Israeli Academics Face McCarthyistic Campaign

The Israel Police are weighing whether to open an investigation against Tel Aviv University Dr. Anat Matar, a leading member of Academia for Equality. saying her online eulogizing on Tuesday, April 9, the late Palestinian prisoner Walid Daka may constitute “support of and incitement to terror.” Matar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy,…

With the Suspension of Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Israeli Academia is Entering the Abyss

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, suspended Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Tuesday, March 12, for denouncing Israel’s deadly war in Gaza during an interview. Shalhoub-Kevorkian had been under pressure to resign from the university since late October, when she signed a call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “Since the war began, Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian has expressed herself in a…

Nakba Day Event at Tel Aviv University

Hundreds of protesters carrying Palestinian flags held the Nakba Day rally at Tel Aviv University on Monday. Communist Party of Israel Secretary General Adel Amer and Hadash MK Ofer Cassif took part in the rally as well. The large crowd of Arab students and Jewish supporters, among them dozens of lecturers, waved Palestinian flags and…

University Cancels Disciplinary Proceedings Against Hadash Student

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev canceled on Wednesday the disciplinary proceedings against Watan Madi, a student and leading Hadash activist, for using the word “shahid’ (martyr) during a ceremony last May marking the Nakba Day. The University’s academic secretariat further explained that holding a new procedure would lead to “unreasonable delay of justice”, therefore the…

Communist Professor Will Receive Israel Prize, Supreme Court Rules

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton must award the Israel Prize to a professor who supports the struggle against occupation of the Palestinian territories. A petition against Shasha-Biton’s decision was filed by the members of the prize committee that had initially awarded the honor to mathematician Prof. Oded Goldreich, a researcher…