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 The
launching of "Israel Academia Monitor"
For more
information, go to http://israel-academia-monitor.com/
Israel Academia Monitor P.O.Box 920 Kfar Shmaryahu 46910
It is with
great pleasure that we announce the official opening of the web site for
Israel Academia Monitor, at the web address: http://israel-academia-monitor.com/
Israel Academia
Monitor is an Israeli watchdog group that monitors abuses of academic
freedom and politicalization of Israeli campuses by extremists and radicals
in Israeli academia who probably damage Israel because they want to be
accepted by the enemy or by some of Israel's worst adversaries. We have
modeled ourselves in part on the highly successful "Campus Watch"
organization and monitoring group in the United States.
The purpose
of Israel Academia Monitor is to bring to light abuses of academic freedom
in Israel. Israeli academic institutions have been misused in recent years
as platforms for radical anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic propagandizing,
often by tenured radicals with embarrassing academic records and dubious
research credentials. Israeli universities have been politicized, with
hiring and promotion decisions subordinated to political bias. Israeli
extremist academics have misused their podiums to spread anti-Israel libel
and venom and to aid haters of Israel and of Jews around the world, including
those seeking to boycott and delegitimize Israel and Jews.
The campus
extremists have used their comfortable and protected positions in academia
to promote insurrection and lawbreaking. They have done so while pocketing
the subsidies and budget allocations of Israeli taxpayers and the financial
gifts to the universities of donors and contributors. And while Israeli
academic extremists insist that their seditious and anti-patriotic behavior
must be protected as "academic freedom", they also believe that
no one else should be permitted to monitor, nor criticize them as part
of that same freedom. They believe in freedom of speech for leftist radicals
and haters of Israel alone, but not for the critics of the radicals, not
for the donors and contributors to universities, and not for politicians
critical of the abuses inside the universities. Criticism of an anti-Zionist
Israeli leftist is, in their opinion, "McCarthyism".
Israel Academia
Monitor was founded and is operated by a group of donors, concerned academics,
students, researchers, and others. We bring to light statements and articles
written by and about the academic extremists and university anti-Zionists.
It is our purpose to expose the activities and statements of Israel's
academic extremists. We encourage students, scholars, and others to submit
to us materials, and we will post and publish those that are appropriate
and relevant.
We believe
it is essential to document and monitor abuses of the cap and gown in
Israel and call upon readers to support our efforts and assist us in all
ways.
Our web site
is filled with citations of anti-Israel extremism, endorsements of Israel's
destruction, rationalizations of anti-Israel terrorism, defamation of
Israel and of Jews, all the doings of extremist faculty members at Israeli
universities. The citations are arranged by university and by faculty
member name. While it would be hard to judge across the institutions,
Ben Gurion University is no doubt leading the field, with the worst and
largest numbers of anti-Israel fanatics on its faculty. The University
of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, and Hebrew University are not far behind.
Only the Technion and Bar Ilan University faculty have produced only small
amounts of anti-Israel venom.
Among the
many rogues featured on the Israel Academia Monitor web site are Oren
Yiftachel from Ben-Gurion University, denouncing Israel repeatedly as
an apartheid state, Neve Gordon, also from BGU, declaring that Israel
is becoming fascist and is a terrorist state worse than the Hamas, Moshe
Zimmerman from the Hebrew University comparing the Torah to Mein Kampf,
Tanya Reinhart and Paul Wexler from Tel Aviv University calling for a
worldwide boycott of Israeli universities, Ran HaCohen from Tel Aviv University
endorsing Hizbullah attacks on Israel, and many, many more. We document
the Israeli university faculty members who promote mutiny and insurrection
by soldiers, who collaborate with anti-Semites and enemies of Israel,
who sign petitions defaming Israel and Jews, who support lawlessness and
terror.
We encourage
reader support and contribution of new materials on the misbehavior of
Israeli academic extremists, which will be posted on our web site, and
of course financial support as well.
"One
day, when historians scratch their heads and wonder just how Israel could
have adopted the policies it did in the Oslo era of the 1990s, they will
likely devote considerable attention to the role of the country's academics.
In amazement, they will look back on how a number of radicals actively
legitimated the agenda of the country's enemies, thereby doing much
to demoralize their fellow nationals." --- Middle East Quarterly
For more
information, contact us through our web site.
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 Israel’s
Academic Extremists
by Solomon Socrates: One day, when historians scratch their heads and
wonder just how Israel could have adopted the policies it did in the the
Oslo era of the 1990s.
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Redressing the Balance