Ben-Gurion University is host to many of the worst anti-Israel extremists, tenured traitors, "New Historians", and "Post-Zionists" in Israel academia.  Some openly call for Israel to be annihilated.  Unlike other universities where such people are repudiated by the institution officers and officials, at Ben Gurion University they are celebrated and endorsed by the university officers as fine scholars and sensitive peace lovers.  This has earned Ben Gurion University its frequent nickname, the "Bir Zeit of the Negev."  BGU is so obsessed with hiring and promoting anti-Israel extremism that it sometimes trashes academic standards of scholarship altogether.

While Ben Gurion University is also home to many serious researchers and to some departments that are scrupulous in maintaining serious academic quality, it hosts academics who endorse law breaking and terror, who call for Israel to be boycotted, and who denounce Israel as a Nazi apartheid regime.  University officials there have never been bothered by any of that.  In fact, they celebrate their Post Zionists as heroes!

Among the many extremists at BGU is Professor Dan Bar-On, a "Post-Zionist" professor of psychology who used to be Dean of Social Sciences at BGU.  Writing in the pro-Palestinian Middle East Times of April 27, 2007 with an Arab co-author, Bar-On mimics so many of the vogue radical haters of Israel in drawing moral-historical comparisons between the Nazi Holocaust of Jews in World War II and the "Naqba" (catastrophe in Arabic), the fashionable nonsense term that is often used by such people when describing the "sufferings" of Arabs when Israel was first created. 

Bar-On, who was active in the movement to organize mutiny and insurrection among Israeli soldiers until Israel capitulated to the demands of the Far Left, writes:

The Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and the ruins of Deir Yassin may be in geographical proximity, but a world apart in the psyche of Jews and Palestinians. While the first commemorates the systematic mass extermination of European Jews under Nazi occupation prior to and during World War II, the second marks the village where Palestinians were massacred at the hands of Jewish extremists in April 1948, and symbolizes Palestinian dispossession and their struggle for self-determination....Israeli Jews have generally refused to take even partial responsibility for the Nakba (the Catastrophe) that befell the Palestinian Arabs in 1948. Such an acknowledgement, in their mind, creates a moral obligation for the Right of Return or its equivalent, thereby undermining their majority in the State of Israel....It may be not a coincidence that the new exhibit of Yad VaShem in the form of a deep mountain tunnel opens up unwittingly toward the hill where Deir Yassin was once located. That, for sure, was not the intention of the architect. It takes a new kind of courage to recognize the symbolic importance and implications of both Yad VaShem and Deir Yassin in order to go beyond them and envision a better future for both Israelis and Palestinians.   

He has been arguing that the Holocaust and "Palestinian suffering" in 1948-49 are moral equivalents for many years.  He signed a statement claiming Israel was about to perpetrate genocidal atrocities against Arabs the moment Allied forces invaded Iraq, but never apologized when this proved completely false.

Elsewhere he writes: "Some of the aggression that the Jews did not exercise against the Germans, they are expressing against Palestinians."  He has been active in producing and promoting textbooks that present the historic falsehoods that comprise the anti-Israel "narrative" as at least as valid and true as actual history.  For example, terrorists were always described also as freedom fighters.

Sistuh Shula, Shulamit Aloni, has a new article in which she discovers "fascism" in Israel (in Hebrew, here).  It seems the Israeli army radio station decided not to broadcast singer Aviv Gefen, and Israel TV decided not to broadcast another entertainer as part of Israel's version of American Idol, in both cases because they had never served in the Israeli military.  That is fascism, opines Runaround Shu, who long served in the Knesset de facto as a member of the PLO.

See Sistuh Shula above in the Knesset with the hand puppet she got from the Der Sturmer mail order catalogue.

Two items that appeared in the Middle Eastern press this week are perfect specimens of the rampant and rabid paranoid anti-Jewish incitement, coupled with avoidance of responsibility, in the Muslim world.

The more entertaining of the two items concerned the world-renowned Hogwarts student of magic, Harry Potter. Yes, that Harry Potter.

What, Islamic fundamentalists are not allowed to cash in on Pottermania?

Kayhahn, an Iranian publication closely affiliated with the ruling mullahs under "supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called the Harry Potter series "a billion-dollar Zionist project." The books have been nefariously designed, according to Iran's mullahs, to "disrupt young minds." Khamenei had criticized Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry for approving the distribution of the latest book in the Harry Potter series.

Fie! Our plans have been revealed! What gave it away? Was it naming the character in the Harry Potter series who wants to control the world "Voldemort," in homage to our esteemed leader "Olmert"?

Less amusing, but equally insightful, were statements made by Sudan's defense minister,
This is, you must admit, a bit pathological.
as reported by the Saudi Arabian daily Okaz, to the effect that Jews are the reason the mass-murder-genocide in Darfur is considered to be such a big, annoying deal.

(After all, is a genocidal race war by Arabs against Blacks in Africa really such a big deal, in comparison with the suffering of Arabs waiting in the hot sun at Jewish checkpoints in Judea and Samaria? But I digress.)

According to Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohammad Hussein, the Jews are wielding their control of the international media and financial markets on behalf of rebel elements inside Darfur, including by direct financial and political support. "The Darfur issue is being fueled by 24 Jewish organizations, who are making the largest amount of noise over the issue, and using the Holocaust in their campaigning," Hussein continued.

Mwuah-hah-hah-hah-hah! All those United Nations resolutions condemning Sudan! The deployment of UN "peacekeepers" in Sudan! The daily - daily! - editorials the world over condemning Sudan! The campus agitation against Sudan's very right to exist! Yes, we have been extraordinarily successful in the case of Sudan....

All kidding aside, this is, you must admit, a bit pathological. And yet, completely expected and reflective of the Muslim mindset when it comes to the Jews. Why? Maybe the Koran has the answer:

Koran 5:64 - "Every time [the Jews] kindle the fire of War, Allah doth extinguish it; But they ever strive to do mischief on earth."

Koran 5:13 - "You shall always discover treachery in [the Jews] excepting a few of them."