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JERUSALEM-Israeli college professors who label their country a Nazi apartheid regime, teach that the Bible is full of myths, 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 antiterror policies of the Israeli military? These trends are rampant across college campuses here, according to one website-Israel Academia Monitor-which has been documenting what it calls the anti-Israel, at times anti-Semitic behavior of the senior staff at major Israeli universities.Some 20 to 25 percent of the humanities and social sciences staff in Israel's universities and colleges have "expressed extreme anti-Zionist positions, " according to Israel Academia Monitor."In addition the university staff have engaged in public demonstrations, prepared and signed petitions addressed to Israeli soldiers to disobey their commanders' orders and not serve in Judea and Samaria, and have been active in encouraging academic organizations abroad to boycott Israel Universities and academics," states a new Monitor position paper made available online.In one of hundreds of recent documented examples, Israel Academia Monitor's website lists Dan Bar-On, a psychology professor at Israel's Ben Gurion University, who penned an article in a Palestinian journal this past April arguing alleged Israeli "aggression" against Palestinians is morally equivalent to the Holocaust. "Some of the aggression that the Jews did not exercise against the Germans, they are expressing against Palestinians," stated Bar-On.According to Israel Academia Monitor, Bar-On has promoted textbooks in which terrorists are described as freedom fighters, and he signed a statement – later proved false – claiming Israel was about to perpetrate genocidal atrocities against Arabs just as Allied Forces invaded Iraq in 2003.Also at Ben Gurion University, the Monitor documents geographer Oren Yiftachel who wrote a book last year, "Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine," in which he argued that there is no place in the Middle East for a Jewish nation.According to Israel Academia Monitor, other professors at Ben Gurion University denounced Israel as an "apartheid" regime and claimed anarchists arrested during protests here are victims of "Israeli state terror."Controversial views are not limited to the Ben Gurion's teaching staff. In an interview last year with Academia Magazine, Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi referred to the West Bank as "occupied" territory – the United Nations considers it disputed – said she opposes granting university status to a major Jewish West Bank institution seeking to become an Israeli university, and admitted she recently attended protests against West Bank Jewish settlers accused of uprooting Palestinian olive trees. Many Israeli media reports claiming Jews uproot Arab trees are later proved to be unfounded. Moving on to a host of other major colleges, Israel Academia Monitor documents how Hebrew University sponsored a recent two-day seminar that according to its own published minutes discussed, among other things, dealing with the Israeli "occupation" of Jerusalem, and suggested students lead tours of Jerusalem that inform visitors of what Arabs call the Nakba, or the "tragedy" of Israel's founding.According to Palestinian account, the Nakba commemorates a period in which hundreds of thousands of Arabs were purportedly displaced from their homes by Jews. Many positions of the Palestinian narrative have been disputed by scores of history books and documentary evidence....To read more go to:
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