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IDF Disabled Forum for Prof. Goldreich: "Give up the Israel Prize yourself" | Israel Today

2021-04-28T04:44:59.585Z


| political 60 IDF disabled people signed a petition calling on the lecturer to give up the Israel Prize due to his support for BDS: "Save us mental anguish" • His power came: "Taking opinions out of the fence" Prof. Oded Goldreich Photo:  Dana Ron, Wikipedia About 60 IDF disabled people have signed a petition calling on Prof. Oded Goldreich to give up the Israel Prize.  The High Court authorized Educati


60 IDF disabled people signed a petition calling on the lecturer to give up the Israel Prize due to his support for BDS: "Save us mental anguish" • His power came: "Taking opinions out of the fence"

  • Prof. Oded Goldreich

    Photo: 

    Dana Ron, Wikipedia

About 60 IDF disabled people have signed a petition calling on Prof. Oded Goldreich to give up the Israel Prize. 

The High Court authorized Education Minister Yoav Galant to re-examine the awarding of the Israel Prize to Prof. Goldreich of the Weizmann Institute, who supported the BDS movement and boycotted Ariel University. Goldreich argued that the decision not to award the prize stemmed from irrelevant political considerations. He put himself in when he called for a boycott of his colleagues at Ariel University.

The "If You Will" movement, which operates the "Know the Lecturer" website, which exposes anti-Israel activity by Israeli lecturers receiving public salaries, revealed a few days before the High Court hearing the petition signed by Prof. Goldreich, calling for a boycott of Ariel University. The disclosure was decided by the High Court to allow Minister Galant to postpone the decision to award the prize to Prof. Goldreich by 30 days.

"We, the IDF fighters who were wounded in the defense of the State of Israel, call on you to give up the Israel Prize yourself and save us all the heartache," they wrote in a petition sent to it yesterday. 

"There is no doubt that we fought, defended our bodies and were injured in the fighting so that all Israeli citizens, right and left, religious and secular, Arabs and Jews, would live safely in Israel, and we are proud that we did so so that you too can express your views freely and safely in the State of Israel." IDF.

They also wrote that "your insistence on receiving the Israel Prize despite your statements over the years against the state and its soldiers, as well as your call for a boycott of academic institutions in Judea and Samaria - which we remind you that both Arabs and Jews study - is hypocritical, fundamentally unfair, and hurts us even more."

"Working for society"

Liran Baruch, chairman of the IDF Disabled Forum for Israel Security, who initiated the letter, said that "awarding the Israel Prize to a person who has signed international petitions defaming the country, petitions in support of lecturers and students refusing to serve in the IDF, petitions calling for a boycott and investment From Israeli academic institutions, it is simply a spit in our face.

We ask you, do not sprinkle salt on our wounds!

If you have a little more sense of truth and justice, you must inform Kabbalah with a committee that you are giving up receiving the Israel Prize right now, and save us all the heartache. "

Advocate Michael Spain, representing Goldreich, responded: "Prof. Goldreich is not interested in arguing with the signatories of the letter, but would like to mention that taking opinions out of the fence is an undemocratic and dangerous act. Today he is attributed statements and deeds that are 'against the state' and tomorrow they attributed this to the signatories of the letter. "Everything that Prof. Goldreich said and everything he did was intended to promote what he thought was right and good for Israeli society, and the signatories' interpretation of things probably stems from their political positions."



Source: israelhayom

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