of courage. But these evil people have created yet another kingdom, a glorious kingdom that flourishes and grows larger and larger every day - a kingdom that lives and breathes under our feet, under the earth we walk on. |
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| Ofer Neiman, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University, finds some "state terrorism." Not by Iran, but by Israel. |
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| Neiman said that both sides were guilty of "state-sponsored terrorism, whether it's shooting an unarmed civilian or being a suicide bomber." |
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| Hebrew University capitulates to its campus anti-Zionists! |
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| Professors at the Hebrew University have been jihading against the plan to open a special program for officers in Israel's intelligence services. Yesterday they got their way. The Hebrew University's administration yesterday voted to cancel the program. |
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| A One-Sided anti-Israel Propaganda course by Baruch Kimmerling, Hebrew University, Department of Sociology
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The encounter between the Jewish immigrant-settler society and native Arabs of Palestine had enormous impact on the historical and social development of both people. The local Arab society (that later defined themselves as Palestinians) and that fragment of the Jewish people that immigrated to Zion and felt as homecoming after 2,000 years of exile both had strong sense of belongings to the land and regarded it as their exclusive land. Both felt existentially threaten by the political aims and desires of the other people. Retrospectively, the relations between both people appear to be an inevitable zero-sum total conflict, of “either we or they”. However, the dynamics of the relations was much more complex, and the aim of this course is to examine in a
systematic way the major developments and impacts of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within some comparative and theoretical context (free from ideological bias).
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| Reuven Kaminer, Vice-Provost of the School for Overseas Students, doesn't think Critics of Israeli Leftists should be entitled to express their opinions |
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| The hired intellectuals here had been programmed to answer charges of genocide, but they were thrown into total confusion when Kimmerling refined the charge and accused Israel of perpetrating the major crime of politicide against the Palestinian people. This charge is clear: Israel’s policies are calculated to eliminate the Palestinian people’s aspirations for national survival. Some of you may have come across a group of right wing Jewish loonies on the internet by the name “Israel-academic-monitors”. Well, the loonies have a zombie machine that scans the net for any appearance by a democratic Israeli academician. Automatically, they send out links to what they consider “anti-Israeli” or anti-Semitic statements made by that academician. Well, the loonies’ zombie machine sighted Baruch Kimmerling’s name in articles on his death and sure enough, the emails warning the world about Baruch Kimmerling are now scattered all over the net. Of course, they – the monitors - would explain that it is all automatic. Even so, I ask them, gentlemen, have you no shame? |
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| Moshe Zimmerman (history) denounces Israelis for being racists |
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| “The Israeli youth sees Poles as second-class humans, and treat them as potential enemies”, said Professor Moshe Zimmerman of the Hebrew University’s History Department |
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| Yaron Ezrahi, Department of Political Science finds some apartheid and some colonialism -- endorsing Jimmy Carter's anti-Semitic book |
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Appearing recently in a debate on Israeli television, Ezrahi called the occupation — now in its 40th year — “a classic colonial enterprise” that uses an “apartheid system” of economic and political discrimination to separate Israeli Jews and Palestinians in the territory. He readily defends a book by former President Jimmy Carter, whose title —“Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” — provoked American Jewish critics to vilify the 39th president as an anti-Semite.
“If Carter were to give a lecture in Jerusalem and he were to say this is apartheid in the West Bank, I would say, yes, I support you. This is exactly the case,” Ezrahi said in an interview. |
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| Ofer Neiman from Hacampus-lo-shotek calls to prevent Israeli army from catching terrorists |
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[Hacampus-lo-shotek] Fwd:**EMERGENCY ACTION NEDDED** 17 years old kidnapped by the Israeli army
On April 18, around midnight, the Israeli army attacked the home of peace activist Refai Fayyed in the village of Zbabdeh near Jenin. The IDF terrorized the Fayyed family with attack dogs, beat them, forced them out of their home, trashed their home, destroyed computers and personal property, and kidnapped Refai's brother Mohammad Abdulla Asaad Fayyad who is 17 years old high school student. |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan (education) in: "Two schools of thought" - Both of them Anti-Israel? |
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| The Israeli narrative is a very stable, fixed -- ancient, almost -- narrative. I think it's very racist because Palestinians don't exist in this narrative at all," said Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a professor in Tel Aviv University's School of Education. |
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| Professor David Schulman, a lecturer in Sanskrit at the Hebrew University, Claims Israel is bulldozing Palestinian homes for the fun of it. |
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The Israeli Army continued its efforts to drive them away. "There was repeated harassment," said Professor Schulman, a lecturer in Sanskrit at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. |
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| What should one call Israel? "Apartheid," answers Victoria Buch, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University |
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The State of Israel calls it “fight for existence” or “fight against terror”. Its detractors call it “colonization”, “apartheid”, or “ethnic cleansing”. Baruch Kimmerling coined the term “politicide of Palestinians”. Edward Said spoke of slow bleeding. Recently, even words such as “genocide”[1] have been used. Let us try to define the Israeli policy, and then grapple with the question of proper naming.
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan (education) and Friends Call for a "Cultural Boycott of Israel" |
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We, the undersigned Palestinian filmmakers and artists, appeal to all artists and filmmakers of good conscience around the world to cancel all exhibitions and other cultural events that are scheduled to occur in Israel, to mobilize immediately and not allow the continuation of the Israeli offensive to breed complacency. Like the boycott of South African art institutions during apartheid, cultural workers must speak out against the current Israeli war crimes and atrocities.
We call upon the International community to join us in the boycott of Israeli film festivals, Israeli public venues, and Israeli institutions supported by the government, and to end all cooperation with these cultural and artistic institutions that to date have refused to take a stand against the Occupation, the root cause for this colonial conflict.
236.Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Israel |
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| Amiel Vardi [Senior Lecturer in Classics], invites people to go for "Nakba tours" to learn why Israel should not Exist |
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| During the Nakba of 1948, 17,000 Palestinians were expelled from Al-Ramle, nearly all of the city's inhabitants, despite it was not included in the Jewish territory according to the 1947 UN Partition Plan. One can not understand the origins of racism expressed by Ramle's Mayor Mr. Yoel Lavi, without being familiar with the ethnic cleansing of Al-Ramle in July 1948. |
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| Israel's racist policies towards Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who was stopped at the airport and wasn't allowed to to fly to Tunisia |
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Dear friends, The following messages is a chilling reminder of what does it mean to live in a Jewish state. It is urgent that we do all we can to let the Israeli authorities know that their racist policies are not done in our name. As you can see being an "israeli citizen" does not protect you from abuse at the airport if you happen (God forbid) not to be Jewish!!! Some time ago it was the other way around!!!
Nobody deserves to be humiliated. |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan (education): Israelis and Americans are Running around Performing Massacres |
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| Not only American soldiers but also Israeli soldiers who actually perform massacres of 'Arabs' - Palestinian or Lebanese - may never see an Arab human face until they are drafted to the army, but they learn, for 12 long years, that these people are primitive, bear children in order to send them to the streets and throw stones at our peace-keeping soldiers, uneducated because they don't receive our education, conniving and dirty because they have different notions about politeness, they dress differently and cover their heads with different pieces of cloth. Well, from my experience there are many more Kafiehs in the camp of peace lovers than there are kippas. Israeli children are deprived from knowing their immediate neighbours, their history and their culture and their merits. Israeli children are educated to see their neighbours as an unwanted element. This is not education, this is mind infection. |
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| Ofer Neiman from computer science supports the Irish boycott of Israel |
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| "...If you support the letter, please contact the Irish embassy, and let them know that such *SELECTIVE* sanctions against the occupation are justified, and that the Irish government should do much more to oppose the current racist and violent Israeli policies..." |
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| Zeev Sternhell (political Science) says Israel is trying to destroy Lebanon at US Request |
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And a word about the price of American support. Sometimes it seems as if U.S. President George W. Bush wants Israel both to destroy Lebanon and to sustain painful losses. That way, Israel provides him with an excellent alibi for the war in Iraq: The fight against terror is global, the blood price is the same, the methods of operation and the means are identical, and the time needed for victory is long. The Israeli vassal is serving its master no less than the master is providing for its needs.
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| Louise Bethlehem Praises Haaretz' Gideon Levy (who wants Israel to be annihilated) for his "highlight the shameful capitulation of Jewish-Israeli civil society to "chauvinism and ruthlessness", |
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' At times of "moral blackout" Gideon Levy's insistence on reminding us of the importance--and vulnerability--of Lebanese civil society and Nazir Majali's corresponding focus on Palestinian citizens of Israel in the north, are especially valuable. Together they highlight the shameful capitulation of Jewish-Israeli civil society to "chauvinism and ruthlessness", with some notable exceptions.'
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| Classics Professor Amiel Vardi is with the Israeli/Palestinian Human Rights Group Ta'Ayush |
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Prof. VARDI: Well, it is quite clear that the fence-the (unintelligible) fence- is used to an annex land, to extend settlements and very often to make the lives of the Palestinians that are included within it so impossible that they are forced to leave. And to tell you the truth, it's working.
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| Et tu, Hebrew U? A Student describes anti-Israel Brainwashing at the Hebrew University
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Labeling Israel an aggressive “Goliath” victimizing the helpless Palestinian “David” distorts the conflict’s true scope – that of a tiny island of Jewish sovereignty surrounded by more than a few genocidal extremists. Like every democracy on Earth, Israel is flawed. Does this mean the Jewish state has no more intrinsic value than a “Jewish chair,” as my professor implied?
I respect the academic freedom and vigorous discourse abundant at my school; however, the international division of Israel’s flagship university bears a special responsibility to students and supporters. If Israel cannot receive a fair hearing in the hallowed halls of Mt. Scopus, where can it? |
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| Victoria Buch (chemistry) invents some New History |
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'My country Israel chose to forgo a historic opportunity for peace with the Palestinians. The Palestinian President Abbas was willing to make a compromise, based on reasonable principles. '
It is a lie that "Israeli Jews are a peace-loving people. In recent times, they have been regretfully forced to fight for their very existence, with the help of a moral and heroic army," she says. |
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| Haggai Katriel, Mathematics department , gets arrested while part of violent demonstration -
His anarchist friends are outraged! |
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| Haggai Katriel joins the violent anarchist thugs who attack soliders and policemen |
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| Baruch Kimmerling (sociology) denounces Patriotism on Campus - thinks only Anti-Israel Leftists are entitled to Freedom of Speech |
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| In fact every faculty member who appears in the public sphere and doesn’t adopt an ultra-nationalist stance has an excellent chance of having his or her words taken out of context or reinterpreted and of being labeled a “self-hating Jew” or a “traitor.” |
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| Dr. Haggai Katriel, Mathematics department at HU, is facing prosecution for violation of public order and violence |
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| Here is a letter posted by Haggai's parents, Tamar Katriel a professor of communication at University of Haifa, who also prefers a Palestinian State rather than an Israeli one, and her husband Jacob Katriel, Emeritus form the Technion who demonstrates in Billin every Friday against the construction of the security fence, are calling for moral support as Haggai Katriel was arrested while demonstrating and now is facing trial. Strangely enough, Haggai works at the Hebrew University, school of Mathematics under professor Matania Ben- Artzi who also calls for the destruction of Israel and is the father of Yoni Ben-Artzi who is a Refusnik. |
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| What is this title supposed to mean / Victoria Buch |
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Dear Haaretz - what is this title "Settlers torch two Palestinian homes in Hebron in protest" supposed to mean!? You do not use titles such as "Palestinian suicide bomber bombed an Israeli bus in protest". And justly so, although Palestinians surely have more to protest about than state-subsidized hoodlooms in Hebron.
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| Prof. Victoria Buch shills for jailed Terrorist Accomplice Tali Fahima |
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Solitary confinement for Tali Fahima is a disgrace
But a punishment for an unarmed Israeli activist for the "crime" of befriending Palestinians is administrative detention, torture, and solitary confinement. And let us recall hundreds of Palestinians currently under admistrative detention, without a prospect for a fair trial, with rubber-stamp judges obediently extending every few months their incarceration. And the mainstream Israeli citizens who do not want to know anything about it, and who keep repeating propaganda mantras to justify their collaboration with the Occupation. That is Israel 2005 for you, in a nutshell. |
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| DAPHNA GOLAN-AGNON (law, Hebrew University) criticizes boycotters of Israel for not boycotting Israel ENOUGH!!! |
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This year, she says, students have worked with Amnesty International, the Israel Commission Against Torture, teaching other students and poor youth about empowerment, with the Association for the Rights of the Child and the Association for Civil Rights.
Asked for her views on the recent vote, which has since been overturned, by the UK Association of University Teachers to boycott Israeli universities Bar-Ilan and Haifa, she replies: "As somebody who was active in the anti-apartheid movement, I see the strength of boycotts. But I have a problem with this one in a few ways. In taking on only Bar-Ilan and Haifa - well, I think you do a boycott or you don't do one. You cannot be half-pregnant.
"I also wouldn't start with an academic boycott. I would start with an economic boycott, like South Africa.
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Maybe I'm naive. But I think that this war on Islam that the US is leading now - it's a terrible war. I'm hoping that they'll understand that it is better to have some gift to the Islamic world, peace in Jerusalem.
"The sad point," she adds, "is that many Israelis think that the wall is a help. It's not only evil but it's also stupid. In the year 2005, you think that you can build a wall and it's going to save you? How stupid can you be?"
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| Dalya Markovich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem's school of education., thinks Israeli universities are dens of oppression and discrimination |
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What has become of the Israeli university since the days of Brith Shalom, a movement founded by a group of Hebrew University intellectuals to promote Jewish-Arab bi-nationalism? Who are the successors of Yesh, a socialist group that sprang up at the University of Haifa, or Campus, a radical organization at Tel Aviv University? How is it that the university has become the executive arm of state goals? Why are students identifying with "the system" and allowing the learning process to be turned into an instrument of utilitarianism? How did the university become both the goods and the guild? How has academic research become subservient to the needs of the army, industry and financiers?
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| Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian claims Palestinian girls are often subjected to harassment by Israeli soldiers |
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Any Palestinian over the age of 12 must have a permit to cross gates in the wall that are only open 55 minutes of the day,” Kevorkian explained. “This puts a special burden on young girls who must line up every day to go through the wall to their schools and who often are subjected to harassment by [Israeli] soldiers.
“Fathers are humiliated to stand by helplessly as their daughters are searched,” she noted. “So they keep their daughters at home to avoid the searches, and they force them to marry early. |
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| Baruch Kimmerling (sociology) reverses cause (terrorism) and effect (Israeli military response) in Orwellian fashion |
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| The Israeli conditions, however, are based on an incorrect perception of the causality and logic of the conflict-the presumption that the root of the violence lies in 'Palestinian terrorism', rather than in Israel's generation-long occupation and illegal colonization of Palestinian lands and its exploitation and harassment of the entire people. |
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| When the anti-Israel sentiment comes from within |
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| For years, Jewish organizations and their leaders seeking to contend with blatant anti-Israel statements have encountered the response, "What do you mean? Similar statements are made in Israel, by Israelis." |
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| A SHAME OF TWO UNIVERSITIES |
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| Help! Rape! |
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If one just records a bunch of interviews, and then ignores what is inconvenient to one's thesis, then there is no point in doing any research. The conclusions will be the same at the end of the "study" as they were before you started. If Nitzan had examined a thousand soldiers picked at random and asked them a few dozen questions, quantified the results and perhaps compared those results to those of civilians and to American soldiers in Iraq, we might have some real answers to her question. On the other hand, for all we know, the real real answer may lie in the amount of saltpeter that is put in the army food.
This study was given an award by the Israel sociology association. We can imagine what the others are like. In my most humble opinion, because this paper lacks scientific method or any attempt at objectivity, it is not worthy of a Masters thesis or even an undergraduate seminar work in a scientific discipline. It might be entertaining reading. However, the definition of what is science and what is not science is up to the practitioners of a particular discipline and it varies between disciplines and in different eras. Phrenology used to be thought to be science, and Lysenkoism was accepted in the USSR. Barely intelligible functionalist jargon ruled US sociology departments. My opinion is now generally thought to be an example of "positivist empiricist facticity." If the Hebrew University says it is science, and the sociologists insist it is good science, who am I to challenge them?
For all its faults and contradictions and shoddy and tendentious logic, however, this work is not really as blatantly absurd as Fendel and Lord try to make out, and they would have a tough time proving their point from the actual text. |
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history): The Torah is comparable to Hitler's "Mein Kampf" |
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| "Professor Moshe Zimmerman of Hebrew University compared the Torah with "Mein Kampf," as a racist blueprint for the destruction of other peoples and likened the children of Kiryat Arba, the Jewish community outside Hebron, to Hitler Youth. How was Professor Zimmerman's hateful extremism answered? He was recruited to the Ministry of Education and placed in charge of developing history curriculum for Israeli schools." |
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| Deconstructing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| Deconstructionism has long been linked with Marxism, a rather strange combination - given the insistence by deconstructionists that they should never claim to “know” anything. Marxists claim to know everything, based on ridiculous “theories” by Marx disproved 150 years ago, making the Marxist-Deconstructionist axis rather queer. It also sometimes calls itself post-colonialism, apparently because some of its Frenchie inventors came from Algeria, although I have never understood how it can be certain that anything or anyone was ever colonized or colonizer. |
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history): The children of the settlers in Hebron are exactly like the Hitler Youth
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| "Since I was three or four years old I have been put off by those people," he said as we slowly walked in the narrow streets of Me'a She'arim, "already as a child I did not like to come here." |
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| Shame on the Hebrew University |
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"Invoking academic freedom, the heads of Israeli academe defend venomous expressions against Israel. But the Rector of the Hebrew University has mustered his authority to silence criticism of the venom spreaders. "
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology): The Hebrew University's Leading anti-Zionist |
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A review of Baruch Kimmerling's two books on Palestine, The Palestinian People and Politicide:
"But the most important reason to pass over Kimmerling's book is its Orwellism. There is indeed a political entity in the Middle East whose entire raison d'etre is the "politicide" or destruction of another nation: the PLO. The Middle East conflict is indeed all about attempted annihilation of a nation, but Kimmerling -- characteristically -- has things exactly in reverse."
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| ADL wants Hebrew U. professor Moshe Zimmerman (history) to be Prosecuted for anti-Semitic Incitement |
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Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, wants Hebrew University to take action in response to statements made by the chair of the institution's German Studies department, Prof. Moshe Zimmerman, who likened Israel Defense Forces soldiers and other Israeli authorities to Nazis.
In a letter sent to Hebrew University President Prof.
Menachem Magidor, Foxman writes that while every professor has the right to express his or her opinion, the university administration is obliged to consider taking action when certain opinions cross the line and are damaging to the institution and the Jewish people. |
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| Nurit Peled-Elhanan bashing Israel in a speech on International Women's Day at the EU Parliament
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I must admit I believe you should have invited a Palestinian woman at my stead, because the women who suffer most from violence in my county are the Palestinian women. And I would like to dedicate my speech to Miriam R'aban and her husband Kamal, from Bet Lahiya in the Gazza strip, whose five small children were killed by Israeli soldiers while picking strawberries at the family's strawberry field. No one will ever stand trial for this murder.
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| Victoria Buch (chemistry): Israel's "Racism" is the Worst in the World |
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"....The text tier of the mental “separation fence”
is composed of the paranoia-cum-victim-complex,
which is diligently cultivated by our
government. For example Israelis are told that
Europe is anti-Semitic and there are many people
there who want to destroy us.Certainly, one
can find Jew-haters in Europe. But the European
racism is directed much more against Muslims
and Africans than against Jews, and in any
case the level of racism is nothing compared
to that practiced by Israel towards Palestinians.
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| MEIRA WEISS - a Feminist Liar? |
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This racialist nonsense, it goes without saying, has already been picked up by anti-Semitic and neonazi web sites as “evidence” of the depravity and racism of Jews.
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| About BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) in "The Tale of the Reversed Narrative" |
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| Post-Zionism I consider the most deconstructionist (no pun intended) unarmed threat to Israel's security and future existence. The Hebrew University's Baruch Kimmerling, a leading icon of this camp, published an example of its outlook this December at the trendy Salon.com web site. Entitled "The Two Catastrophes", he asserted, in a claim of fatuous equivalency, that both Israelis and Palestinians have memories "marked by inconceivable tragedy" that need be understood so that each can move beyond the past. |
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| About Baruch Kimmerling in "False Narrative of Post Zionism" (Jerusalem Post) |
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Kimmerling and too many other post-Zionists promote the false idea that Israel was founded upon the ruins of an Arab society and culture.
The truth is just the other way around.
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology): Israel's Very Culture is Violent and Evil |
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The remembrance of Trumpeldor's death at Tel Hai, argues Zertal, marked the beginning of a cult of death among Israeli Jews. The "new Jewish man," in this ideology, was ready to make the ultimate sacrifice, to die defending his land and people, in stark contrast with Diaspora Jews, who would later be depicted as weaker souls who went "like lambs to the slaughter" in the Holocaust. The voices arguing that it is better to live for one's country than to die for it were accordingly stifled and silenced. It is deeply ironic that the very same society now claims to be shocked by the "martyrdom culture" in the occupied territories.
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) thinks suicide attacks were "appropriate" although boomeranged by making Israel even more oppressive |
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Four and a half years of systematic destruction of the infrastructures of the Palestinian society, the physical and political liquidation of their leadership and the unrelenting injury to the population were intended to demonstrate the real balance of forces on the ground and to get the Palestinians to accept a kind of "Versailles treaty" in which they would agree to any Israeli "peace formula." The Palestinian use of suicide bombers, which at first looked, from the Palestinian side, as an appropriate response, supposedly able to offset Israel's total military superiority, turned out to be a boomerang, because it gave Israel internal and external legitimacy to make use of unrestrained force and to describe the Palestinians' desperate war for independence as part of international terrorism.
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) thinks the "catastrophe" that befell the Arabs when Israel was created is equivalent to the Nazi Holocaust |
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In 1948, the Jews carried out ethnic cleansing. Most
of the Arab inhabitants of the territory upon which
the Israeli state was constituted were brutally
uprooted from their homes, often accompanied by
incidents of massacre, rape and looting. As a result
of this, the Palestinian collectivity collapsed as a
social and political entity and became largely a
refugee-camp people and a people of exiles."
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| When Arabs murder Arabs, BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) thinks that all Jews are to Blame |
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| I accuse everyone-mainly the majority of Jewish intellectuals in Israel and the United States-who sees and knows these things of doing nothing to prevent the impending catastrophe. The Sabra and Shatila massacres were nothing compared to what has happened-and what will happen-to us, Jews and Arabs, following this ethnic war ... |
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| AMIRAM GOLDBLUM (School of Pharmacy) finds the REAL threat to Israel, and it is not Arab Aggression and Terror |
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| I think that messianic Judaism is becoming as dangerous to the existence of Israel, if not more, than Palestinian ROR, and certainly more than Iran. |
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) says there is no difference between Israeli "occupation" (of the West Bank and Gaza) and the Nazi Occupation of Europe |
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All occupation regimes have a lot of common patterns
(and also some uniqueness), especially when portions of
occupied people exercise their right to oppose by violent
resistance, and chain of violence from both sides tend to
increase and to be brutal.
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) in Aljazeera insists that anti-Semitism is alright as long as it is only anti-Israel |
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Professor Moshe Zimmerman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a prominent historian and expert on the holocaust and Nazism, told Aljazeera.net that the Berlin conference was an Israeli government effort to ward off international criticism of Israeli policies and actions against the Palestinians.
"We have to differentiate between classical anti-Semitism and criticisms of Israeli policies and practices. The first is hating Jews for being Jews while the second represents rejection of certain objectionable policies and actions," he said.
Asked if comparing some Israeli leaders like Ariel Sharon to Nazi leaders was legitimate under certain circumstances, Zimmerman said the admissibility or inadmissibility of such a comparison depended on the facts at hand.
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| ISRAEL SHAHAK (chemistry) hated Jews |
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| Dr. Shahak says that he wants Jews to change their ways and to stop the atrocities associated with Zionism and Orthodox Jewish religion. As a first step, he wants us to face the terrible crimes that were committed by of our ancestors. |
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| Anti-Semitic Quotes from the late ISRAEL SHAHAK's book |
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The actual policies Israel pursued after the Six Day War, and in particular the apartheid character of the Israeli regime in the Occupied Territories and the attitude of the majority of Jews to the issue of the rights of the Palestinians, even in the abstract, have merely strengthened this conviction.
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| The late ISRAEL SHAHAK (chemistry) hated Zionism |
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| Intellectual Jews opposing Zionism include Elmer Berger, Norton Mezvinsky, Mosh Menuhin, Mick Ashley, Israel Shahak and Maxime Rodinson. Israel Shahak was the head of the league in1970 and he was the first Jew to record detailed information about the number of children, elderly and woman killed, including Arab villages demolished by Hagana and Stern terrorist movements |
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| ISRAEL SHAHAK (chemistry) - Writes in Commnetary that Jews are nothing but Nazis |
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| Just as it was the Nazi ideology which was primary cause of the extermination of the Jews, which took place when the German Nazis had the power to do it, and not before, so the Zionist ideology of Labor and the religious kind; of the two groups which are chief proponents of the ideal of "pure" Jewish society, which may lose its "Jewish character" by being "contaminated" through too great contact with non Jews (the Arabs in the Middle East) believes in separation, otherwise called "apartheid". |
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) finds some Fascism |
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Moshe Zimmerman, a professor of German history at Hebrew University and self-described Zionist, answered Herf's charges of Islamic fascism by answering that there is also "Israeli fascism, Israeli terror and Israeli criminality."
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) refuses to give exemptions to students serving in reserves |
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| "There is a group of students which cannot come today due to the excuse that its members are guarding at checkpoints, and the like. Such an excuse is not acceptable to me. Were they to be missing because they were serving in jail due to a refusal to serve in the territories, that would be satisfactory to me." |
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| Anti-Semite ISRAEL SHAHAK endorsed MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) |
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"I would like to express my agreement with the views of professor Moshe Zimmerman...It can not be doubted that an enormous majority of the Jews of Kiryat Arba (and even more of the Jews settled in Hebron itself) who supported the building of the magnificent memorial on the grave of the Jewish Nazi Baruch Goldstein5 did so because they believe in the same Judeo-Nazi ideology as he did. Had a German city constructed now a magnificent memorial on the grave of a Nazi who committed a murder similar to that of Goldstein we would label it a Nazi city, disregarding the exceptions that might exist in it. In exactly the same way we should regard Kiryat Arba as a Judeo-Nazi city and the Jewish settlers of Hebron as Judeo-Nazis of an even worse kind.
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) regrets that Nazi Germany did not Finish the Job |
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"If the Nazi programme for the final solution of the Jewish problem had been complete, for sure there would be peace today in Palestine. "
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| BARUCH KIMMERLING (sociology) supports Arab terrorism against Jews |
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"I would like to add that every nation have the legitimate right for self-determination as well to armed presence against
occupation....Settlers can't be included (among those entitled to civilian protection from terror)".
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| MICHAEL DAHAN (political science) gets caught plagiarizing |
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No less astonishing, during research for the case, Ms. Blumenfeld discovered that Dahans sworn testimony was plagiarized from two sources, one taken completely out of context."
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| EMMANUEL FARJOUN (math) Joins Call For an American Ban On Investments in Israel |
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MIT graduate and mathematics professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Emmanuel Farjoun, signed up to support his former American colleagues. Although complete divestment from Israel is unlikely, he says, a reduction in economic investment into Israel is realistic. One of the initiators of the Israeli academics' petition supporting conscientious objectors, Farjoun says he supports all forms of nonviolent, international pressure on Israel to give up "its addiction to the occupation," be it "commercial, diplomatic or even educational." Israel, he adds, should be made into an "international pariah."
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| A letter by AMIRAM GOLDBLUM (School of Pharmacy), demanding that people whose views he dislikes be denied basic civil rights |
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"Protecting the civil rights of Noam Federman is like protecting
the rights of the murderers in Stanley Kubrik's Clockwork Orange."
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| AMIRAM GOLDBLUM (School of Pharmacy) Smears Ariel Sharon and Israel on anti-Israel show on National Public Radio |
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| an interview with “peace activist” Amiram Goldblum, who was allowed to demonize Sharon as building a “career out of the politics and the culture of hatred,” and looking at everything as a “battlefield where he has to conquer something.” Ludden added to the vilification, telling listeners that Goldblum “considers Sharon’s candidacy immoral, given his long military record |
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) Invokes Himmler - but he means Jews |
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"There is an entire sector in the Jewish public which I unhesitatingly define as a copy of the German Nazis. Look at the children of the Jewish Hebron settlers: they are exactly like the Hitler Youth,"
"Bringing together the Himmler speech with the question of citizenship was very audacious. We should take it up and think about it. It means the comparison [presumably between Nazi Germany and Israeli actions] is relevant . . ."
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) sees Nazis when he looks at Jews |
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Moshe Zimmerman: "The Children of Hebron are exactly like Hitlers Youth." - "Look at the children of Hebron, they are exactly like Hitlers Youth. They are inundated from the earliest age with the evil Arabs, and anti-Semitism, how everyone is against them. They are turned into paranoids who think that they are the supreme race, exactly like Hitlers Youth."
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| MOSHE ZIMMERMAN (history) understands the terrorists who bombed his own campus |
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"A university which is located 100 metres from occupied territory should not be surprised when it becomes part of the war," says Professor Moshe Zimmerman, chairperson of the department of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
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| About NIMROD KAMER and OHAD ShEM-TOV Hebrew University humanities students, held for anti-Semitic Yom Kippur graffiti
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| Jerusalem police on Tuesday arrested two Jewish humanities students from the Hebrew University |
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| Massive Calls for the Firing of Moshe ZImmerman (history) because of his smearing Jews, calling them Nazis |
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A group of professors from the Hebrew University published as a huge advertisement in Haaretz and sent a letter to the president and rector of the university by which they are employed. After paying some hypocritical lip-service to academic freedom they called - "for the honor of the Jewish people in general and for the university's honor" - for the firing of the expert on the history of Nazism, Prof. Moshe Zimmerman. The reason: the comparison that he drew between Jewish "hooliganism" in the territories and the acts of the Nazi youth movement.
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