The Left's 'First Amendment' Strikes the Weizmann Institute

Israeli universities are as crowded with left-wing moonbats and tenured traitors as are American campuses. These are documented and exposed by Israel Academia Monitor, which is the Israeli cousin watchdog group to Campus Watch in the US.

Ordinarily Weizmann Institute is not the main target on anyone's radar screen for political correctness and suppression of academic freedom. It is usually the least politicized of Israel's academic institutions and has the smallest number of leftist faculty moonbats. But today's headline is an exception. Weizmann is becoming a new battleground for the Left's 'First Amendment', which holds that free speech is an important protected right for leftists only. All others can get stuffed.

Igor Pecherksi is a Russian-born (St. Petersberg) Israeli computer programmer, who works in the molecular genetics department at Weizmann. The administration at Weizmann Institute is threatening to fire poor Doctor Igor. His grievous sin? He expressed his political opinions quietly by wearing a small pin shirt. The pin is about the size of one of those little lapel flag pins. But it shows a small orange Jewish star. It is the symbol of the movement to support the Jewish "settlers" in the Gaza Strip and oppose their expulsion under the Sharon-Mitzna "disengagement plan". You can see poor Doctor Igor wearing his illegal pin in this photo!

Doctor Igor wears the pin when he comes to work. Some leftist busybodies on campus complained that the pin is interfering with their ability to do THEIR work. Now Igor is a mild-mannered skinny little guy, not exactly a Hulk Hogan threatening the leftist secretaries, as you can see in the above photo link. The pin in his lapel is tiny, the size of an AIDS ribbon. THAT is what the lefties on campus claim is interfering with their work. Leftists at Weizmann of course always park their cars with the "Expel the Settlers" bumper stickers in campus parking lots, but THAT is protected academic free speech!

Doctor Igor is now under threat of expulsion and dismissal from his job for quietly expressing an opinion.
If you would like to tell the chiefs at Weizmann what you think of all this, go to http://www.weizmann.ac.il/homepage/pages/pres.shtml
and http://www.weizmann.ac.il/homepage/pages/leaders.shtml
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/committees/