The University of Haifa finds a Pariah, or, Academic Bolshevism in Red Haifa
By Steven Plaut
Haaretz reports that the University of Haifa has decided not to grant an honorary doctoral degree to Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Aumann because the University disapproves of Aumann’s political opinions. He is decidedly non-Left.
The story in Hebrew appears here:
A few months ago the same University of Haifa had no problem granting an honorary PhD degree to Shulamit Aloni, and has granted similar degrees to other far leftists.
Prof. Aumann won the Nobel Prize in 2005 for his path-breaking research in game theory and strategy.
The University of Haifa has been in the news recently for the naked politicization of some of its academic units. The university’s law school was the focus of a blistering report by the Im Tirtzu Zionist student organization exposing the fact that some of its law clinics were coercing students into providing legal aid to convicted terrorists and are also collaborating with anti-Israel radical NGOs such as Adalah. The law school had earlier prohibited the singing of the national anthem Hatikva at its graduation ceremonies. Other university universities are similarly politicized and the School of Education operates an indoctrinational “peace education” program. The University also continues to allow the anti-Semitic “ALEF LIST” chat list to operate under university auspices and to proliferate anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate propaganda (see http://isracampus.org.il/ALEF%20Watch.htm for details).
In the past the University of Haifa employed Ilan Pappe and granted him tenure. All of this has been in the name of “pluralism and diversity.”
It turns out that Prof. Aumann is not covered by the University’s devotion to pluralism and diversity.
Want to tell the University heads what you think of all this?
Write to
President of the University of Haifa
Mr. Amos Shapira
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax: 972-4-8288110
E-mail: president@univ.haifa.ac.il
a.shapira@univ.haifa.ac.il
Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof. David Faraggi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8288094
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email: faraggi@stat.haifa.ac.il
Chairman of the Board of Governors
Mr. Leon Charney
Law Office of Leon H. Charney
Broadway 1441
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-819-0994
E-mail: charney@lhcharney.com
University “Friends of” Offices Outside Israel are listed here: http://www.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/friends.htm
bernard ross Said:
Here is the Lady to teach him about both: http://youtu.be/ypJlDd9QsiE
honeybee Said:
thanks. Just another subject he does not have any experience with but talks a lot about: women. His experience with women(abstinence) is less than his experience in business. Missionaries like to pontificate and preach on all the subjects with which they have no experience while practicing other pathologies. We have recently seen the pedophile practices of priests preaching abstinence.
@ bernard ross:
#10 good post dweer is also unkind to honeybees.
bernard ross Said:
dweller Said:
You incorrectly read the table: you must place your cursor in the square of Dec 1980 and a larger printed figure appears which clearly states 7.2%. However, even if it were 7.5% your statement that “Reagan encountered double-digit inflation on entering office was still a lie and a 44% increase in the unemployment rate would still be massive. However, you are wrong and the rate increase was exactly 50% based on the 7.2%. More importantly, All of your intentional obfuscation of facts, your denial of the veracity of the govt published facts coupled with your touting subsequent gov facts make it clear that it is a blatant and intentional lie rather than an error.
dweller Said:
you prove my point as you reject the dec 1980 figure and then proceed to quote gov figures after that which you believe are favorable to your argument.
dweller Said:
It’s very relevant because you claim the published figures are incorrect and you put a spin on the published figures which contradict the facts. In such a situation most readers would consider the ability and experience of the opinion holder creating the spin to be relevant: at least having some basic business experience. However:
dweller Said:
An unemployed actor and an ex convict with no business experience who first lies about the unemployment rate as being double digit when Reagan came in, then states the published gov figure are false, subsequently uses other published gov figures to make his argument, puts spin on the published facts that I offered in order to obfuscate those bare facts, then calls my offering of those bare facts without spin to be misleading,disingenuous horsehit.
what a funny man:
during the period of the late 70’s and 80’s I owned four operating businesses emplying more than 25 employees each, in 2 countries which were all successful and published. My first venture in Miami was published as as being the “what’s in” restaurant in the Miami Herald and they further published it in numerous articles without being bribed. I met with a member of your idol, reagan’s, CBI factfinding mission and discussed their facts after their trip. I held numerous properties in 2 countries, I held Florida real estate full brokers license and Mortage broker’s license; I brokered blocks of the South Beach art deco properties to NY real estate developer syndication’s; I packaged syndicates to investors; I obtained numerous variances for my projects from the cities of Miami and Miami beach;I got approvals for Tax Credits from the Fed for the properties; I brokered loans in excess of 10 million dollars to developers from my own international canadian sources. I put together investor packages for hotel projects in Dom. Republic,Belize, Jamaica, St. Kitts, and more and obtained approvals and funding from the govts and the IADB and the CDB. That is not a complete list.
You are a creature of ideological hearsay, a parrot of MSM magazines, you are neither an investor nor a business man. You have much to say about the many things you do not know(business, women, sex, abstinence,etc), you are a true legend in your own mind. It’s too bad that reagan only left you the community computer in the library.
@ bernard ross:
Actually the graph you offered says “7.5%.”
And it was KNOWN to be substantially higher than that.
— Between 2 and 3 million able-bodied adults had been out of work so long that they weren’t actively seeking jobs and thus were not formally counted in the “army of the unemployed.”
Wager? — Will you?
— Got a mortgage you’d like to put on the table?
“…The rest is ‘window dressing’…” is spin, not fact.
Irrelevant even if it were true. (And it isn’t true.) I’ve known LOTS of persons who were in business at the time (and knew many at the time as well) — and their business experience was absolutely NO index to their political understanding. Some were very knowledgeable of the realities. Others couldn’t find their butt with both hands, a flashlight, and a roadmap.
You give the same appearance to me; I’ve heard all your myths too. Untrammeled leftist tommyrot. So?
I ignored your question each time, because even if it were relevant (which it wasn’t), laying out an answer would’ve taken more time than I was willing to spend on setting forth my C-V. I did a LOT of things during the period (incl maintaining small businesses of my own on occasion) — as I was an actor.
When you work as a performer in that industry, you don’t get steady work unless you are a household name, so you do lots of other things to keep body & soul together. [No more than two (that’s “2”) percent of the industry works at any given time.] It’s all beside the point, however.
And by so doing, you illustrated my point marvelously well.
Projection in every particular.
From 7.5% to 10.8% is an increase by 44%, not “50%. And I told you, it was actually much higher than even 7.5% when he entered office.
What’s more, despite the predictions at the time of an economic downturn, the RR recovery that began in 1983 continued thru his 2nd term and carried over into Bush’s admin, providing what was easily the longest peacetime expansion in American history.
Eighteen million new jobs (and that’s a stingy estimate) were created.
Unemployment was cut to 5.5 percent.
The prime interest rate was cut nearly six points to 9.32 percent.
And tax cheating decreased substantially.
Not bad for a day’s work. Not bad at all.
@ yamit82:
Did you read the “Times of Israel” today? Israeli history is fasinating. It satands to reason that Yamit would have been a port considering it’s geographic location!
@ yamit82:
Think it would be fascinating, have arrowheads dated about 1500 hundred years,and old campsite near the San Francisco River. When I was a girl I always wanted to find an Egyptian tomb. I did find pottery sharhs in NM. I hope you kept the articles and had them nicely mounted and framed.
I enjoy watching them re-contructe a face from sculls,I like painting the human face and it is interesting to see the bone and muscle stucture.
honeybee Said:
No not in the Negev but when I lived in Yamit there was a Tel adjacent to the town. I bought a metal detector and did find some Byzantine coins Roman glass fragments and the feet of a Goddess statue. Lots of pottery shards and a half mile from the sea thousands of sea shells meaning that the sea level was much higher 2000 years ago. Apparently Yamit in those days was a Roman and Byzantine port.
yamit82 Said:
exactly, and why not; if people are dumb enough to buy it then swindlers will sell it.
yamit82 Said:
I agreed with most of the list of ways which reagan left us the worse for as a nation.
http://prorev.com/extreme.htm
“His appeal has been to private instead of public interests, the self instead of selfless interests. Absent is any call for public service, for common effort, for shared sacrifice, for actions that extend beyond the gratification of the individual, for a wise perspective on the experience of the past and a clear definition of the unmet challenges of the future. The result of this sort of thinking leads to greater celebration of selfishness. It means a greater green light for a new wave of greed so evident in these mid-1980’s.”
He did to the nation what the corporate raiders and carrion did to the corps in the 80’s everything is worse and it began with him.
yamit82 Said:
I use to do Social Work,RR wasn’t far off the mark!!!!
Been watching a NGC program called “Faces in the Bible”, I was wondering,while your shuffling about the Negev ,in you sandles, have you ever found any interesting artifacts?
dweller Said:
The truth seems to be the Jews brought down a bankrupted USSR as a consequence of the results of the 6 day war. Reagan never Bankrupted the USSR they were already Bankrupted from their mismanagement and unproductive economic system and the cost financially and depressed National spirit due to their losses in Afghanistan. While there were many contributing factors the final nail was the agitation and awakening of Russian Jews to leave for Israel.
Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974 signed into law in 1975,(Obama rescinded it) had more to do with the breakup of the USSR than anything RR did.
BOTTOM LINE
The true costs of Reagan
and extreme capitalism
by Sam Smith
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