Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tel Aviv University Professor leading British anti-Semites in "Israel Apartheid Week" - not a Purim Gag

1.  It will make you gag but it is not a Purim gag! 

 

   I would like to ask you to take a moment off from your Purim festivities and let the heads of Tel Aviv University know what you think of one of their senior professors leading "Israel Apartheid Week" activities in the UK.  Israel is of course the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid regime, but that idea is too sublime for Tel Aviv University tenured radicals.  I have a month's salary bet on the claim that he is traveling to Britain to lead these pogroms using Tel Aviv University funds.

 

     Adi Ophir is a fanatically anti-Israel professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University.  Much of his "research" consists of churning out Bash-Israel hate propaganda.  A review of his latest anti-Israel "book" appears here: http://isracampus.org.il/Extra%20Files/IsraCampus.Org%20-%20Seth%20Frantzman%20-%20Power%20of%20Inclusive%20Exclusion%20book%20review.pdf

 

The new report of Ophir leading the British Nuremberg rallies against Israeli "apartheid" is here:

 

http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=169701

 

 

TAU academic opens 'Israel Apartheid Week' on London campus

By JONNY PAUL, JPOST CORRESPONDENT
25/02/2010

 

Adi Ophir to share a platform with Sari Hanafi, an associate professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut.

 

 

LONDON – A Tel Aviv University professor is set to open this year's "Israel Apartheid Week" taking place at three London university campuses.

Adi Ophir, an associate professor at TAU's Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, will open the event on Monday. "Israel Apartheid Week" takes place at the
School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics and University College London.

In a talk titled "Anatomy of rule in the occupied Palestinian territories," Ophir, who is author of the book The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, will share a platform with Sari Hanafi, an associate professor of sociology at the
American University of Beirut.

Also taking part is Israel-born lawyer Daniel Machover, co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights. Machover is also a major player in the campaign to arrest Israeli officials who visit the
UK, on charges of war crimes.

Ending the week of events will be Israel-born filmmaker Eyal Sivan, who will answer questions following the screening of his film Yizkor: Slaves of Memory.

The event program describes the film as "a portrait of the Israeli society that has never been shown before" that looks "in depth at this imperative that is imposed on the children of
Israel."

The film accuses
Israel of using the "myths and symbols" of Purim and Pessah to indoctrinate Israeli youth.

"In
Israel during the month of April feast days and celebrations take place one after another. School children of all ages prepare to pay tribute to their country's past. The collective memory becomes a terribly efficient tool for the training of young minds," the program states.

Speaking also next week is Michael Warschawski, described as a "leading Israeli anti-apartheid figure," and Arab-Israeli Salah Mohsen, a member of the Balad party's General Council.

Other participants include Yasmin Khan from War on Want, a charity whose political campaigning and stance on Israel has been decried by the UK's Charity Commission, and veteran anti-Israel activist Ben White, author of a book titled Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide.

The event will also take place at
Oxford University; participants include Israel-born academics Ilan Pappe and Avi Shlaim as well as MK Jamal Zahalka, chairman of the Balad party, who has a doctorate in pharmacology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

"Hosting events which do more to drive a stake between 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Palestine' students is both unconstructive and irresponsible," said Raheem Kassam, national director of anti-racism pressure group Student Rights. "Never before have we been in a position to so easily bring people around a table to have practical and positive discourse on these issues, and instead we see downbeat, detrimental movements which achieve very little."

Meanwhile former MK Azmi Bishara, who is accused of passing information to Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War, and Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian National Council, who participated in airline hijackings in 1969 and 1970, are both to address a conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies over the weekend via video link.

 

 

To tell the heads of TAU what you think of this, contact:

 

President, Professor Joseph Klafter

Email  klafter@post.tau.ac.il

Tel Aviv University

P.O. Box 39040

Tel Aviv 69978

ISRAEL

Tel: 972-3-6408254

Fax: 972-3-6406466

 

Rector: Prof. Dany Leviatan

Email:   leviatan@post.tau.ac.il

and       rector@post.tau.ac.il

Tel Aviv University

P.O. Box 39040

Tel Aviv 69978

ISRAEL

 

American Friends Offices of Tel Aviv University:

http://www.tauac.org/site/PageServer?pagename=contact_us and

http://www.tauac.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_tau

 

 

2.  For more news about anti-Israel "academic" extremists, see

UC Berkeley - Professor Chana Kronfeld (Dept of Near Eastern Studies) battles Zionism, promotes Israel army deserters on campus

http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20Chana%20Kronfeld%20battles%20Zionism.htm

 

and

Professors fuel fire of anti-Israel propaganda

http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Israeli%20extremism%20-%20Professors%20fuel%20fire%20of%20anti-Israel%20propaganda.htm

 

and

Prof. Amnon Rubinstein exposes how "University Publishers" outside Israel promote the Israeli Academic Fifth Column

http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Israeli%20extremism%20-%20University%20Publishers%20promote%20Israeli%20Academic%20Fifth%20Column.htm





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