- 16 Mar 2016 12:02
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After American AAA (merican Anthropological Association) called to boycott Israel academy the Israeli postmodern fellow travelers can't stay idle and they join the boycott game against one of their own members.
One of Israel Sociological Society was the late Baruch Kimmerling who wrote about the "birth of Palestinian nation" and "ethnic cleansing" not as an historian but a sociologist. Kimmerling, who believes that “academic institutions are an indivisible part of the oppressive State of Israel, which among the other contemptible and foolish acts that it has perpetrated, has committed unforgivable crimes against the Palestinian people”, opposes an academic boycott unless it is part of a comprehensive boycott modeled after the South African one.
http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli- ... Y1RTY5OEM=
The reason why most of Israeli academics follow the post Zionism (the Israeli version of “post-modernism”) is because postmodernism is the dominant coin in the humanities, rejecting it would harm your conference CVs and careers. once an intellectual movement have attained intellectual predominance, it is not surprising that Israeli academics would be attracted to Anti Zionists intellectuals as members of a socially dominant and prestigious group and as dispensers of valued resources. Such a perspective fits well with an evolutionary perspective on group dynamics: Academic group negotiating the intellectual status hierarchy would be attracted to the characteristics of the most dominant members of the hierarchy, especially if they viewed the hierarchy as permeable.
One of Israel Sociological Society was the late Baruch Kimmerling who wrote about the "birth of Palestinian nation" and "ethnic cleansing" not as an historian but a sociologist. Kimmerling, who believes that “academic institutions are an indivisible part of the oppressive State of Israel, which among the other contemptible and foolish acts that it has perpetrated, has committed unforgivable crimes against the Palestinian people”, opposes an academic boycott unless it is part of a comprehensive boycott modeled after the South African one.
http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli- ... Y1RTY5OEM=
Sociological Society calls for boycott of Ariel University
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Mon, 14 Mar 2016, 01:22 PM
A group of over 1,000 Israeli sociologists announced on Monday that they will sever all academic ties to Ariel University "since it is not located in Israeli territory."
Prof. Uri Ram, the newly elected president of the Israeli Sociological Society, called on Monday for a boycott Ariel University, located in Samaria.
“We will not cooperate with the institute known as Ariel University, which is not located within the bounds of the State of Israel,” he said in an interview with Army Radio.
The boycott initiative by Prof. Ram of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will first need to pass a vote of the Israeli Sociological Society, which includes some 1,000 researchers and academics.
The members are expected to discuss the initiative at an upcoming Society meeting in April. Should the motion pass, it would mark the first time that an Israeli academic association would boycott an Israeli university.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett responded to the reports and said he sees the issue of an “internal boycott” as a very serious matter.
“A boycott is not education; it is the opposite of education. A boycott is not pluralism, it is the opposite of pluralism, and will be handled accordingly,” he said.
“It is absurd that the fighters for academic freedom are taking the right to discriminate between institutions into their own hands,” he said.
“The Israeli taxpayers fund higher education with some NIS 10 billion a year and we have no intention of allowing boycotts.”
Bennett added that he has asked the head of the Planning and Budgetary Committee of the Council for Higher Education to propose measures to combat the boycott.
The university responded to the reports of a boycott in a statement.
“Ariel University is surprised and disappointed over the fact that people who espouse pluralism as part of their profession are acting on the basis of semi-fascist behavioral models that preclude them from living in harmony with those who hold different views.”
“Ariel University employs people with differing viewpoints, Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, leftists and rightists from all the cities and communities in Israel,” the statement read.
The university added that its diversity is “especially evident in the field of sociology.”
“We are certain that the announcement made today represents a minority viewpoint among sociologists, and it is certainly not representative of the many hundreds of sociologists across the country who weren’t even asked their views on the issue,” the university said.
Jerusalem Post staff and Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.
The reason why most of Israeli academics follow the post Zionism (the Israeli version of “post-modernism”) is because postmodernism is the dominant coin in the humanities, rejecting it would harm your conference CVs and careers. once an intellectual movement have attained intellectual predominance, it is not surprising that Israeli academics would be attracted to Anti Zionists intellectuals as members of a socially dominant and prestigious group and as dispensers of valued resources. Such a perspective fits well with an evolutionary perspective on group dynamics: Academic group negotiating the intellectual status hierarchy would be attracted to the characteristics of the most dominant members of the hierarchy, especially if they viewed the hierarchy as permeable.
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