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Ben Gurion University - Lee Kaplan Takes Neve Gordon (Dept of
Political Science) to Task; Provides Rebuttal to Gordon's Attacks on
Kaplan and the Haifa Court's Credibility
Gordon celebrates Rachel Corrie's "martyrdom" as one unconsummated
Human Shield for Terrorists only can. Kaplan fills in the blanks about
the terrorist-accomplice Rachel Corrie that Gordon conveniently wishes
others to ignore. "The Nation" itself refused to run Lee Kaplan's
Rebuttal, showing that its one-time Stalinistic Tendencies are still
alive and well!

One such victim of the demise of academic standards [in the Social
Science and Humanities, particularly in History and Political Science
and Communications Departments] was the young woman Rachel Corrie, who
died while trying to interfere with the work of an Israeli army earth
mover operating in Gaza…

… Gordon recently wrote an Op-Ed piece in the extremist anti-Semitic
"The Nation," magazine, which celebrated the "martyrdom" of Rachel
Corrie and questioned my own journalistic integrity. This coming from
someone whose main venue for venting his opinions is the Neo-Nazi
"Counterpunch" web site and whose Bash-Israel diatribes are also
published on the site of Holocaust Denier Ernst Zundel.

Gordon specifically attacks me for my mentioning a photograph that was
cited in the 145 page transcript of the trial in which ISM activists
in the West Bank are shown waving terrorist-provided machine guns in
the presence of an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade terrorist and a Palestinian
policeman.
…
Gordon is supposed to be a college professor so one might assume he
knows how to do research. Well, one would be wrong. Gordon's academic
record consists almost entirely of churning out anti-Israel hate
propaganda misrepresented as research. The photos, he claims,
attempted to impute guilt of the ISM by association. My article here
names the people in the photos and discusses the ISM at length…

Before I parse the rest of Gordon's "article" in the Nation, let me
show you another photo, this one of Neve Gordon:



The above photo was taken shortly after the Passover Massacre in
Netanya, Israel in 2002, where 31 people, some Holocaust survivors,
were murdered by a suicide bomber who was dispatched and paid by
Yasser Arafat himself. Gordon, in the photo, was acting as a human
shield for Arafat who was surrounded in the PLO's headquarters by the
IDF. Gordon entered Ramallah illegally, a bit like Rachel Corrie in
Gaza, in order to interfere with Israeli army anti-terror operations.

The ISM was founded by similar "human shields." You can see why Gordon
embraces them. In the photo, Gordon is clearly making a victory and
solidarity salute in support of Arafat.
…
What Neve Gordon conveniently left out in his column in the Nation was
that Rachel Corrie was recruited and trained by the ISM. She was even
given a training manual, one that I furnished to the Haifa court,
showing that the organization prepares all volunteers before going
into combat zones to interfere violently with the anti-terrorist
activities of the IDF. Marxist Gordon tries to suggest that Rachel
Corrie may not have agreed with ISM teachings about terrorism as
"legitimate resistance," when she supposedly made statements to the
contrary. Actually, Rachel Corrie wrote home to her mother in praise
of the "martyrs" (suicide bombers) who were fighting the Israelis and
in support of "legitimate resistance" (ISM Newspeak for terrorism).
Gordon did not mention in his article in The Nation that Rachel Corrie
wrote copious emails home to her mother, in which she described
entering the weapons smuggling tunnels dug by Hamas to bring out the
dead bodies of terrorists killed in them by the IDF.
…
"Professor" Gordon, like Rachel Corrie, likes to pose in front of
cameras with terrorists and to aid international murderers, while
claiming to be a peace activist. It therefore comes as no surprise
that he writes such an article in The Nation, insisting justice was
not done for the Corrie family. Since the Corries were not jailed by
Israel for their role in abetting terrorism, in a sense we agree that
justice was not done. The judge even ordered the Israeli taxpayer to
pay the state's cost for the trial for another ISM propaganda stunt.

The Corries are touring the world promoting the goals of the Hamas.
The trial was just another publicity stunt by them to damage Israel.
Gordon tries to beget countless other Rachel Corries in his lectures
when he calls upon his students to emulate this young woman who died
for the Hamas.





This Clown is a College professor?
How Little Neve Gordon's attacks against me reveal the sad state of
Social Science in Israel and the absence of Academic Standards at Ben
Gurion "University"

By Lee Kaplan, www.Isracampus.org.il
6/9/2012

I've spent the last ten years of my life working as a reporter and
investigative journalist. A great deal of my work has been writing
about college education in the United States and Israel, and how
indoctrination has replaced the teaching of thinking in social science
courses.

Our universities develop wonderful things in technology and medicine
to benefit mankind. But in social science and humanities courses,
particularly those in history and political science and
communications, "education" has morphed into indoctrination in
Marxism, "post-colonialism," Islamofascism, and anti-Semitism.
Radicals who want to impose their world view upon vulnerable students
"discover" pseudo-history and political paradigms of "oppression."
Serious research has been replaced in much of academia by the
expressing of opinions, especially those vaguely focused upon "social
justice." Pseudo-academic advocates promote academic support for
totalitarian regimes and terrorist movements like Hamas.

One such victim of the demise of academic standards was the young
woman Rachel Corrie, who died while trying to interfere with the work
of an Israeli army earth mover operating in Gaza. There she plopped
herself down as a human shield for Hamas terrorists to assist the
jihad. The army tractor was operating in a live combat zone, where
Hamas weapons smuggling tunnels were being cleared out.

Along comes Neve Gordon of Ben Gurion University in Israel, a great
groupie of terrorist groups and anti-Semitic propagandists, a
columnist for the Iranian state newspaper (which also promotes
Holocaust Denial) and the jihadist al-Jazeera. Gordon recently wrote
an Op-Ed piece in the extremist anti-Semitic "The Nation," magazine,
which celebrated the "martyrdom" of Rachel Corrie and questioned my
own journalistic integrity. This coming from someone whose main venue
for venting his opinions is the Neo-Nazi "Counterpunch" web site and
whose Bash-Israel diatribes are also published on the site of
Holocaust Denier Ernst Zundel.

Gordon is upset because I flew to Israel last year and provided
Israeli government lawyers with evidence about the real Rachel Corrie
and the real International Solidarity Movement (ISM). This is the ISM
of the Terrorist-Flotilla fame, which also sent Corrie to her death in
Gaza. After she died, Rachel's parents filed a wrongful-death suit
against Israel in an Israeli court and demanded damages from the
state. Gordon claims in his article that the trial, which took place
over two and half years and involved mountains of testimony from all
sides, was a miscarriage of justice. This from the same Gordon best
known for filing fascist SLAPP suits against critics of his own
political opinions as an anti-democratic harassment tactic.

Gordon specifically attacks me for my mentioning a photograph that was
cited in the 145 page transcript of the trial in which ISM activists
in the West Bank are shown waving terrorist-provided machine guns in
the presence of an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade terrorist and a Palestinian
policeman.

Here's the photo from my article, "The ISM-Terror Connection."



There were actually more such photos showing other ISM members
brandishing guns in them that were provided to the Court. In some of
them the women were disguised as Jewish settler women to infiltrate
Jewish communities in the West Bank and to aid terrorist groups like
Hamas. Rachel Corrie was in Gaza as a member of the ISM recruited from
Olympia, Washington.

Gordon then wrote:

"The two standing figures appear to be foreigners, the person in
uniform appears to be Palestinian, while the face of the second person
sitting is intentionally blurred (Why? We are not told). The title of
this photo and of another one next to it (with several people posing
in a similar manner, two with guns) reads, 'Photographs of
organization members holding guns, disclosed by the American
journalist Lee Kaplan.'

'Let's set aside the question of whether the so-called journalist Lee
Kaplan—whose claim to fame are articles he writes for the academic
monitoring website IsraCampus—is trustworthy and think about what
these images are meant to prove.

'The fact is that we are not told where and when the two additional
photos were taken, who the people in the photographs are, whether
Corrie knew them or what their affiliation is. Yet this uncertainty is
obscured by the placement of these suggestive photos adjacent to the
one of Corrie. Through this crude juxtaposition, the state attempted
to impute guilt by association."

Gordon is supposed to be a college professor so one might assume he
knows how to do research. Well, one would be wrong. Gordon's academic
record consists almost entirely of churning out anti-Israel hate
propaganda misrepresented as research. The photos, he claims,
attempted to impute guilt of the ISM by association. My article here
names the people in the photos and discusses the ISM at length. The
face of one person is blocked out because, after providing his
undercover report to me, his life was threatened. Incidentally, the
uniformed man in the photo is a Palestinian Authority policeman.

Before I parse the rest of Gordon's "article" in the Nation, let me
show you another photo, this one of Neve Gordon:



It speaks for itself.

The above photo was taken shortly after the Passover Massacre in
Netanya, Israel in 2002, where 31 people, some Holocaust survivors,
were murdered by a suicide bomber who was dispatched and paid by
Yasser Arafat himself. Gordon, in the photo, was acting as a human
shield for Arafat who was surrounded in the PLO's headquarters by the
IDF. Gordon entered Ramallah illegally, a bit like Rachel Corrie in
Gaza, in order to interfere with Israeli army anti-terror operations.

The ISM was founded by similar "human shields." You can see why Gordon
embraces them. In the photo, Gordon is clearly making a victory and
solidarity salute in support of Arafat. Captured documents have showed
that Arafat personally signed off on the Netanya bombing and many
similar terror attacks. Gordon has been involved with the ISM many
times and frequently is an honored guest at their anti-Israel
pro-terror conclaves in the US.

Gordon, the Israeli Norman Finkelstein, is still working as a
Professor at Ben Gurion University (in contrast with Norman
Finkelstein, who was fired by DePaul University for being the Chicago
Neve Gordon!). From BGU's ivory halls Gordon continues to call for the
dismantling of the Jewish state.

In his Nation article attacking me and the Haifa court's credibility,
Gordon further states:

"Underlying the state's reasoning is an Aristotelian syllogism,
bolstered by photographs, graphic figures and authoritative
references. The claim is straightforward:

1) the ISM is an anti-Israeli organization that supports violence and terrorism
2) Rachel Corrie was an ISM member, therefore:
3) Rachel Corrie supported violence and terrorism

The second argument was similar:

1) during the period in question, Rafah was a war zone and a closed
military area
2) Rachel Corrie chose to be an activist in Rafah, therefore:
3) Rachel Corrie willfully (and illegally) subjected herself to the
rules of engagement that apply in a war zone

If one accepts these conclusions and is convinced by the claim that
the Caterpillar driver did not see Corrie despite the fact that she
wore a brightly colored reflective vest, then it can indeed be
inferred that she carries the blame for her own death."

Absolutely, "Professor" Gordon. You got one thing correct. She was
responsible for her own death. The idea she was protecting a
Palestinian home, by the way, is an ISM fabrication, accepted at face
value by the "professor."

What Neve Gordon conveniently left out in his column in the Nation was
that Rachel Corrie was recruited and trained by the ISM. She was even
given a training manual, one that I furnished to the Haifa court,
showing that the organization prepares all volunteers before going
into combat zones to interfere violently with the anti-terrorist
activities of the IDF. Marxist Gordon tries to suggest that Rachel
Corrie may not have agreed with ISM teachings about terrorism as
"legitimate resistance," when she supposedly made statements to the
contrary. Actually, Rachel Corrie wrote home to her mother in praise
of the "martyrs" (suicide bombers) who were fighting the Israelis and
in support of "legitimate resistance" (ISM Newspeak for terrorism).
Gordon did not mention in his article in The Nation that Rachel Corrie
wrote copious emails home to her mother, in which she described
entering the weapons smuggling tunnels dug by Hamas to bring out the
dead bodies of terrorists killed in them by the IDF. Rachel did this
under the directions of her terrorist handler named Mohammed Qishta,
who was mentioned in her emails home to her mother and in other ISM
communiques.

Testimony in the trial by ISM activists proved she was not protecting
any "home" when she was killed. That was a fictional scenario
concocted later by ISM member Joseph Carr, who doctored photos to make
it look like Corrie was protecting a house when she was run over. Yes,
the ISM has discovered the propaganda potential of Photoshop!

I submitted to the Haifa Court a tape-recorded interview by phone that
I did with Joseph Carr just before the trial. In it, Carr told me how
he and Rachel Corrie had retrieved the body of a dead terrorist in an
open field right in front of noses of the IDF, after being tasked to
do so by Qishta. When I asked Carr whether he was afraid he'd be
arrested by the IDF, he replied, "No, because we knew the Arab snipers
would shoot them (if they emerged)."

Thomas Saffold, an ISM leader present that same day in Rafah, admitted
that Rachel had gone off on her own and was in a place she should not
have been; a place where the IDF was not expecting any of the
"protesters" to be. She was not protecting any house but was sitting
in front of a bulldozer to stop it from clearing brush in front of a
weapons smuggling tunnel. She did this because she felt secure that
the tractor driver would not emerge from his vehicle for fear that
Arab snipers would shoot him.

That is why Rachel Corrie did what she did. And it was to assist Hamas
terrorists in a known combat zone. Her death was not formally a
suicide and the Court never said that it was. Her death, however, was
the result of her own unremitting stupidity in playing a game of
chicken with a bulldozer whose driver could not see her.

"Professor" Gordon, like Rachel Corrie, likes to pose in front of
cameras with terrorists and to aid international murderers, while
claiming to be a peace activist. It therefore comes as no surprise
that he writes such an article in The Nation (or should we call it Das
Volk?), insisting justice was not done for the Corrie family. Since
the Corries were not jailed by Israel for their role in abetting
terrorism, in a sense we agree that justice was not done. The judge
even ordered the Israeli taxpayer to pay the state's cost for the
trial for another ISM propaganda stunt.

The Corries are touring the world promoting the goals of the Hamas.
The trial was just another publicity stunt by them to damage Israel.
Gordon tries to beget countless other Rachel Corries in his lectures
when he calls upon his students to emulate this young woman who died
for the Hamas.

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