This is another case of a democracy being so "open-minded" their
brains have
fallen out! This is a fifth column (i.e. traitor) within Israel
that should be deported to Gaza.
The University of Haifa currently offers a propaganda indoctrination
course based on one-sided propaganda being taught as "scholarship".
It is
in the Department of Sociology and is entitled "The Sociology of the
Occupation". It is taught by an anti-Zionist lecturer who is
probably the
Hamas' second-favorite lecturer at the University of Haifa: Dr. Yuval
Yonay. Yonay is a close collaborator with Ilan Pappe, including
in
promoting boycotts of Israel and "divestment". He helped to organize
a
series of "Nakba Days" at the University of Haifa with Pappe, in which
Israelis were called upon to mourn the creation and very existence
of
their own country as a "catastrophe" (nakba, in Arabic).
Yonay is a cheerleader for convicted nuclear traitor Mordecai Vanunu,
promotes the Palestinian "right of return," which means their "right"
to
destroy Israel, and has been active in the groups in Israel that organize
mutiny among soldiers and refusal to serve. He has petitioned to prevent
army officers in Israel from speaking with high school students, and
is
active in both the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas Gush Shalom organization
and the
Israeli communist party.
Yonay is a sociologist with a special interest in what he calls "Queer
Studies". Yonay's academic work includes such groundbreaking articles
as:
"A Queer Look at the Arab-Jewish Conflict" in Theoria Uvikoret 19:
265-75
(Hebrew), which is a hardcore Marxist magazine; "Between Silence and
Damnation: The Construction of Gay Identity in the Israeli Legal
Discourse, 1948-1988" in Israeli Sociology 1(2): 257-93 (Hebrew); and
"The
aw on Homosexual Orientation in Israel: Between History and Sociology"
in
Mishpat u Mimshal 5(1): 531-86 (Hebrew).
Yonay's course outline is crawling with postmodernist Newspeak and
gibberish, about conflicting "narratives" in the Middle East and about
"colonialism". The course outline by Yonay makes little attempt to
hide
the fact that Zionism will be represented in the course as a form of
colonialism and imperialism.
The course description contains the following caveat: "The course is
built
on the presumption that a complete separation between science (sic)
and
ideology is not possible, because ideological perceptions affect the
way
in which facts are understood and gain relevance." Well, let us put
aside
the question of whether sociology is even science. This course also
promises large doses of "New History", meaning historic revisionism,
meaning pseudo-history. New Historians generally think that facts never
matter, especially when they stand in the way of destroying Israel.
Required course texts in Yonay's re-education camp include material
by
Edward Said and assorted Marxists and anti-Zionists, as well as
non-academic leftist propaganda diatribes.
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~academia
http://israel-academia-monitor.com
Russian version
An introduction to MAOF
Haim Goldman
Haim Goldman
Dear Friends,
Would you believe that the undersigned has anything in common with
-- Professor Victor Davis Hanson (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University),
-- Dr Charles Krauthammer, (Washington Post, Time, The Weekly Standard),
-- Caroline Glick (Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post),
-- Jonathan Tobin (Executive Editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent).
Amazingly, the editors of the MAOF website decided that the missives of the undersigned are worthy of translation and posting along the articles written by these distinguished authors.
The first letter was published without the consent of the undersigned.
However, after thorough examination of the laudable attitude of MAOF and of the excellent contents of the website, the undersigned had most graciously granted his permission for publication of his missives in both English and Russian.
“Analytical Group MAOF” [1] is an organisation founded about ten years ago by Russian-speaking Jewish intellectuals. The attitude of MAOF is definitely pro-Zionist -- unambiguously and unapologetically.
One of MAOF’s primary purposes is providing information and analysis about Middle-Eastern and world affairs as well as about Israel’s history, values and dilemmas. In addition to extensive publication activity in various media, MAOF also organises excursions and seminars. While the vast majority of the contents of the MAOF website is in Russian, texts originally written in English are provided in the original [2] as well as in Russian.
There are arguably about 250 millions of Russian-speakers worldwide and many of them do not read English. The indisputable motivation for the author’s permission was to grant those millions of disadvantaged people the grand benefit of reading the author’s ruminations. If the author is ever maliciously accused that his tacit motivation for authorising the publication was his craving to be listed along with the above-mentioned distinguished writers, his plea will definitely be “nolo contendere”.
The editors of MAOF expressed their gratitude by granting the undersigned a privilege that no other author got – the opportunity to review and correct the Russian translation before publication. The original letters of the undersigned are at [3] and their Russian version is at [4]. At of today, only two letters are posted but several other letters are pending translation.
You are kindly ENCOURAGED TO RECOMMEND the MAOF website to your friends and colleagues worldwide, particularly those who speak Russian. Those who do not enjoy the benefit of proficiency in the exquisite Russian language can find many thought-provoking and inspiring articles about Middle-Eastern and world affairs in the English section [2].
Sincerely,
Haim Goldman
28.10.2006
REFERENCES:
[1] http://maof.rjews.net
[2] section.php3? sid=37&num=25
[3] authorg.php3? id=2107&type=a
[4] authorg.php3? id=2166&type=a