Two key professors at the Weizmann Institute of Science expressed sympathy and signed petitions calling for a boycott of an Israeli academic institution and thus cutting off creativity, diversity and freedom of opinion in Israel: Prof. David Harel and Prof. Oded Goldreich.
Harel was recently elected president of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, which is entrusted by the state with the representation, encouragement and development of all academic institutions, including Ariel University in Samaria.
However, Harel called for the same university to be reduced and eliminated, by stating that it should be prevented from receiving European funding or scientific support from abroad. To this boycott and terrorism.
The BDS campaign does not pursue peace, but seeks to undermine the very existence of the State of Israel. "
As Harel was elected head of the "academy", a line of professors, from the left wing of the political map, stood up and told him: "Tull is happening out of your eyes."
Do you not see the contradiction in your state position, which represents all the academic institutions in Israel?
In the tension between forgetting his moral positions and a senior government position rich in tuffins and honors, Harel preferred the position.
Another ardent supporter of the boycott and liquidation of Ariel University is, as mentioned, Prof. Goldreich. A professional committee selected him for the Israel Prize last year. When then-Education Minister Yoav Galant was exposed to petitions, which Goldreich signed in favor of boycotting an Israeli university, he decided that the award should be stopped. An appeal to the court brought the matter to the attention of the current Minister of Education, Dr. Yifat Shasha Bitton. The Attorney General's actions of encouragement and boycott of academic institutions in Israel are not considered in his eyes a "necessary evidentiary infrastructure" to prevent awards and honors of a defensive nationality in the face of its enemies. Combining internationalism and achievement.
There is no question that Harel and Goldreich had the right to hold their own, although there is a reasonable possibility that in Germany, for example, this was presented as an antisemitic stance as part of the struggle there against the BDS.
That's their business and that's part of our political discourse.
But to reach a position of shameless condescension, in which Harel and Gudelreich call for the liquidation of an academic institution and at the same time the state authorities are required to award the exterminators on their own behalf senior positions or awards representing Israeli nationalism?
It is there to ridicule and denigrate all the enormous effort of the whole of Israeli society to stop the destructive spread of the cultural, economic and academic boycott against it.
The award is given for scientific achievements, not for politics.
But the ones who created the affinity and mixed the two were Harel and Goldreich.
In a haughty mouth, they decided on the abolition of a legitimate university, which is an integral part of the academic system in Israel.
Is not this a political move?
Is this their professional opinion on computer science and encryption?
In supporting the Israel Prize for Goldreich, Avichai Mandelblit sharply undermines the ability of each of us to defend against the unbridled rampage of the collection of movements calling for the abolition of Ariel University first, then Tel Aviv University and for dessert a new high school, also built on Arab village land.
Where does the line of defense of nationalism in Israel move to preserve its ability to survive?
Two senior representatives of the public, education ministers, have made their decision to prevent the practical harm of Goldreich, which seeks to prevent the establishment and development of an Israeli university.
His friend, David Harel, worked to train BDS activities in Germany after the movement was outlawed.
All we have left to ask is - what else is required for a proper evidentiary infrastructure to allow us to defend ourselves against our enemies?
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