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| Editor of Israel Academia Monitor speaking at Tamar Yonah radio show |
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| What is post-Zionism and why does the academic community all over the globe mostly take a pro-Arab stance, going so far as to call Israel an apartheid state? Dana Barnett, editor of the Israel Academia Monitor joins Tamar Yonah and speaks about the left wing slant in academic circles and why professors defy reason and morality and opt for a more politically correct ideology instead. |
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| 2 audio interviews with the editor of Israel Academia Monitor on Arutz 7: "We shall continue to struggle against lecturers damaging the state" |
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1. Members of staff at Tel Aviv University opposed the words of Prof' Alan Dershowitz, the American Lawyer, during a ceremony conferring him an honorary doctorate by the university. Amongst other, Dershowitz attacked lecturers abusing freedom of speech to criticize the government.
As a response Dana Barnett, the editor of Israel Academia Monitor tells Arutz 7 she is happy Dershowitz had the courage to say the truth in the face of the lecturers, "Dershowitz always supported Israel and is familiar with the phenomenon of of Israeli lecturers calling for the boycott of Israel".
2. Lecturers from Tel Aviv University came out in a petition against their colleagues at TAU who called for boycott against Israel, as a result of the Gaza Flotilla incident.
Dana Barnett, the editor of Israel Academia Monitor claims in an interview to Arutz 7 that Tel Aviv University is going through a positive process and she hopes in the end the rest of the academia will join the struggle against those negative elements. |
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| Media war: BRICUP (The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine) reprints IAM's Appeal to Reason "Call to censor Israeli supporters of BDS" |
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BRICUP: The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
News from BRICUP
Call to censor Israeli supporters of BDS
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| Dr. Mordechai Kedar, chairman of Israel Academia Monitor debates Dr. Shlomo Sand |
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| IAM editor interviewed on IsraelNationalNews
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Dana Barnett of Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) says the number of Israeli university professors who write or speak against Israel has dropped to about 70 - partially thanks to her organization.
IAM was founded in 2004, Barnett told Arutz-7’s Benny Tucker, to fight the phenomenon of Israeli professors and academics who “receive their salaries from the Israeli taxpayer, yet who speak against Israel freely and call on other countries to boycott it. This is unacceptable.” |
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| IAM mentioned in "How human rights activists became public enemies" in Ha'ir Tel Aviv newspaper |
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University lecturers also say they are being silenced. It is done by the website of an organization called Israel Academia Monitor, which systematically documents every academic, from students to professors, who the website operators believe “undermines Jewish Zionist interests,” including signing petitions, attending conferences, speaking to the media and writing articles that criticize government policy towards the Palestinians. “Based on that monitoring, the organization submits an annual report to the various universities’ boards of trustees, with the warning ‘this is what people do with your money,’” says Dr. Amiel Vardi, a lecturer in classical studies at Hebrew University and an activist in Ta’ayush.
“Yes, we definitely monitor academics who want to destroy Israel,” confirms site editor Dana Barnet, “based on what they write or say at international conferences or interviews to the media. Academics who call at international conferences to boycott Israel, or cooperate with pro-Arab organizations such as Adala and B’Tselem, we all have to know what they are doing. We definitely think that just because of our monitoring those academics curtailed their activities.” |
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| Abu Dhabi Media: Watchdogs target left-wing Israeli university scholars |
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| Dana Barnett, founder of Israel Academia Monitor, has launched a petition demanding that Mr Gordon be sacked from his position as chair, that his courses be treated as elective rather than compulsory for his students, and that he be denied travel and research funding |
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| IAM Responses to “The ‘guardians’ of Israeli academia” by Benjamin Pogrund, October 23, Haaretz |
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Permit me to respond to Mr. Pogrund’s criticism of Israel Academia Monitor and his derisive characterization of our web site as a platform for “vigilantes” and “dangerous cranks” who “use crude censorship to shut up academics.”
As the introductory paragraph on our home page makes clear, IAM strongly supports the tradition of academic freedom that is an essential component of higher education in Israel. At the same time, it is committed to Israel’s security and its existence as a Jewish and democratic state. In keeping with this commitment, IAM brings to the attention of an informed and concerned public the worrisome phenomenon of a small sector in the academic community whose adherents abuse the hallmark of academic freedom to engage in activities that besmirch Israel, distort its history, lend support to calls for international boycotts, and encourage actions against the legal and democratic institutions of the country.
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| Israel Academia Monitor in Haaretz: The 'guardians' of Israeli academia |
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Israeli academics are being watched. Vigilantes check what they say or write - and, if they are judged "anti-Israel," incite donors to the universities and colleges where they teach to act against them. Students are encouraged to spy on their teachers and to report what they say.
Academics on the left are the targets. They are vilified as "Israel's academic fifth column" and "our inner scourge." They are called "traitors" and are accused of "treasonous betrayal" and of wanting "to suck up to and be accepted by the enemy."
One vigilante group is Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) started five years ago by the American-born Dana Barnett |
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| Anti-Israel Leader Wants Boycott – and Diploma |
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Omar Barghouti, an outspoken anti-Israel activist who has accused the Jewish state of “genocide,” is currently a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University. Barghouti, who is studying philosophy with a specialization in ethics, is at the same time calling on the international community to boycott Israeli academics and universities.
While Barghouti has learned at TAU for some time while calling for it and other Israeli schools to be boycotted, it was his statements following Operation Cast Lead in Gaza that apparently spurred his fellow students to action. Following Barghouti's latest speeches abroad accusing Israel of murder and genocide, and of planning a Holocaust against Arabs, more than 11,500 people have signed a petition calling for him to be dealt with. The petition offers three options: convincing Barghouti that his position is intellectually dishonest, suing him for libel, or expelling him from the school. |
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| Academic Watchdog Works to Expel Anti-Israel Activist from TAU |
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IAM, the Israel Academia Monitor organization, has set itself the goal of alerting the public to the outspokenly anti-Israel professors and others in Israeli universities.
Its top project at the moment: A drive to have the positions of Tel Aviv University doctoral student Omar Barghouti – “clearly an enemy of Israel,” IAM says – exposed and publicized.
IAM has initiated a petition against Barghouti, a member of the same clan that includes convicted terrorist murderer and Palestinian Authority leader Marwan Barghouti. The petition is addressed to the Rector, President, and supporters of Tel Aviv University, and states:
“Literally thousands of people all over the world are working very hard to demonize and de-legitimize Israel. An especially strident and persuasive voice is that of Omar Barghouti, whose devastating accusations against Israel can be found on dozens of internet sites, newspapers all over the world and even at international conferences. What makes his work especially repugnant is his wide use of half-truth, selective omission and outright lie. He is clearly an enemy of Israel. |
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| Bashing the academic Left / By David Newman |
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Campus Watch is a disgrace for anyone who believes in the concept of freedom of speech, and so it would appear is the copy organization Israel Academia Monitor, an interview with which appeared in the April 7 Jerusalem Post. It is little wonder that Dana Barnett was unprepared, or more likely unable to give a single name of an academic who has not been hired or promoted at an Israeli university for professing right-wing political views. I sat for three years on the promotions and tenure committee of my own university faculty. Despite the fact that the members of that committee shared a diverse range of political views, not once was the political critique allowed to intervene in what was, and remains, a very tough and demanding, but very fair, system of professional mobility. ...
Too many academics here suffer from the self-need to engage in political polemics. It is especially the case among those within the social sciences whose focus of research deals with these sensitive social and political topics, and who sometimes are unable to differentiate between their personal views and professional analysis, each of which feeds into the other. But in this respect there is no difference between right- and left-wing critique, except for the fact that he who practices the former is labeled as being patriotic, and the latter as treasonous. The former is okay, the latter is to be vilified and, if possible, prevented from moving up the academic ladder.
The academic McCarthyism of the Right endangers Israeli democracy and society. It threatens the very basis of freedom of speech. The self-styled patriots are causing enormous damage to the country and should be prevented from assuming the cloak of self-appointed defenders of the common good, which they are clearly not. |
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| "A higher degree of disloyalty?" - About Israel Academia Monitor's work today in the Jerusalem Post |
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| When Dana Barnett decided to "pick up the ball and run with it" four years ago, by establishing Israel Academia Monitor, she "hadn't grasped fully just how crucial an endeavor it was." |
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| Exposing the scoundrels of academia |
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| Dana Barnett, together with a small group of volunteers, has been waging a grim battle for the last four years, countering the highly damaging activities of some very influential people in Israel. Barnett, 42, heads the Israel Academia Monitor, which through its website: www.israel-academia-monitor.com reports on libelous articles, lectures and statements by a large number of Israel’s senior university lecturers and professors. Much of what is propagated by these people, is based on half-truths and apparent antipathy for their homeland. Some have questionable affiliations with other elements hostile to the State of Israel. |
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| About Israel Academia Monitor in Kibush Magazine |
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Israel Academia Monitor
email August 26, 2008
English-language information, though given unfriendly, about an initiative of Hebrew University students (coming from the right-wing's self-appointed and industrious 'academia monitor') [ed]
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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| About Kobi Snitz in Israel Academia Monitor's postings |
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--- On Wed, 20/8/08, Ronnie Barkan wrote:
From: Ronnie Barkan
Subject: [againstwall] Fwd: [Bar Ilan U, Math] kobi Snitz supports Palestinian struggle against Israel
To: "AATW"
Date: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008, 2:19 PM
hehe, i just got this from IAM - Israel Academia Monitor - which is responsible for pointing a blaming finger at any israeli academic who dares to think that all are created equal. and today it's our very own kobi!
here's an email from the dark side... |
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| Israel Academia Monitor in the news: TAU Prof. Says 'Jewish Nation? No Such Thing' - Students Protest |
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In his new book, Zand says that Judaism is a religion and is connected to no nation.
The video above features students protesting outside one of the professor's lectures with megaphones and signs declaring that academic freedom does not allow one to distort and slander. The professor responds.
The protest was organized by several student groups including Israel Academia Monitor. |
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| Israel Academia Monitor / by Daniel Septimus |
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Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, but is really only a summary of positions published on a single website — Israel Academia Monitor.
It’s quite possible that many of those quoted on this website are, indeed, anti-Zionist. But Klein’s article does absolutely nothing to investigate the website’s claims. He merely summarizes them.
And some of the site’s claims seem a bit hyperbolic. |
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| Islam Online speaks of Israel Academia Monitor study in 'Israel Academia Takes on "Nazi" Israel' |
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CAIRO - Appalled by incessant crimes against innocent Palestinians, Israeli professors are increasingly speaking out and encouraging students and soldiers to dissent government policies. "It is estimated that some 20 to 25% of people who teach the Humanities and Social Sciences in Israel's universities and colleges have expressed extreme anti-Zionist positions," the Israel-Academia Monitor said in a new study.
It said they have engaged in public demonstrations and sponsored petitions addressed to Israeli soldiers not serve in the occupied West Bank. |
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| Israel a 'Nazi apartheid regime'? Bible 'full of myths'? |
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Watchdog monitors 'anti-Jewish trends' of Jerusalem universities
Israeli college professors who label their country a Nazi apartheid regime, urge the downfall of the Jewish state, and speak at conventions calling for the boycott of Israel?
Universities in Jerusalem that give awards to academic papers complaining Jewish soldiers don't rape enough Arab women and encourage students to protest the anti-terror policies of the Israeli military?
These trends are rampant across college campuses in the country, according to one website - Israel Academia Monitor, which has been documenting what it calls the anti-Zionist behavior of the senior staff at major Israeli universities. |
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| The Radical Left - Endangers the State of Israel and the Jewish People |
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This topic will be discussed at a Symposiun at the ZOA House, Douglass Hall, 1 Daniel Frisch St., Tel-Aviv, on Wednesday, the 9th of Shevat, 5768, (January 16th, 2008) at 6 PM.
Speakers and discussants:
Prof. Shlomo Sharan - chair - Israel's Academia: The Enemy Within
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld - Academics Against Israel- A Worldwide Perspective
Prof. Noah Milgram - Denial Mechanisms in a Society under Stress
Prof. Steven Plaut - The Media and Isreal's Academia
Aryeh Stav - The Extreme Left in Israel - from Cognitive Dissonance to Moral Collapse, or Perhaps Vice-Versa |
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| "Academic Atrocities" - Detroit Jewish News report on Israel Academia Monitor's Work |
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| Dana Barnett has a name for the Israeli academics who disparage Zionism and publish books and articles in open sympathy with the Palestinians. The name is traitor. |
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| Israel's Campus Watch
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A specter is haunting the far-left fever swamps found inside Israeli universities: "Israel Academia Monitor." It is Israel's new cousin to the "Campus Watch" web site that operates in the U.S., which has been controversial because of its practice of publishing some of the loopier citations and statements made by faculty members in North America who pose as Middle East Studies "experts." Israel Academia Monitor provides a well-d'ocumented record of the most outrageous statements and seditious a'ctivities of Israel's own academic extremists. Organized by campus, it makes no secret of its desire to see the informatio'n reach donors to those universities, as well as alumni, journalists, and others. And it has the extremists running scared.
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| Understanding of the radical Islamic Agenda |
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| The following is a transcript of a radio show discussing the radical Islamic Agenda in education and how it is also being carried out by more than just radical Muslims. Universities worldwide are being targeted for Holy Jihad and the show emphasizes how even some Jews and Christians are behind what is happening. This has even extended into the universities inside Israel itself, something most people in the West (and even Israel) are unaware of. Now, Israel-academia-monitor is changing that by informing its readers of the academics in Israel who are working diligently to dismantle the Jewish state. |
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| Far-Leftist Haaretz Writer claims Israel Academia Monitor is A 'McCarthyite attempt to brand academics' -
But Only a McCarthyite would think that Criticism of Far Leftists is McCarthyism |
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'The author of the latest paper was aided by a group called the "Israel Academia Monitor," which keeps an eye on the leftists scattered in Israel's universities. The operation is conducted in English, and the site's homepage (www.israel-academia-monitor.com) warns donors about where their gifts to Israeli universities are liable to end up.
It would be sad if it were not pathetic to the point of ridiculousness. ... Now this enlightened attitude has given way to the irresponsible use of the terms "anti-Semitic" and "anti-Zionist," which accompany the names of senior academics in Israel, and to wretched pseudo-psychological analyses of the pathological motives of your average Jewish left-winger. ' |
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| Israel Academia Monitor on Tovia Singer Show: Bash-Israel Conference Coming to Jerusalem Featuring Numerous Israeli Academics |
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A Trojan Horse in Israeli universities! ...I was speaking as his guest for Israel-Academia-Monitor.com and giving details about an upcoming conference to be held this November in Jerusalem titled “Dialogue Under Occupation”
http://israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=5795&page_data. The Conference, featuring Arab college professors mostly from United States universities all presenting the usual mantra against Israel’s existence, also features numerous Israeli
academics to represent supposedly the Israeli side. The “dialogue” part of the conference’s title is a deception though; the Israeli college professors will do nothing less than to validate the Arab professors’ unending complaints against and their goals of dismantling the Jewish state. |
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| Israel Academia Monitor: Bash-Israel Conference Coming to Jerusalem Featuring Numerous Israeli Academics |
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Bash-Israel Conference Coming to Jerusalem Featuring Numerous Israeli Academics
Lee Kaplan, investigative journalist for Israel-academia-monitor.com, reports that Israeli professors are planning to gather at Al Quds University for a “Dialogue Under Occupation” anti-Israel conference on November 14-16. |
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| Anti-Israel Israeli academics react to Israel Academia Monitor |
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| (Israeli Committee for Right of Residency) ICRR, a communist front group, upset by IAM |
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'Our friends are monitoring us well and ICRR has come under scrutiny. Joe McCarthy is alive and well in Israel.'
Arkee |
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| Tel Aviv University's Ran HaCohen, comparative literature, threatens to sue IAM for citing him correctly |
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| you have copied and posted an article of which I am the author. You have done this without asking or obtaining my permission to reproduce my text, thus breaching both mine and Antiwar.com's copyright |
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| Israel Academia Monitor - ACADEMICS AGAINST ‘POST-ZIONIST' PROFESSORS, YNET NEWS, OCTOBER19, 2006 |
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Israel Academia Monitor' website acts as ‘Big Brother’, warns students of anti-Israel professors and courses at Israeli universities
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| Hebrew University's Ofer Neiman (computers) denounces Israel Academia Monitor |
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| Just for our collective information, the highly distinguished "Israeli Academia Monitor" has been following communication on this mailing list. Note that some of the manipulations made by the brilliant editors of the website are libelous, prima facie |
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| Memo From Israel Academia Monitor
To: Members of the Board of Governors of Ben Gurion University
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We at Israel Academia Monitor are the Israeli analogue to "Campus Watch" in the United States. We monitor and expose the anti-Israel political extremism rampant among the faculty members at Israeli universities, including Ben Gurion University. These activities include collaboration with anti-Semites from around the world, promotion of international boycotts of Israel and Israeli institutions, calls for Israel's annihilation, and open endorsements of terrorism against Israel.
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| Israel Academia Monitor On TV Channel One News with Keren Noybach, 15.5.07 |
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| So just what do we do here in IAM? |
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| Translation of "The Post-Zionist Bias on Israeli Campuses"
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| About those Academics who war Against Israel |
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| Ben Gurion University's Neve Gordon denounces Israel Academia Monitor - How dare we criticize defamers of Israel? |
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| Israel Academia Monitor
Academic witch-hunt or a digital defence?
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Of course, critics of the Israeli academic left have been attacked for some time. David Newman, professor of political geography at Ben-Gurion University, complained in The Times Higher in April about right-wing McCarthyists attempting to suppress academic "diversity". This from a man whose department does not include one non-leftist. Free speech is indeed what the hysteria is all about |
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| London Times Higher Educational Supplement:
Israeli Website attacks anti-Zionists (Israel Academia Monitor) |
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| It represents a "group of donors, concerned academics, students, researchers and others" who wish to "bring to light statements and articles written by and about the academic extremists and university anti-Zionists" and highlight "abuses of academic freedom in Israel". |
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| Exposed: Israel's Tenured Radicals
by Robert Kornfield |
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| The scandal of anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist, and sometimes anti-Semitic radicalism among Israeli academics is now highlighted on a new website. Modeled after Campus Watch, Daniel Pipes’s site for monitoring Middle East studies on North American campuses, Israel Academic Monitor was created by a group of academics, journalists, donors, students, and others with the aim of monitoring abuses of academic freedom in Israel’s universities. These abuses include not only writings and statements that deny Israel’s legitimacy, advocate its destruction, or compare it with the Nazi and other worst regimes in history, but also calls for widespread insurrection and mutiny by Israeli soldiers and support for international efforts at boycotting Israel and ostracizing the teachers and students of these universities themselves. |
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| The following discussion concerning the launching of Israel Academia Monitor took place on Alef |
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