Monday, March 22, 2010
Hebrew University "Mandel Scholar" Amos Goldberg battles Zionism
1. Every week, violent thugs, hooligans and terrorists attack Israeli police and soldiers as part of the "protest" against Israel defending its children from genocidal terrorists. The "protesters" hold these violent confrontations at the West Bank villages of Bil'in and Na'alin. They are the initiative of violent anti-Israel extremist groups financed by the New Israel Fund. The rioters include "anarchists" and members of the pro-Hamas Ta'ayush group.
Today in Haaretz, one of the leaders in this group, one Amos Goldberg, writes a mind-numbing Op-Ed article denouncing people who criticize those violent thugs or who challenge the right of hostile forces outside of Israel to fund treasonous groups inside of Israel. Goldberg's entire diatribe follows below. In it, Goldberg claims Israel is warring against "human rights activists." The truth is that his "human rights activists" are pro-jihad terrorists. Of course what REALLY has him upset is the beginning of understanding among Israelis that groups like his are being propped up, in spite of having almost no support within Israel, by belligerent groups outside of Israel, including the New Israel Fund. Violent hooliganism is "peaceful protest," insists Goldberg.
Goldberg has a long track record of churning out anti-Israel propaganda. Naturally he has also been involved in those protests in Jerusalem demanding that the Simon the Righteous neighborhood be kept judenrein. He insists that Israel is an evil Goliath oppressing the poor Palestinian David (http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-07-20-david-and-goliath-revisited). He has been arrested for his hooliganism (http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/HebrewU%20-%20lecturers%20get%20arrested.htm ). He is active in promoting the Palestinian "right of return," meaning their right to destroy Israel (see http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Petitions%20-%20Academics%20who%20support%20right%20of%20return.htm), and also signs petitions calling for world boycotts against Israel.
Goldberg is a "Mandel Scholar" at the Scholion Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University. The Center is largely financed by the Mandel Foundation in Cleveland. Mr. Morton L. Mandel – Chairman & CEO Mandel Foundation, chairs the Scholion Center. My guess is that he and the Mandel Foundation folks do not know what kind of people they are hosting and funding as "scholars." If you would like to let them know, their contact information appears here: http://www.mandelfoundation.org/MandelFoundation/Contact.htm
Goldberg here proudly proclaims his membership in the anti-Israel extremist group "Ta'ayush." Neve Gordon, another leader in Ta'ayush, once proudly described that group as seditious. He meant that as a compliment. NGO Monitor exposes the group here: http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ta_ayush . Ta'ayush promotes boycotts and divestment against Israel.
Here is the entire Goldberg article: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158057.html:
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For the next six months, whoever goes to these areas in order to demonstrate will immediately be charged with entering a closed military zone and will be brought to trial. |
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2. Haaretz today is carrying banner headlines about an Israeli Professor denouncing the Ministry of Education for forcing school children to learn details about the Holocaust. The article is here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158046.html Note the headline: "'Studying details of Shoah has no educational value." The article cites letters sent to the Minister of Education by Prof. Hanna Yablonka, who teaches history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. I am not sure but she may be the daughter or sister of communist party activist, Tel Aviv University Professor Eva Jablonka.
You may recall that Shulamit Aloni led the charge years back against Israeli youth visiting concentration camps. Aloni also opposed Israeli schools letting students read the Book of Joshua from the Bible. In both cases, Aloni feared that the experience could make Israeli youths proud Zionists and militant non-leftists, and THAT would make it more difficult to impose upon Israel the Far Left's agenda of dismembering and eliminating Israel.
In line with the official party ideology dominant at Ben Gurion University, perhaps Yablonka has the same fears?