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And more than that, can one be “objective” and not “bias” while teaching the current dominant ideology? If one is teaching that for hundred of years religious Jews have preyed to come to and established the secular state of Israel, or that Israel have always stood for peace, and that the Arab states have always rejected it, or that thousands of Palestinian left their land with the advice of the Arab armys, does that not promoting an ideology and a political agenda? There is no such thing as ideas in the abstract divorces from politics.

The only propose of groups like “Monitor of the Israeli Academy” like their prototype “student for academic freedom” and David Horowits is to promote a right wing racist ideology as if it’s objective and not bias. The witch hunt that those two groups are prasoing against professors who do care about the future and the truth and are promoting critical thinking is fundamentally just to protect the dominant ideology. Also, to portray the dominant ideology as a victim (everyone who disagrees with us is Anti -Semitic) is ridicules, thousands of high school kids in Israel are brainwashed daily in preparation to the army, and millions of Israelis are lied to through the media every day.

The question, however, is what is the responsibilities of intellectuals in times of war and genocide. What is the responsibility of someone who teaches medicine when Israel bombs an ambulance or cut the electricity to a hospital? What is the responsibility of someone who teaches ethics, philosophy, or law, when Israel again and again disregard international laws? What is the responsibility of history teachers who teach the usual Zionist propaganda that has a direct affect, since some of his student will probably serve in the occupied territories? There is no such thing as ideas in the abstract, and by avoiding the issue or ignoring it one is only strangest it.

I think that the censorship on the Israeli academy is dangerous. Ideas should be regarded and debated in their own right and not according to who says them. Ideas should actually be debated by the people who believe in them the most, this is the only way to arrive at the truth.

In the third paragraph you ask what the responsibilities of intellectuals are in times of war and genocide.

It sounds like you do expect that some intellectuals will speak against war and genocide, and others, in other countries, will push them to do so. The problem, though, is that the situation is not balanced between the Israelis and the Arabs - the Arabs have no intellectuals, or at least you do not hear them. Look what is taught in their schools and universities. Look at their TV. And look at the reaction of the British intellectuals to that.

Actually, the problem is that when one brave Arab intellectual dares to speak at all, the Europeans are so amazed from the phenomena that they immediately encourage him/her no matter what is being said.

I am quite sure that if the intellectuals from the Arab side were as loud as the left wing Israelis intellectuals, and if the British put on those intellectuals the same kind of pressure, the "right wing" "Monitor of Israeli Academy" would be much less active in this matter.

I think that you should better write to me in Hebrew, I find it hard to understand your point.

Arab countries have a long history of imperialist and colonial intervention. The dictatorship regimes that are in the Arab countries are a produce of colonial intervention and in some cases imperialist military intervention. There are actually Arab intellectual who speak against the corrupt Arab regime who oppress their masses. Not only that, there are secular Arab movement who are fighting or have fought against those government regime. For example, the curds in Turkey have been fighting for decades against the military Turkish government who has outlawed their language bomb them with gas and raid their villages killing and raping. The curds, however, do not receive money and weapon from America, the Turkish military does. If you really are concern with the Arab masses their well being and their intellectual freedom you should target the country that provide their government with money and weapon and train their intelligent forces in tutoring political activists. Infect, you should start a movement in your country that would try to boycott money and weapons receive from America as long as the American government supports dictators in Arab countries. While you at it, you should also organize to boycott millions of dollars from Christian in the U.S. who are not only Anti-Semitic, but have supported dictators in Latin America in the past.

You fight the diesis not the symptoms.

And your point still does not take away the responsibility of intellectual to regard their ideas as if they only relate to theory. If you ignore the issues you only strengthen them.

What a dumb way to start your argument. The war in Herzegovina is over; some of the criminals who participated in that genocide were tried in the world court (a court that your government does not recognize). But maybe this would be the moment when you can silver from the victim mentality and understand that the holocaust against the Jews was not unique and rare. Holocausts have been happening and are still happening against different nations.

Again, what a stupid article and what stupid way to construct an argument, if I were you I would be ashamed to point people to my piece of writing. How was Nazi Germany so different in their action from the British taking by force parts of Africa and enslaving blacks raping china and enforcing the opium trade? How was the Nazi action different from the French occupying Algeria killing hundred of thousands of people? How were their actions so different from America invading Vietnam and killing 4 million Vietnamese? The British, the French, and the American have no problem sharing some of the cake with other imperialists, the problem became when Germany wanted the whole cake for her self.

So you find one intellectual that does correspond to your twisted ideology and you uphold her as “the important research”? What a bogus claim only to give some credibility to your lousy article. If she is such an important “intellectual” what does she have to say about England selling weapons to both sides in the Iran Iraq war, or about England invading Iraq, or about British soldier torturing prisoners?, is that is not terrorism? Of course not, the bombing of Iraq did not kill Jews or westerns. The hundred of thousands of people who died since the Iraq invention are just Arabs.

The fact that people are emigrating from third world countries is because of the exploitation of those countries by the west. These countries would not be the way they are today if it wasn’t for long history of colonization and the policies of the world bank. But why would you research some real history if you can ignore it for the sake of your argument? Instead giving a long list of terrorist’s activities in Israel why don’t you research terrorist activities on a world scale? But that would ruing your whole point would it, what would you do as Zionist if you didn’t have some victim ideology?

Just to combat your ignorance, here is just one terrorist story. During the 80’s “president” Reagan have unlashed the bombing of Nicaragua and sponsored the contras a terrorist group who would kill whole villages in Nicaragua. This happened because the Nicaraguan people have voted for a president who was actually going to take care of his people. Nicaragua responded by sowing America in the world court, which ruled in favor of Nicaragua and called for America to stop bombing and sponsoring terrorists in south America and to pay millions of dollars as reparation. America ignored that decision and kept engaging in her terrorists activities. Nicaragua than want to the security assembly to pass a resolution that all countries should observe international law and America was the only one who vetoed it. Nicaragua than tried to pass the same resolution in the general assembly where America and your “democratic” country were the only countries to vote against it (maybe the Nicaraguans are anti-Semitic too?). And all of this never stopped America from bombing and giving money and weapon to their favorite terrorist. Now, what are the implications of that for people who want to oppose imperialism in peaceful means (terrorism in your language)? Are the action of America in Nicaragua are not terrorism? Of course not, the Nicaraguans are not Jews (maybe this why your country sold weapons to the contras and other dictators after the Iran-contra affair).

Instead of just coping others people’s right wing theories and trying to give your dumb article some credibility by connecting it immediately with Nazism, why don’t you do some research about history and terrorism? Why don’t you try do define terrorism before you write a whole article about it? Why don’t you actually do some research about the involvement of the Christian movement from the slave tread to the war in Iraq before you decide that Islam is the most violent religion? Because all of that would actually reqwyer some critical thinking, something that you as a Zionist can’t really handle.

( if this to much for you, breath deep and say anti-Semitism, anti Semitism, anti Semitism)

You are barking at the wrong tree. Try D.A. who is also immune to evidence and facts but does not use foul language. Have your umbrella ready.

Indeed, and even if all that you say is true, how does that exactly contradict my argument? How does that contradict my statement about America, imperialism, the world bank?

Ill ignores your ignorance that can’t see the different between different forms of democracy and communism. There is, however, another point that you raising that are important. David Grossman is indeed represents the Israeli “left”. In his whole speech he never critics the war in Lebanon for the slaughter of more then a thousands civilians in a collective punishment, his only problem with the war is with military strategies. His praises of Rabin, again, are about how “he really did not like the Palestinians” but understand that living under fear and terror is bad (for the Jews not for the Palestinians). He never stops to mention that he himself supported the war in its first weeks. Is this is the Israeli “left”? a “left” that does not care about civilians, or the hundred of bomb that were left in Lebanon that are still killing people? What kind of a “left” criticize a war that was intended from the first day to be a collective punishment only when its not manage well enough? Only when Israeli soldiers die?

Your army is not what it used to be. The Israeli middle class have abounded slogans like “its good to die for our country”, and instead is dreaming about high-tack and a nice big house. Unlike the Palestinian they do have a lot to lose, and this why your army lost the war.

But you can always ignore this by accusing me of being Anti-Semitic. Because in the end, it’s all about who makes your shows isn’t it?

Your statement is so generalize that it can be applied to a philosophy of fascist. What are the interests of the collective? How does one hurt the interest of the collective? Does bombing the shit out of Iraq to gain control over the oil market is justify since the interest of the “American collective” is to be become richer?
How does the Israeli collective benefits from the killing of more than a thousands civilians? If it’s all about the collective why is your country invokes the memory of the holocaust every time someone criticize Israel? Didn’t the Nazis “advance” their collective by killing and using the Jews as cheep labor?

Your statement is too generalized and I feel lake some understanding of history.

You still here? Damn, somebody gut hurt. You answered so fast that you exposed your self for who you are. You started by accusing me of being Chinese (I gauss that’s a bad thing) and it took you two sentences to reclaim some victim identity. You were so mad that I said that Zionists can’t engage in critical thinking that you replied by engaging in…… uncritical thinking. What are you so afraid of? People will read what I had to say and will decide for them self. You’re so terrified by the idea that someone will break the status-quo and actually make people think that you immediately accuse me of being Anti-Semitic. Is this your “democracy”? Two sides of the political map who only disagree on how many Israeli soldiers should be sacrifice to annihilate the Arabs? Two sides who agree that the Palestinians are responsible for the killing of them by your army?

If I am the Anti-Semitic holocaust denier why don’t you prove me wrong? Why don’t prove me that America did not sponsor terrorism during the 80’s? Or that the holocaust was very different from the killing of 4 million vitamins in the Vietnam War? Or that Israel did not sell weapons to the contras and other dictators during the 80’s? Because for you all this information is dangerous, and as I said before critical thinking is too much for a Zionist that can’t see beyond their schizophrenic victim mentality.

I never said that those countries are communist in the same way that Egypt or turkey are not democratic. I also never said that there is no critical thinking in Israel but that Zionism as an ideology relays on ignorance and a victim mentality. And all you are doing with your answers is proving me right and exposing your self and Zionism for what you really stand for. Why are you so scared of the truth? Again, is this is your “democracy”?

If I was a Zionist I would be ashamed of the lame representation that you give to Zionism. You are playing the usual stereotypical Zionist who can’t deal with facts and turn around and accuse the other side of being anti-Semitic. Even if some how you were right with all that you accuse me of how would that contradict all my points about America, imperialism, and Israel? Does the fact that other countries commit genocide justify the holocaust?

Common, stop hiding behind your mantra and admit it, the truth is too painful for you, and you can’t really contradict my points. As a Zionist you have nothing if you can’t avoid the subject by accusing people of Anti-Semitism and talking about the holocaust.

“to impose a policy of complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state as in the case of South Africa, which means the imposition of mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and embargoes, the full cessation of all links….between all states and Israel” (WCAR NGO Forum Declaration 3/9/2001; cited in Pogrund, 2004