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It ain’t necessarily so: The textbooks children learn from in school reveal and shape national attitudes—and should provoke debate

Nurit Peled of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has studied Israeli textbooks covering history, geography and civics, says that...
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Oct 13, 2012

Eroding liberties: The ‘witch-hunt’ against Israeli academia

The Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE), a government-appointed body charged with the supervision and financing of universities...
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Oct 05, 2012

Hebrew University lecturer calls for expelling Palestinians as alien hostages in war against Muslims

Mordecai Nisan, a lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has a crazy/scary piece up on the rightwing site, Arutz Sheva,...
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Oct 03, 2012

State council seeks to shut down ‘leftist’ department at BGU

In an unprecedented move, the Council for Higher Education will vote on shutting down the Department of Politics and Government at...
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Sep 24, 2012

Palestinians banned from seeking top student post at Israeli college

Palestinians have been barred from running for election for the post of student union president at Zefat Academic College in Safed in...
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Apr 25, 2012

Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias

Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli academic, mother and political radical, summons up an image of rows of Jewish schoolchildren, bent...
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Nov 14, 2011

Racism spreading among students

Three weeks after the publication of a petition calling on Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar to take action against racism...
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Jan 19, 2011

Haifa University students prepare to rally against leftist teachers

Students at Haifa University reportedly prepared a list of "Pro-Palestinian" professors and a group of activists were preparing a...
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Aug 26, 2010

Israeli Academic Freedom at Risk

Born in Haifa, the son of German-Jewish immigrants who fled during the Nazi period, noted historian Ilan Pappe left Israel in summer...
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Aug 21, 2010

Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?

When it comes to the Israeli academy, said David S. Katz, director of the Lessing Institute for European History at Tel Aviv...
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Aug 07, 2010
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