On the Israeli Embassy website, there is a link to a page called "Colleges in Israel". However, some of these are not in "Green Line" Israel but in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. I have put these in a separate section - click here to jump to it.
It has links with the College Of Judea and Samaria - see below.
Recently, Bar Ilan fired senior lecturer Ariela Azulai, allegedly for her leftist political activity. Meanwhile Menachim Klein, another well-known left-wing academic, has been refused promotion.
"You brought the boycott upon yourselves": Gush Shalom letter to Bar Ilan University
Let's read Dr. Kedar's words of wisdom on the current situation in Gaza then:
"It is time to set new rules of the game in Gaza. We tell the Hamas that they have 14 days to hand over our
kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit, or we gradually cut off supply of electricity and water to Gaza. If the
Kassam missile fire continues, we cut off food supplies too."
(In "What to do about the Palestinians?", BESA bulletin no. 22,
October 2007.)
Crack down on Gaza now by Efraim Inbar, Jerusalem Post, 29th Aug 2007.
Includes suggestions like "Israel should not hesitate to create a refugee wave by warning
about impending fire on residential areas."
Gaza withdrawal? Do it right by Efraim Inbar, Jerusalem Post, 24 April 2004
Often mentioned in the same breath as the College of Judea and Samaria (q.v.), it's part of the Israeli government's agenda to "Judaise" the Galilee.
Zokhrot ("We Remember") demonstration on 21st May 2005 in Tel-Aviv.
Palestinian villages destroyed in the Nakba of 1948 are marked on a map of Israel.
Here, Teddy Katz lays the sign of Tantura, together with a young woman whose
family had fled from the massacre which Katz describes in his thesis. (Photo: Gush Shalom)
Haifa's National Security Studies Center hosted a seminar on 17th January 2006 by Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz Chief of the General Staff of the IDF. Watch the video here - if you can understand Hebrew of course.
The University's fig leaf
Here is Ala Hlehel's analysis of the appointment in Ha'aretz, 24th
October 2005.
"Realignment or extinction" in Y-Net News, 15th September 2006.
However, he seems to feel he has been misunderstood:
'I didn't suggest we kill Palestinians' Jerusalem Post, 10th Oct 2007.
Actually I think he says quite enough to condemn himself in his own words. Judge
for yourselves.
"NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), at Pasadena, California has expressed its interest in a new robotics program developed by researchers at the "College of Judea and Samaria" in the Ariel settlement, for incorporation into the planned 2009 robotic mission to Mars. In addition to space exploration, these new robotic techniques are expected to have terrestrial applications such as "Autonomous mobile robots performing security and defence tasks, patrolling roads and hostile areas" (sic!). As a matter of fact, in the settlers' own boastful press release on the Ariel/NASA deal there is mention also of an unspecified role for two other respectable institutions: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Tohoku University of Japan."
See: "The Mars Road
Test": Press Release of the College of Judea and Samaria, 16 May 2004
This claims that "No formal arrangement exists with NASA regarding the
project". But it's clear that one of NASA's senior robotics scientists is now
employed by the college, and continues to do research for NASA.
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