Israeli Jews Against Jewish Israel

While so many of us celebrated France’s National Assembly resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, there are Jews who behave in the age-old way of self-loathing Jews, something that has a long history. A bunch of idiots wrote a letter to the French newspaper Le Monde protesting the resolution.They claim that there are antisemites among those who regard themselves as Zionists. And they claim that opposition to the Zionist entity which is occupying and oppressing the Palestinian Arabs cannot be necessarily be regarded as an antisemitic stance.

They may consider themselves to be members of the intelligentsia but they are certainly not very intelligent. They seem to think it is smart to tell off those who recognize the human rights of Jews.

Are those Jews who write to foreign governments encouraging them to force Israel to do what they think is right (even though the bulk of the Israeli population disagrees with them) any different from the Hellenized Jews who invited the Greeks into the Temple to desecrate it? Remember, that act led to the Maccabian War that we now commemorate at Hanukkah.

Just thought you might like to see the list of 43 Israeli academics 42 of whom receive a salary from us, the tax paying people of Israel. Many of the others also have clearly Israeli names but they are teaching at universities in other countries. The total list of Israeli and non-Israeli Jews is 127. The first five on the list are among the 12 who drafted the letter:

Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of Jewish History

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor of Jewish History

Alice Shalvi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor Emeritus of English

David Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Asian Studies

Zeev Sternhell, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Ofer Aharony, Weitzmann Institute, Physics

Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University, Medieval History

Hila Amit, Holon, Freelance researcher

Yonathan Anson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor of Social Work

Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv University, History

Ayelet Ben-Yishai, University of Haifa, Asoociate Professor of English

Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of English and Cultural Studies

David Blanc, University of Haifa, Professor of Mathematics

Daniel D. Blatman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of Contemporary Judaism

Jose Brunner, Tel Aviv University, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Ideas

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of Comparative Literature

Tommy Dreyfus, Tel Aviv University, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of Law and Philosophy

Gideon Freudenthal, Tel Aviv University, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Ideas

Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University, Professor Emeritus of Law

Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of the History of Judaism and Contemporary Judaism

Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University, Professor of Linguistics

Neve Gordon, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor of Political Science and Government

Nir Gov, Weizmann Institue, Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Biology

David Harel, Weizmann Institute, Professor of Science and Applied Mathematics

Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv University, Professor of the History of Science and Ideas

Yehoshua Kolodny, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences

Micah Leshem, University of Haifa, Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Rachel Livne-Freudenthal, Leo Baech Institute, Jerusalem

Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University, Philosophy

Yehoshua Mathias, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Education

Oded Na’aman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Martin Buber Society of Fellows

Hadas Pe’ery, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann School of Music

Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of Education

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University, Professor of Engineering

Hannah Safran, University of Haifa, Center for Feminist Research

Dimitry Shevchenko, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies

David Shulman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor of Asian Studies

Dmitry Shumsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism

Niza Yanay, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology

Moshe Zimmermann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus of German History

Moshe Zuckermann, Tel Aviv University, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science and Ideas

Alon Schvartzer, Director of Policy for the pro-Israeli organization, Im Tirtzu, that first reported the letter, said:

it is sad to see that when members of France’s parliament are fighting against antisemitism, Israeli professors are fighting them. Once again, Israeli academics who live off of public funds are taking advantage of their positions to promote anti-Israel activities. This results in irrevocable damage toward the Jewish State, and the time has come for Israeli academia to root out this phenomenon.

Hear! Hear!

Perhaps what is most heartening to see is that about a quarter of those on the list above have professor emeritus status, meaning they are no longer teaching, reducing the impact of their anti-Zionism on the next generation (at least a bit).