Zionist Conspiracy

Tel Aviv University – Chen Misgav (Dept of Geography) Describes
"Bodily Functions" - and the Death of Academic Standards at TAU

Universities are traditionally places where new ideas are always
welcome. Once a theory or question is presented, academic research and
study of the subject matter at hand can provide evidence and
information to better mankind through understanding. Thus the academy
can find a cure for a disease or explains why some cultures are
enabled to advance. Sadly, this has been perverted over the last
several decades, where academic inquiry is replaced by one-sided
advocacy, often for loony things.

…

Along comes PhD student Chen Misgav from Tel Aviv University's
Geography department. Bear in mind that at many universities,
geography is not even regarded as a bona fide academic discipline. …
And what does Misgav do for research? As far as we can tell, he has a
great time trolling gay sex clubs in Tel Aviv where he can claim his
sexual recreational pursuits serve the dual purpose of getting him
"partnered up" as well as getting him an advanced degree and
fellowships to travel the University circuit abroad as well as in
Israel.
…
Misgav continues:

"My research focuses on people and spaces on the event itself – the
party and the interior halls and spaces of the club, where bodily
performances, drags, alcohol, sexual practices and music connects
(sic) together. My main aim on this research is to check how bodily
performances, gender and identity expressions define special spaces
inside the club's halls. I conducted many field observations in the
club and later on made some in-depth interviews with people who spent
time in this club, focusing especially on gay men and transgendered
(sic) women. … In my paper I discuss these different and unique
constructions of sexual identity and the role of bodily performances
and gender through the production of these heterotopias. I will show
the extent to which space plays an important role in the construction
of identity through body performances."
…
Chen insists that we all have to hear about his homosexuality, which
is then conflated by him into an attack against "Zionism" and the
Jewish state.

"Bodily Functions" and the Death of Academic Standards at Tel Aviv University

By Lee Kaplan, www.Isracampus.org.il
4/1/2012

Universities are traditionally places where new ideas are always
welcome. Once a theory or question is presented, academic research and
study of the subject matter at hand can provide evidence and
information to better mankind through understanding. Thus the academy
can find a cure for a disease or explains why some cultures are
enabled to advance.

Sadly, this has been perverted over the last several decades, where
academic inquiry is replaced by one-sided advocacy, often for loony
things. In the American university system this has led to an
educational Theater of the Absurd: More than one American college
introduced courses on "The Philosophy of Star Trek" and actually give
credit for them. Georgetown University is currently offering a similar
class centered around black rap singer Jay-Z (a high school dropout
who supports the racist BDS movement against Israel). Students today
may not know Shakespeare or the Classics, they may not be able to add
and subtract and they lack critical thinking skills, or even how to
read and write, but they can discuss Vulcan terminology or discuss
their latest run-ins with their "hoes" and "beotches." Israeli
universities are obsessed with copying their American counterparts and
places like Tel Aviv University are more than willing to show they can
be just as innovative.

Along comes PhD student Chen Misgav from Tel Aviv University's
Geography department. Bear in mind that at many universities,
geography is not even regarded as a bona fide academic discipline.
TAU's website explains its Geography department as being "a leader in
research and education in Geoinformatics, Urban Planning, Climatology
and Water Resources, Human and Historical Geography." The site
continues, "Our teaching and research are inherently interdisciplinary
and we seek to integrate the natural sciences, the humanities, and the
social sciences. We offer courses in a wide range of geographical
specializations at the undergraduate, graduate and PhD levels."

So just how is all this manifested? By doctoral student Chen Misgav
inventing a new field called "Queer Geography." He calls it that. So
does Tel Aviv University.

And what does Misgav do for research? As far as we can tell, he has a
great time trolling gay sex clubs in Tel Aviv where he can claim his
sexual recreational pursuits serve the dual purpose of getting him
"partnered up" as well as getting him an advanced degree and
fellowships to travel the University circuit abroad as well as in
Israel.

Here's a brief self-description of Misgav's "research" in a Tel Aviv
nightclub where gays and "transsexuals" come to "socialize":
…"I would like to present a research taken place in one of the most
well-known gay night clubs in Israel – the Oman 17 Club. In this club
takes place a party known as FFF party, which has been running from
the early 90's almost every Friday night, and became a famous name in
gay nightlife scene and for the gay community in Tel-Aviv. It runs
(sic) since 2004 based on the famous Oman 17 Club in Tel-Aviv that
attracts mixture of gays, lesbians, straights and transgendered (sic)
people. It probably became the most important going-out place for the
transgendered (sic) people and maybe the only place that mixed gay men
and transgendered (sic) women get together under one roof."

What fun! Sounds like serious scholarship to us!

Misgav continues:

"My research focuses on people and spaces on the event itself – the
party and the interior halls and spaces of the club, where bodily
performances, drags, alcohol, sexual practices and music connects
(sic) together. My main aim on this research is to check how bodily
performances, gender and identity expressions define special spaces
inside the club's halls. I conducted many field observations in the
club and later on made some in-depth interviews with people who spent
time in this club, focusing especially on gay men and transgendered
(sic) women. I found out that although there is not any official
separation between these two groups, each of them produces a kind of
what Foucault defined as 'heterotopy' in the space that helps to
create a 'room for ourselves' inside the main space. In my paper I
discuss these different and unique constructions of sexual identity
and the role of bodily performances and gender through the production
of these heterotopias. I will show the extent to which space plays an
important role in the construction of identity through body
performances."

Bodily performances? We sure hope he wipes himself afterwards and
washes his hands.

We suppose that, aside from toilet activity, "bodily performances"
means sexual activity. Were these "field observations" anything more
than sexual voyeurism on Misgav's part, or was he in fact also
engaging in those sex acts as part of his TAU "research?"

Chen explains that he is a member of groups affiliated with the
International Solidarity Movement, groups that usually have large
amount of anti-Semitic homosexuals in them, like Anarchists Against
the Wall (AATW) and Solidarity Against Fascism (which supports Arab
and Muslim Fascism against Jews).

The question is this: Is "Queer Geography" really just an
intellectualized way for "queers" like Misgav to generate homosexual
trysts while trying to capitalize on it with a university degree?

Chen insists that we all have to hear about his homosexuality, which
is then conflated by him into an attack against "Zionism" and the
Jewish state.

He states: "The gay community in Israel went through major changes
since the eighties of the 20th century and especially in the nineties.
The growing visibility of the community and its political achievements
contributed largely to the possibility and to the legitimacy of
research on 'queer' subjects. Forming a political gay identity stirred
a process of creating alternative knowledge about queer issues in
different disciplines, knowledge that arises from the gay life
experience and that reflects it In Israel, Tel Aviv–Jaffa became the
center of attraction for the gay population and since the end of the
eighties in the last century a gay community with identity, visibility
and political power started to form. In my researches (sic) I focused
on few scales of the space (sic) – from the city and the streets to
the gay venues as the night club and the spaces of the body."

Reading that seems to be stimulating some noisy gastro activity in my
own rear spaces.

Misgav's faculty mentor at TAU is Tovi Fenster, a notorious
anti-Israel professor associated with the anti-Israel "Bimkom" NGO.
She claims to have invented "Feminist Geography," whatever that is.
Fenster has also been active in the semi-Marxist Van Leer Institute.
She led a Geographical Union conference despite her earlier acts such
as signing a petition endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
campaign against Israel.

Fenster's Bimkom is one more NGO seeking Israel's elimination. It
specializes in lobbying for most of the Negev being turned into a
Bedouinstan state. Ariel Handel, another PhD candidate at TAU is
another kommissar of the Fenstergrad camp at Tel Aviv University.
Handel's pretension is researching time and space and he then seeks to
use his "understandings" of it to promote demonization of Israel,
leading to its elimination.

But the real disgrace here is that academic standards at Tel Aviv
University have clearly been flushed down with the other Chen Misgav
"bodily functions" in the little totalitarian republic of Fenstergrad
Geography there.

# posted by Steven Plaut : 6:20 AM