tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39244742012-01-31T15:45:52.155+02:00Original articles on Israel and related issues written by Steven Plaut, a professor at an Israeli university.Steven Plautnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-75094757257465037762012-01-31T15:45:00.001+02:002012-01-31T15:45:52.449+02:00

Leftist anti-Semitic Boycotter of Israel Boycotts the BoycottCampaign of the Leftist anti-Israel Boycotters at Tel Aviv University Huh? Ahhh, only in Israel. Ahhh, only with self-hating Jewishanti-Semites and their gallicfascist friends. It seems that one of Israel's far-leftist pseudo-academics triedto invite the anti-Israel communist French "political philosopher" toIsrael to help her

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Shut it Down, Don't Try to Make it "Balanced"!!By Professor Israel David, Ben Gurion UniversityOpe-ed in Maariv, January 30, 2012(translated by Steven Plaut, Isracampus)Complete closing down of the Department of Politics and Government atBen Gurion University is Now Essential Ben Gurion University has found itself at a fork in the road, whereit is being required to provide clear and non-evasive

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Allow us to introduce you to one Zvi Elhyani, who is on the teachingstaff at the Bezalel Arts and Crafts College. He is one of thearchitects for jihad who are active in Israel in promoting thePalestinian agenda. Elhyani is in the news this week for calling for the murder of WestBank "settlers." He was outted (in Hebrew) at this web page:http://www.srugim.co.il/27935-%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%94-%

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1. The headline in Haaretz is that some Palestinians hacked into theHaaretz web site. Seehttp://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pro-palestinian-hackers-crash-haaretz-other-sites-1.409228Evidently most readers of Haaretz were unaware of the hacking becausethe anti-Israel content of the newspaper that had been hacked did notdiffer much from its usual fare. The newspaper editors became

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Everything you need to know about academic freedom and freedom ofspeech in Israel:Leftists who insist that only leftists are entitled to exercisefreedom of speech - are fascists.Leftists who insist that all people who criticize leftists areMcCarthyists - are fascists. They are also McCarthyists.Leftists who claim that the exercise of freedom of speech by anti-Oslodissidents in the 1990s caused

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Well you know the radical anti-democratic Left in Israel is upsetwhen even Haaretz runs a major news story about Isracampus and thewatchdog groups that are monitoring and exposing Israel's tenuredtraitors. Haaretz today ran the following news story, complete with all theusual spins, half-truths and outright lies you would expect fromHaaretz. Distortions and all, the real message gets through.

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1. The following appeared in Haaretz, believe it or not. Worth reading:The Jew Flu: The strange illness of Jewish anti-SemitismFlus are contagious and incurable, but containable; the ancient andresilient virus known as Jew Flu is no different.By Uzi SilberTags: Israel news anti-SemitismGet Haaretz on iPhone Get Haaretz on Android DiagnosisThe 1930s Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked "

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1. Racism and discrimination have suddenly appeared as a seriousproblem in Israeli academia. The racism and discrimination inquestion is anti-Jewish and is being practiced by Ben Gurion"University." That is right, 73 years after Kristallnacht Jews arebeing discriminated against and barred from attending a universityprogram in psychology at Ben Gurion "University" because it is onlyopen to

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1. For years Israel has sat back while a sort of "Palestinian Rightof Return" was being implemented under everyone's noses. It consistedof Arab citizens of Israel's marrying Palestinians from the West Bank,Gaza or elsewhere and demanding that their spouses be granted Israelicitizenship. Some of the marriages are fictional, like "Green CardWeddings" in the US. Many others are multiple wives

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PC on Steroids - Just when you thought the PC-people could notpossibly Get any NuttierFuror in Greece over pedophilia as a disabilityJanuary 9th, 2012 in Health(AP) -- Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a governmentdecision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories toinclude pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.The National Confederation of Disabled People

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http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/10/central-asia-lessons-for-the-middle-east/Central Asia: Lessons for the Middle EastPosted By Nodir Ataev and Steven Plaut On January 10, 2012Just as the new calendar year was about to begin, new violence brokeout in the village of Andarak in southern Kyrgyzstan. Internecineviolence among the ethnic groups of Kyrgyzstan has been flaring upperiodically for years

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Israel is in the midst of a major scandal, one all the media arespeaking about. It seems that the head of the soccer association wasappointing biased judges and referees to soccer matches. He is beingindicted. Those "conscripted" game judges would make calls during thegame that reflected their personal bias. See this news story:http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/sports/

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This is not a political item and is not related to current events.But every once in a while there is a human interest story that canonly be about Jews and just leaves you in awe at the Jewishexperience, a story so incredible it can only be true.Yakov Jacobson was a completely assimilated Jew in the US. From hisname he is probably a recent immigrant from the ex-Soviet Union. Hewas working in a

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It is raining this week in Israel, which is an unusual event. I wasoutside yesterday when a light rain was falling, not enough even tomake cars turn on their wipers. A bunch of Israelis were crowdedunder a store's outside awning to shelter there and to wait until the"storm" passed. It reminded me of this earlier item I had postedabout life in Israel:Rain ManBy Steve Plaut This week it

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The Supreme Need to Fix the Israeli Supreme CourtBy Steven Plaut For years I have been claiming that Israel has a politicized dualjustice system, where one set of rules operates for leftists andanother for everyone else. For years I have been insisting that theProsecution or Attorney General's Office in Israel is partisan andpoliticized and biased. I of course have not been the only person

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    The Supreme Need to Fix the Israeli Supreme Court        For years I have been claiming that Israel has a politicized dual justice system, where one set of rules operates for leftists and another for everyone else.  For years I have been insisting that the Prosecution or Attorney General's Office in Israel is partisan and politicized and biased.         I of course have not been the only

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The ruckus over the anti-Israel indoctrination center pretending to bean academic department at Ben Gurion "University" continues.Yaakov Bergman, a prominent professor at the Hebrew University, hasjoined the assault on the Tenured Tanzim who teach "politics" at BenGurion Univerity. He published a response to Neve Gordon and DaniFilc, the two most extremist Israel-hating faculty members in

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http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20TAU%20-%20Chen%20Misgav%20-%20Describes%20Bodily%20Functions.htmTel Aviv University – Chen Misgav (Dept of Geography) Describes"Bodily Functions" - and the Death of Academic Standards at TAUUniversities are traditionally places where new ideas are alwayswelcome. Once a theory or question is presented, academic

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1. More News from Orwellistic Israel: Terrorist murderer wants toFinish his BA; Model Hebrew University Studenthttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149051Freed Terrorist: I Want to Finish My University DegreeHamas terrorist who directed the murders of two IDF soldiers: I don'tregret what I did. I want to finish the university degree I started.By Elad BenariFirst Publish: 10/25/2011

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http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/30/womens-rights-and-double-standards/Women's Rights and Double StandardsPosted By Steven Plaut On December 30, 2011Well, it seems the Obama team lately was running short of things overwhich to bash Israel and so it decided that the treatment of women inIsrael is something that needs condemnation. Led by Hillary Clinton,the Obama administration thinks that Israel

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Professor Ze'ev Maoz (University of California and the Herzliya IDC)endorses the Calls for The Complete Shutting Down of the Department ofPolitics at Ben Gurion University; Insists it is a bunch ofsubstandard pseudo-academicsBy Steven PlautI must tell you that I am not generally a fan of Prof. Ze'ev Maoz. Heis a leftist and his written some obnoxious anti-Israel articles andexpressed some

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The latest cause of Israel's tenured radicals is censorship. Theyare all in FAVOR of it! Hundreds of Israeli academics are issuing calls and signingpetitions demanding that a book containing unfashionable commentsabout homosexuality be censored and barred from any use in academicinstitutions. Not a single one of these tenured sheep ever condemnedthe "book" by Tel Aviv University's Shlomo

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/hannuka_among_the_hellenists_1.html(reprint)December 15, 2006Hannuka Among the HellenistsBy Steven PlautOf all the Jewish holidays, the one that I think best captures thecontemporary Jewish zeitgeist, the one that is the most relevant tothe current (and, if certain trends are not reversed, the last?)chapter in Jewish history, is Hannuka.Hannuka is, of course

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University of London's Efraim Karsh Exposes Ben Gurion University'sPseudo-Academic anti-Israel Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities,David NewmanKarsh in Hudson NY: "Betraying Ben-Gurion"Follow the Middle East ForumMEF Home | Research & Writings | Middle East Quarterly | MEF @Facebook | MEF @ Twitter | DonatePlease take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, andsubmit your city &

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Short Headlines in the Ongoing Saga of Israeli Apartheid1. Abu Dawud was the guerilla pseudonym of Muhammed Dahud Udeh, theuber-terrorhoid who planned and organized the 1972 massacre of Israeliathletes at the Munich Olympics. He died last year, much too late andmuch too easily. His widow is still alive and waddling. She wasallowed by Israel this past week, a bit foolishly, to enter thecountry

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The Jihad on behalf of Ben Gurion University's Tenured ExtremistsBy Steven PlautIn Israel there are two schools of thought as to what a universityshould be. The first school of thought, a shrinking minority opinionon Israeli campuses, holds that universities should be centers ofscholastic inquiry, research, scientific exploration and analysis, andteaching. The second school of thought, which

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1. Send some condolences!Isracampus Invites you to send CondolencesAs you no doubt have heard, Kim Jong II, the goosestepping Stalinistbrat who had been running the North Korean gulag in recent years, justcroaked. Isracampus would like to invite you to send an e-note ofcondolence to Noam Chomsky; his email address is chomsky@MIT.eduThen, please send similar letters of condolence to Israel's

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1. David Mizrachi has had a tragic life, and then to top it all offhe fell victim to Israel's politicized dual judicial system.Mizrachi lives in Kiryat Arba, the Jewish town on the outskirts ofHebron. Five years ago, Mizrachi's daughter, who was the mother ofsmall children, was mortally injured by a bullet that was accidentallyfired from a weapon. For several weeks she hung on to life,

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Israel's Mona Lisa WeaponBy Steven Plaut She's unforgettable, she's a legend though... It's kinda incredible --- From "Mona Lisa" by Britney Spears Meet Israel's secret weapon against terrorism, code named "MonaLisa." Not only is Mona Lisa an effective weapon against Arabanti-Israel terrorism and Islamofascism, but also is one of the mosteffective weapons in the Israeli arsenal

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You just might be an "Occupier"(from this week's Jewish Press, NY, Dec 2 issue)By Steven Plaut Many of us are scratching our heads, and in some cases other partsof our anatomy, trying to make sense of the "Occupy Wall Street"movement and its sundry clones around the US and now around the world. Just what do these urchins really want? What do they think andbelieve? Well, we thought we would

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  Shalom, Allow us to introduce ourselves..... Creative Community for Peace is a non-profit organization headed up by a cross section of the creative world - those who create and help create music, movies, and television programs - and their fans.   We may not all share the same politics or the same opinion on the best path to peace in the Middle East. But we do agree that singling out Israel

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http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/will-israel-ever-get-serious-about-treason/2011/11/23/0/From the Jewish Press (NY)Will Israel Ever Get Serious About Treason?By: Steven PlautPublished: November 23rd, 2011 | Latest update: November 23rd, 2011Earlier this year Israel passed a law that would strip Israelis oftheir citizenship if convicted of espionage or treason. Condemned forthis by

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It is a Cesspool of anti-Israel Extremist Propaganda and Hate!!http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4152161,00.htmlRecommendation: Shut down 'leftist' departmentCouncil for Higher Education committee says Ben Gurion University'sPolitics Department politically biased. Professor: Some committeemembers extreme rightistsTamar Trabelsi-HadadIn an unprecedented move, an international committee

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http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/10/peace-through-victory-%e2%80%93-give-victory-a-chance/Peace Through VictoryPosted By Steven Plaut On November 10, 2011By now, Israel, at the urging and bullying of the world, has triedpretty much every conceivable idea and option for achievingtranquility and reconciliation with the Hamas, except for one. Israelremoved its army and civilian population from the

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The Histadrut's War against the Israeli PublicBy Steven Plaut"Israel's most justified strike ever," gushed the Jewish Palestiniansover at leftwing Haaretz newspaper. It is a fight for socialjustice, chimed in the other media airheads. The students from thetent protests agree.Israel's Histadrut trade union federation once again proved itselfthis past week as deserving of the moniker I have long

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http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/97030/atzmon-wandering-who-anti-semitism-israel?page=0,0Why are John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk Endorsing a BlatantlyAnti-Semitic Book?Alan DershowitzNovember 4, 2011 | 12:00 am.As the discourse about Israel on university campuses continues todegenerate, there is growing concern that some of Israel's most vocaldetractors are crossing a red line between

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10778Israeli Professors of HateFrom the 1970s, Israel's universities had become home to a newgeneration of leftist intellectuals who demonize Israel and theundermine the struggle for survival of the Jewish people.From Giulio MeottiWhen in 2007 Professor Hillel Weiss of Bar Ilan University wascaptured on film cursing the IDF regional

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The article is attached here in PDF format.  I think it will interest you.I was unable to access it in simple text for a smaller file.  If it istoo large for your server, please delete with my apology.

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1. I inadvertently sent a message yesterday where the address listwas showing. Sorry, I am getting old! Please delete and do not usethat list for sending out messages.2. A couple of days ago I sent out a posting about Tel AvivUniversity's airhead philosophy faculty member, Anat Matar, and hercelebrating the release of mass murderers and terrorists as a greatreason to party. She also

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As you know, pig farmers in the American Midwest call their pigs homewith the yell, "SUUUHAAA! SUUUHAAAAAA!"You recall Suha Arafat giving a public speech in which she claimedJews poison Palestinian wells, and Hillary Clinto applauded her? (Seehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123594610114604391.html andhttp://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/13/

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1. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/pino-jihada/Pino JihadaPosted By Steven Plaut On October 31, 2011 @ 12:08 am In DailyMailer,FrontPage | No CommentsFor those of us old enough to be AARP members, the name "Kent State"conjures up memories of the killings of 4 Kent State students on May4, 1970 in an over-reaction by Ohio State Guardsmen positioned on thecampus during anti-war protests.This

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Israeli Academics in the News – Part I We have reported regularly on the antics and shenanigans of TelAviv University's Anat Matar, one of the worst tenured extremists atTel Aviv University. She is violent and has been arrested for herviolence. She despises Israel and wants it destroyed. She is atenured faculty member in philosophy. Well, Sister Matar is back in the news these days as a

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149183'Ben Gurion a Greenhouse for Radical Left'Zionist groups welcome decision to investigate professor forincitement, call on universities to act.Maayana MiskinZionist groups expressed satisfaction Friday over the decision toinvestigate Professor Eyal Nir for incitement. Nir called on thepublic to attack Zionist youth dancing in the streets on

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Guide for the PerplexedPosted By Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi On October 26, 2011 @ 12:00 am In DailyMailer,FrontPage | No CommentsI have come to realize just how difficult it may be to decipher newsabout the Middle East, Islam, Israel, the Arab World, and all thesepowerful and explosive issues of our times for those who rely on suchmedia stalwarts as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the

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Special blessing for Shmini Atzeret, even if a few hours late:.All around the Libyan Bush,The rebels chased the weasel.The monkeys thought the weasel would win, butPop! went the weasel.I thought now would be an apt time to re-post this, from last Purim:http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/47519/RETURN LIBYA TO ITS RIGHTFUL RULERS!By: Steven PlautDate: Wednesday, March 09 2011The world is

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The Netanyahu CapitulationBy Steven Plaut"Those released will return to armed struggle. It is a great nationalachievement." Khaled Mashal, Chairman, Hamas Political Bureau,Damascus, SyriaI think that the best definition of leadership is where a politicalleader is willing to resist populist pressure to do "popular" thingswhenever those "popular" things are harmful. A real leader is

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http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/11/occupy-berkeley/Occupy Berkeley!Posted By Steven Plaut On October 11, 2011The focus of the country has lately been on the "Occupy Wall Street"movement, or "OWS." You know, the people who claim to speak for the99% of Americans who are not wealthy capitalists and who think theycan create social justice and equality by marching around the New YorkStock Exchange

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1. It would be hard to find a better illustration of thepoliticization and the anti-democratic character of Israel's dualjudicial system. The story begins with a woman named Yifat Alkobi, a married womanfrom Kiryat Arba. She was arrested in 2007 for spitting and throwingstones at a Palestinian she claims was harassing her, the accusationsagainst Alkobi being based on "testimony" from the

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This week the President of France, Nicky Sakozy, announced that thevery notion of a "Jewish State" is a silly idea. See the report here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148556Well, it occurs to me that if you REALLY want to find a truly sillyidea, it is the idea of a French state.I reprint here an older posting of mine:http://www.meforum.org/62/

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http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/07/from-israels-bus-300-affair-to-the-al-awlaki-assassination/From Israel's Bus 300 Affair to the Al-Awlaki AssassinationPosted By Steven Plaut On October 7, 2011It is perhaps the ultimate irony that the Israeli "Bus 300" affair isonce again popping up in the media just days after the al-Qaedaterrorist with the US passport, Anwar al-Awlaki, was liquidated by adrone

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After much media ballyhoo, at long last the Trachtenberg (orTrajtenberg, which is actually how he spells his name in Latinletters) Commission for Social Change in Israel has submitted itsrecommendations. They consist of a potpourri of proposals andrecommendations for alterations in economic and social policy in manydifferent areas. Many sound like they were adopted from the tentprotesters in

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1. Professor Yehuda Bauer of the Hebrew University is generallyregarded as Israel's leading Holocaust scholar. Bauer however is alsoa radical leftist. He is involved in all the usual leftist causes,even this one, involving suppression of freedom of speech:http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142314 andhttp://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2853And Professor Bauer, the Holocaust scholar,

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1. Let's Vote for Independence!!By Steven PlautAs you know, much of the world is getting ready to recognize a "state"for "Palestinians" in coming days. The US may veto the vote in theSecurity Council to set up "Palestine" in Israeli lands, and thenagain maybe it will not veto it. Other countries are going ahead withplans to vote for "Palestine" in the General Assembly, to grant"Palestine"

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1. I confess that it is a rare day when I actually enjoy somethingthat appears in Haaretz. And an even more rare day when Haaretzexhibits something witty.But the political editorial cartoon that appeared yesterday wasdelightful and almost would have been enough reason to buy yesterday'spaper.The cartoon concerned the Labor Party primaries, which were heldyesterday. There are four leftist

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The following article appears in the Fall 2011 issue of the MiddleEast Quarterly: http://www.meforum.org/meq/I think you will find it an interesting summary evaluation of what iswrong at Israeli universities.For some reason the web site does not allow access to the full articleso I am pasting it below. The final version of the piece may beslightly edited compared with the following:Israel's

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Facing Unpleasant Facts in the Middle EastThe world is now well into the Post-Oslo era, in which the delusionsand denials of reality that were the foundations of the "Oslo peaceprocess" are being acknowledged for what they were. For thosereturning to the planet Earth from Fantasyland in the "Oslo" paralleluniverse, it behooves them and us all to bear in mind some of theunpleasant facts of life

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Yesterday in my posting about "Rabin-style Incitement," I describedhow free speech in Israel means that yelling "Rabin was a moron" in anempty movie theater is enough to get you arrested for the crime ofincitement-after-the-fact.I then added: Someone shouting "Shimon Peres is a moron" in an emptymovie theater would be arrested for insulting a public official.Correction: They would be arrested

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The familiar old saying about the limits of freedom of speech insiststhat yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater is not protectedspeech.In Israel, by contrast, yelling "Rabin was a moron" in an empty movietheater is enough to get you arrested for the crime ofincitement-after-the-fact.For 17 years the Israeli media have been reciting nonstop andobsessively that Yitzhak Rabin was murdered

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1. More on the Derfner Affair(open web page to see links)http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/08/israel%e2%80%99s-derfner-affair/Israel's Derfner AffairPosted By Steven Plaut On September 8, 2011One of the most bizarre controversies concerning freedom of the pressand freedom of speech has been afflicting Israel in recent days. Thebasic question is whether there exists some sort of right to

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The leaks from Wikileaks do not simply embarrass mainstreampoliticians. They also sometimes serve to discredit moonbats.Take this item about the REAL ideological position of the New Israel Fund:http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147525NIF Officer: Demise of Jewish State 'No Tragedy' – WikileaksIn US cable from 2010, then-senior NIF officer is quoted as sayingIsrael will be majority

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(Apologies if you get this double)The Derfner affair began as an esoteric incident noticed only byEnglish-speaking Israelis. Where the ex-columnist for the JerusalemPost Larry Derfner was fired by the Post after he had publishedcriminal support for random murders of Jewish civilians by Arabterrorists.It has grown as the radical Left rallies to endorse Derfner andsupport the inalienable right of

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1. The moonbatocracy is coming out of its holes to defend LarryDerfner, the columnist at the Jerusalem Post who was just fired forendorsing terrorist murders of Jewish children and civilians. TheLeft is suddenly whining that the firing of Derfner is undemocraticand contradicts freedom of speech. Not a single one of those whiningabout it being democratic has come out in defense of freedom of

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1. Just a fast update and note of thanks to all of you who sentletters of protest to the Jerusalem Post editors. The traitor LarryDerfner, who published a column last week justifying and celebratingthe murder of Jewish civilians, was fired today by the Jerusalem Post. He announces his own firing here:http://israelleft.com/2011/08/29/i-got-fired-by-the-jerusalem-post-today/(That web site, Israel

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The 50 Rules of Leftist DebateBy Steven PlautThe following are the basic principles and axioms upon which allpublic debate must be conducted if you wish to be a true progressiveand leftist person who cares:1. Leftists should be free to call everyone else nasty names, becausethey are so moral, but no one should be permitted to call leftistsanything.2. For a leftist to call someone nasty names

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Beckaphobia Israeli leftists have long had an intense hatred towards Americanconservatives. This is in spite of the fact that Americanconservatives are almost all pro-Israel. On second though, the hatredof Israeli leftists towards them is precisely BECAUSE they arepro-Israel. Israeli leftists insist that Israel should only allow itself to bebefriended by foreign leftists. Never mind that

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Call to Arms! . I would like to ask you take a few minutes in order to helpremove the criminal anti-Semite Larry Derfner from his position ofcolumnist at the Jerusalem Post and to petition that he be indictedand jailed for supporting mass murder against Jews. Derfner is fairly well known to most of you. He is probably themost extremist leftist columnist writing at the Jerusalem Post. He

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Some fast thoughts:1. This is actually from a talkback comment on Frontpage Magazineabout something else but I think it sums up the Israeli tentprotesters deliciously::'My favorite part is when "Anarchists" who are too historicallyilliterate to know that Anarchism means to be AGAINST having agovernment, commit violence to show how much they want statebenefits.'2. The tent protesters are

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1. Reprint of piece from 2006:http://www.jewishpressads.com/pageroute.do/20072/THE ROCKET BLITZBy: Steven PlautDate: Wednesday, December 06 2006 A fascinating question of history is what might have happenedhad Neville Chamberlain not resigned in May 1940 but continued on asBritish prime minister, with Winston Churchill never taking command.What would have happened during the blitz as

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I think that the time has come to send messages of greetings andfelicitations to the heads of Iran for their arresting three American"hikers" and convicting two of them over the weekend for "espionage." The convictions seem to be empirical proof that God has a sense ofhumor.Why? Because all three are long-time activists in the "BDS"Boycott-Israel and Cheer Palestinian Terrorism "solidarity"

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1. Would it not be nice if people simply said what they mean? Allthose tent protesters whining about "piggish capitalism" and yearningfor "Scandinavian socialism" when what they really want is freehandouts, rent controls with the housing in consequential shortagebeing granted to them, and a comfortable standard of living withouthaving to work too hard. And then, when Israeli leftists

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This evening a shorter version of the article that is pasted belowcame out in the NY Jewish Press, and can be read athttp://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/49383I am taking advantage of your patience by pasting here the longerfuller version of the article. The shorter version can be read fromthe address just mentioned.Is the Talmud anti-Christian?By Steven PlautFor centuries Jews have been

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1. Goatgatehttp://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-need-to-investigate-senator-leahys.html I would like to propose that the Knesset investigate whetherSenator Patrick Leahy is romantically involved with goats. I can think of no more appropriate response to Leahy's call to cutaid to Israel because of the actions taken by Israel's three mostelite military units: Shayetet 13 unit,

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This is not the most earthshaking news item but it is one of the most bizarre.Let us tell you about Judgette Shira Scheindlin. She does not thinkthat the First Amendment entitles Jews in prison to eat matzos anddrink grape juice. Here is the story:http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/judge+rules+inmate+constitutional+right+matzo+juice/5249612/story.htmlU.S. judge rules inmate has no

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Does Scandinavian Socialism Work?http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/12/does-scandinavian-socialism-work/Posted By Steven Plaut On August 12, 2011 @ 12:35 am In DailyMailer,FrontPage | 1 CommentThere is nothing like a good stock market bear run to get all themedia wags out and chattering about the "death of capitalism."Invariably the same folks take to lecturing the rest of us about howthe only hope

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In the late 1990s I joined a web site that was documenting thesuppression of freedom of speech in Israel. It was set up by KarlEricson (who is not Jewish as far as I know.) The site stoppedoperating in the early 2000's. It is still up athttp://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/shelp/speechisrael.htmAndhttp://www.primechoice.com/philosophy/shelp/speechisrael.htmAs I myself had forgotten many of

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As the Israeli media claim that "hundreds of thousands" (yeah, sure)were out last night protesting for "social change" and social justice:Thought for the month:Everyone wants to make social justice; nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.(based on a famous quip by PJ O'Rourke)

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Pining for BolshevismIt is difficult to explain to people living outside of Israel, andespecially to Americans, the extent to which Israelis truly believe incommunism.Sometimes they call it socialism, but they basically mean communism.This is not to say that they behave as communists in their privatelives. Quite the contrary, Israelis live as the ultimate ideal ofcapitalism. They are enormously

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Israel's Left has a new cause celebre. It seems that a study has justbeen issued that claims that Israeli Arab criminals get harshersentences on average in courts than Jewish criminals. Haaretz hasadopted this "cause" with special enthusiasm and is running loudpieces wailing about discrimination against Arabs in Israeli courts.See this: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/

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I usually do not burden you with articles about economics, except inthe case of cyber-pen-pals suffering from sleep disorders.But what with the collapse of "Obamanomics" or Obama stimulus policy,the extremely high American unemployment rate, the poor performance ofthe US economy in spite of multi-trillions in federal expenditures on"stimulus," the debt limit crisis in the US this week, and the

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Yesterday saw one of the most important developments in the annals ofIsraeli higher education. Yesterday the Hebrew University decided tofire Prof. Eyal Ben Ari.We have been reporting about the radical anti-Israel leftistsociologist Ben Ari for several years. Ben Ari, who markets himselfas a feminist sociologist and is listed by the university as part ofWomen's Studies, was the main supervisor

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1. Israel's summer Woodstock on the Yarkon festival continues, withthousands of protesters (or, if you write for Haaretz, 150,000protesters, all standing in a square that can hold 40,000) taking tothe streets to posture their concern for the downtrodden and theirdemands for "social justice." While no two protesters seem to wantthe same things, most of them agree that the highest form of

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An Open Letter to a Tent ProtesterDear S: Thank you for your note clarifying the reasons for yourparticipating in the tent protests in Tel Aviv and for clarifying yourdemands for "affordable housing alternatives." I must say that I was a little unclear as to why you think theredo not exist "affordable housing alternatives" in Israel and why youthink it is the responsibility of the government

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Israel really must do something about the violent anti-Rabbiincitement in the country, especially now that it has produced thecold-blooded murder of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira. The Rabbi, aged 70,was grandson of the famous Moroccan Jewish kabbalist, the Baba Sali.(http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4101678,00.html ) He wasstabbed to death by a 42 year old Jewish man. Clearly the

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Israel is now awash in silliness with regard to the streetprotests and marches over housing prices. The media are proclaimingthis a dramatic social revolution, something like those revolts inTunisia and Egypt. One cannot read three sentences in the newspapersor listen to the radio without hearing pontifications about "socialjustice" and "social revolt." Indeed, media commentator after

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1. The latest judicial atrocity from the Israeli Supreme Court:Israel's Supreme Court continues its battle against democracy andfreedom of speech. To be more precise, it defends defamation as"protected speech" whenever the defamatory comments are made byradical Leftists or by pro-terror Arab nationalists, while labelingexercise of freedom of speech by non-leftists as defamation.In the latest

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1. Unlike all the other Israelis in love with Hagit Yaso, I can tellyou the exact moment when I fell in love with her. It was the firstand only time that I watched "A Star is Born," Israel's analogue to"American Idol." It is not something I voluntarily watch. But I wasin the hospital ward after surgery, unable to get up to turn the TVoff. And that is where it happened.You probably have

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1. http://hurryupharry.org/2011/07/23/anders-beivik-imagined-cautious-alliance-with-jihadists-we-both-share-one-common-goal/Anders Beivik imagined cautious alliance with Jihadists: "We bothshare one common goal"Cross-Post, July 23rd 2011, 10:00 pmby Joseph WHe said:An alliance with the Jihadists might prove beneficial to both partiesbut will simply be too dangerous (and might prove to be

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1. Well, golly gee. The entire world media is suddenly denouncing"terrorism." Not a single Norwegian government spokesman or newspaperreferred to the killer as an activist or a militant. This is the sameNorwegian government that has been lobbying for a Palestinian stateand condemns Israel whenever it uses force against terrorists.CNN was suddenly using the "T" word. NY Times commentators

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Here is the opening statement from the PACBI.com web site, whichexposes and mocks those particpating in the BDS (boycott, divest,sanctions) movement of economic aggression against Israel and Jews:Welcome to PACBI.com, the leading web site in the growing BDS movement!!Here we tell you everything you need to know about anti-Zionism andBDS! Just what is BDS?BDS stands for Bigots, Dingbats and

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This week I sent out several items related to the long-runningjudicial atrocity in the Neve Gordon SLAPP suit against me, and in therefusal of the Israeli judicial system to defend freedom of speech. I am tempted to say that this was the worst and most outrageousjudicial atrocity in Israeli history. But I am afraid it was not.The decision this week by the Israeli Supreme Court (or what some

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/3141 OpinionThe David Irving Trial in IsraelThe Israeli 'David Irving' is himself an Israeli and a Jew. Moreover,while David Irving was never on the faculty of a bona fide academicinstitution, the plaintiff in the Israeli David Irving Trial is. He isDr. Neve Gordon, from the Department of Political Science atBen-Gurion University.From

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_threat_to_israeli_liberties_from_the_israeli_supreme_court.htmlThe Threat to Israeli Liberties from the Israeli Supreme CourtBy Steven PlautRobert Bork, the eminent American law professor from Yale University,once described the Israeli Supreme Court as the worst in the Westernworld. Israel, Bork wrote, "has set a standard for judicialimperialism that

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http://thejewishpress.blogspot.com/2011/07/political-string-pulling-and-hiring.htmlBenny Morris, the one time Post-Zionist pseudo-historian, and today asometimes Zionist, has decided to reveal the true circumstances of hisbeing hired at Ben Gurion University, despite having an academic trackrecord at the time consisting of a few Bash-Israel books inanti-Israel historic revisionism:http://

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The hysteria of Israel's radical Left in light of the new anti-boycottlaw is growing by the hour.The problem with Israeli leftists is that they are anti-democratic andknow they can never persuade the public to pursue leftist policiesusing the democratic process. There would be nothing wrong withleftists trying to convince the public using democratic means andpersuasion that settlements are awful

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1. Israel's Supreme Court took yet another step towards suppressingfreedom of speech when it ruled this week that telling the truth is nodefense against being charged with the crime of "insulting a publicofficial." Israel is probably the only democracy on earth that has aSoviet-like law against offending public servants. In the case inquestion, a man stood alone in front of a police station

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1. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4094600,00.htmlNew law protects democracyOp-ed: The only undemocratic aspect of Boycott Law is opposition'sattempt to thwart itYariv LevinThe other day we thwarted an attempted legal putsch aimed at tramplingthe Knesset's sovereignty in favor of the political considerations ofa national minority. The deceptive scaremongering campaign against

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1. In recent months there have a series of measures proposed in theIsraeli Knesset to defend Israel and Israeli democracy. These are byand large designed to rein in the Israeli treasonous Left. Among themare measures to strip anti-Israel subversive leftist NGOs of their taxexempt status, and requiring full disclosure of sources of funding forthem. Other proposals involve requiring an oath of

Steven Plautnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-48164125282504343712011-07-14T11:18:00.001+03:002011-07-14T11:18:15.829+03:00

One indication that the "Anti-Boycott" law just passed in Israel isenormously popular is the fact that Bibi Netanyahu is now paradingabout and bragging about having been the law's sponsor. Netanyahudoes not take credit for ANYTHING unless he thinks it has populistappeal.The Israeli anti-democratic Left of course is in hysterics, screamingthat the law is "fascism." Anything that makes the Left

Steven Plautnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-68351881971808665112011-07-12T14:54:00.001+03:002011-07-12T14:54:15.799+03:00

1. The Knesset indeed passed the "sanctions against boycotters" billlast night by a comfortable majority. In spite of the shrieks andwails of the moonbatocracy. It was opposed by almost all of theIsraeli media, including the Jerusalem Post, which continues its marchto the left: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10400The bill establishes various kinds of sanctions against

Steven Plautnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3924474.post-54954807611702270532011-07-10T14:06:00.001+03:002011-07-10T14:06:41.898+03:00

1. The Knesset is about to pass a law that would criminalize thoseIsraelis working for boycotts of Israel and of parts of Israel. Itwould cover those calling for boycotts of Israeli institutions,including the Ariel University. Indeed, the more controversial partof the law is the section that creates sanctions and punishments forthose working for boycotts of West Bank institutions and

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