News about and from Israel combines both extremes, or the far right including the Nazi extremists the like of whom the world has not seen since the Nuremburg trials, and the far left, which includes in its ranks Jews who attack the state of Israel and defend the Palestinians better than the Palestinians themselves do: Israel's attorney general ordered the police to investigate Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira. Shapira wrote a book entitled ‘The King's Torah', in which he specifies conditions where it is permissible to kill non-Jews. As I read, the investigation will also involve four other rabbis who co-wrote the book (As I understood, the rabbis were relying on the Halakha laws which permit the killing of non-Jews.) Then there is the Metzilah Centre for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Human studies. However, although I believe that Zionism contradicts humanity, I will overlook this issue for now to emphasize the study submitted by the center to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who belongs to the Likud party. The results of the study well invalidate the self-proclaimed ‘accusation' of the humanity of the center, as it concludes that “international law does not recognize the right of the Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to their homes”. I refuse to discuss this point because it is settled. Palestine is for the Palestinians from the sea to the river, and the grandchild of a Palestinian refugee has more right to his family home than Avigdor Lieberman, the brothel bouncer from Moldova who came to Occupied Palestine as a grown man and who lives in an illegal settlement – illegal just like him and his so-called country. Then there is Martin Sherman, an Israeli professor who worked as an advisor to the government of Yitzhak Shamir, which spares me the need to elaborate any further. He recently wrote an article entitled ‘The Palestinian Problem: A Real Solution'. The article's bottom-line is that UNRWA should be abolished, the Arab ‘discrimination' against the Palestinians must end, and that the Palestinians must be given the freedom to choose (as long as they choose to stay where they are). I was going to suggest that Sherman return to South Africa where he was born. However, the apartheid regime there collapsed, and power is now in the hands of the country's natives and so they do not need a settler like him to give them advice. Israel in its current form is the successor of the South African apartheid and its racial segregation system. The campaigns to delegitimize Israel are in truth spearheaded by Western churches and world class universities, because the Hebrew state's fascist government can no longer hide behind the memory of the Holocaust, as it occupies, murders and destroys. Before I move on to the Israeli left, I pause and note that my information on today's topic has been entirely drawn from Israeli sources such as Israeli newspapers, or Jewish American sources aligned with Likud, in addition to other similar sources. The President of the Bar-Ilan University, Professor Moshe Kaveh, complained during a conference in Israel that there are Israeli university professors calling for an academic boycott of Israel, and for collaboration between Western and Israeli universities to be suspended in solidarity with the Palestinians. He threatened to sack such professors, in parallel with similar threats by the Minister of Education Gideon Saar (or Gideon ‘Rabid' [Ar. Saar = Rabidity]). As a result, 500 Israeli university professors, along with former Education Minister Yuli Tamir, sent a letter to Saar objecting to his stances, and voiced their support for the advocates of the boycott. The strangest thing I read about this subject was the campaign launched by an American Likudnik website against Ben-Gurion University. This website usually specializes in attacking Islam and Muslims, with emphasis on the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This time, I read an article published by the site and I translated the below excerpts: Academic freedom continues to be destroyed by the tenured professors. Academic freedom today increasingly means that faculty members have the right to agree with radical leftists and Marxists but not the right to disagree with them. This is considered “McCarthyism.” Ben Gurion University in Israel has long been something of a public laughingstock. Outside its science and engineering departments, it is largely a parody of a real university. It hires and promotes a large number of anti-Israel faculty extremists, in many cases people whose academic records consist of nothing more than churning out anti-Israel hate propaganda. The political science department there is without a doubt Israel's worst; it and other departments indoctrinate students into the hatred of Zionism. Ben Gurion University hosts Neve Gordon, the Israeli equivalent of Norman Finkelstein, best known for his campaign for a world boycott against Israel. Gordon has built an academic career upon denouncing Israel as a fascist, apartheid regime, engaged in state terror, a country whose existence Gordon wants ended.[end] If the Likudnik website is sincere in its analysis of Ben-Gurion University and Professor Gordon, then what it published really means is “From your own mouth I condemn you, O Israel”. Power today is in the hands of the Israeli far right, with a coalition comprised of Likud, Shas and Yizrael Beiteinu. But I hope that whenever an Arab commentator or ordinary citizen attacks the Nazi inclinations of those, they will not forget that they have opponents within Israel who are much more opposed to them than we are. [email protected]
