More Atrocities from Israel's Far Left

The German High Constitutional Court ruled recentlythat the local German neonazi party may be banned under law. The curious thing is that the nazis, who call themselves the "National Democratic Party" of NPD also insist that they are a liberal democratic party. I mention this because these neonazis are not the only anti-Semitic fascists around claiming to be liberal democrats. Actually, most anti-Semitic fascists today claim they are liberal democrats. They are to be found in many places, and even Israel has a movement of anti-Semitic fascists calling themselves liberal democrats. Many of these have tenure on Israeli university campuses.

George Orwell said that there are some ideas that are so stupid that you can only learn about them from university professors and lecturers.Israeli university's are crawling with flaky pseudo-scholars. Take the Op-Ed column in Haaretz Jan 30, 2005 by one Eran Neuman, a lecturer in architecure at Tel Aviv University (who insists that all of architecture should be conscripted on behalf of political opposition to "occupation" of the Palestinians, but not of course to the genocidal mass murder of Jews.

There are many anti-Israel architects running around Israel, and two years ago, two of the loopiest, Ayal Weizmann and Rafi Segel organized an exhibition on "Architecture against the Occupation". Their point was that the very design of Israeli buildings in the "occupied territories" shows how Israel is a brutal colonialist evil racist entity. Trust them, they are architects so who better to offer insights on the Arab-Israeli war!

After airing their "art" in Berlin, a place containing many people with experience in liberating territories from Jewish occupation, the Daffy and Bugs of Israeli architecture wanted the Israeli Architects Association also to show their "exhibit" in the Association's building, but they declined. They considered the exhibit blatant politics and extremist politics at that, but not art nor design. Naturally, the Far Left screamed censorship, since not allowing anti-Semites and pro-terrorists to use your private property to promote their views is in their opinion suppression of free speech.

Comrade Neumann in Haaretz Jan 30, 05 is all upset because of this "censorship" and also over the fact that not all architects have followed the example of Weizmann and Segel in promoting the destruction of Israel through critical art and progressive architecture. Comrade Neumann by the way teaches "Critical Theory" (which means Marxist boilerplate) at Tel Aviv University. Why does Tel Aviv University carry courses in Marxism, after Marxism was thoroughly disproved 150 years ago and discredited by the 100 million victims killed by communism in the 20th century? Maybe you should ask the officials at Tel Aviv University or some of their donors!

Meanwhile, I am sure these architects against occupation must have gone out and partied all night long right after bin Laden filed his own protest against buildings representing power and domination in New York and DC! Ah, but Marxist architects for the destruction of Israel do not even come CLOSE to this week's Israeli award winner for Dumbest Idea on Campus, which must go to Dr. Danny Kaplan, a sociologist at Hebrew University (you know, Baruch Kimmerling's stomping grounds). He also teaches "gender studies" at Bar-Ilan University and The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Community College. Kaplan is featured in Haaretz Jan 30, 04 in a long interview. Kaplan recently published an article in "Theory and Criticism," which is a brain-dead Marxist piece of manure edited by Tel Aviv University Marxist sociologist Yehuda Shenhav. You may recall this "journal" as the one in which an education-faculty member at Haifa University published an article a couple of years back arguing that his own university's architecture was nothing more than a large phallic symbol representing oppression of Arabs. Really! I think he got tenure for that article!

In the hot new issue of "Theory and Criticism," Kaplan develops a theory according to which any time Israel mourns for any of its soldiers who have been murdered by the Palestinian savages, this mourning is in fact a form of eroticism and that all Israelis mourning their dead soldiers are possessed with an uncontrollable form of homosexual necrophilia. Military solidarity among soldiers in Israel is erotic by its nature, insists Kappy. Really. I am not making this up. Kappy insists friendship and mutual support among Israeli soldiers is homosexual and erotic, and that Israel's mourning murdered soldiers is collective necrophilia and also homoerotic. My guess is he did his research on this point while stroking himself in the Hebrew University men's room while looking at photos of dead Israelis. Kaplan can be reached at kapland@mscc.huji.ac.il

Meanwhile, for many more horror stories about Israeli academia, stories you should bring to the attention of any prospective donors to any Israeli universities, please go to www.israel-academia-monitor.com !