His comrades in “Petitiongate” are not very different. Among the signers calling on Europeans to “recognize Palestine” are Shlomo Sand, the pseudo-historian from Tel Aviv University who is the most openly anti-Semitic “academic” in Israel, Oren Yiftachel, who has built an “academic” career by asserting that Israel is an apartheid regime, plus a gaggle of card-carrying communists, tenured anti-Semites, and Hamas aficionados. The presence of such people on the faculties of Israeli universities tells you pretty much all you need to know about the state of academic standards here.
The only thing the signers of the petition detest more than their own country is freedom of speech. The Israeli far Left is a fascist movement that ferociously opposes not only Israeli sovereignty but also democracy and freedom of speech for non-leftists. Critics of leftists must be silenced and indicted, insist the Far Leftists, because the exercise of freedom of speech by non-leftists produces violence and it is a clear and present danger.
Meanwhile the number of Tenured Leftists openly calling for violence and murder grows. The leftist Attorney General never prosecutes such people for their calls to murder. They are just engaged in protected speech, you see, unlike Rabbis who write controversial books or Non-Leftist protesters expressing their opinions boisterously. Many of the tenured extremists seek to suppress academic freedom for Non-Leftists, especially for critics of the Left, and also freedom of speech. Goldblum, the initiator of the petition for “recognition of the State of Palestine,” has a long track record of filing anti-democratic harassment SLAPP suits against those who disagree with his extremist opinions. Ben Dror Yemini, a dean of Israeli journalism, has denounced Goldblum as an anti-democratic fanatic.
The Israeli signers of the petition calling upon European countries and others to negate Israeli sovereignty and to “recognize” the “state” of “Palestine” not only hate their own country, but they also hate basic democracy and human freedoms. “Peace Now,” whose name in Hebrew is Shalom Achshav, should change its name to SHISIS = Subverters and Harassers of Israel and of Israelis. It may yet merge with ISIS. Its head should be renamed the Grand Israeli Scheisskopf.
