Ilan Pappe faces firing from Haifa U. by Ilan Pappe 7:08pm Sun May 12 '02 I have received today an invitation to stand for a trial in my university, the university of Haifa. The prosecution, represented by Haifa Dean's of humanities demands my expulsion from the university due to the positions I have taken on the Katz affair. print article Dear Friends, I have received today an invitation to stand for a trial in my university, the university of Haifa. The prosecution, represented by Haifa Dean's of humanities demands my expulsion from the university due to the positions I have taken on the Katz affair. It calls upon the court 'to judge Dr. Pappe on the offences he has committed and to use to the full the court's legal authority to expel him from the university". These offences are in a nutshell my past critique of the university's conduct in the Katz affair, the MA student who discovered the Tantura massacre in 1948 and was disqualified for that. The reason the university waited so long is that now the time is ripe in Israel for any act of silencing academic freedom. My intent to teach a course on the Nakbah next year and my support for boycott on Israel has led the university to the conclusion that I can only be stopped by expulsion. Judging by past procedures this is not a request, but already a verdict, given the position of the person in question in the university and the way things had been done in the past. The ostensible procedure of a 'fair trial' does not exist and hence I do not even intend to participate in a McCarthyist charade. I do not appeal to you for my own sake. I ask you at this stage before a final decision has been taken to voice your opinion in whatever form you can and to whatever stage you have access to, not in order to prevent my expulsion (in many ways in the present atmosphere in Israel it will come now, and if not now later on, as the Israeli academia has deiced almost unanimously to support the government and to help silence any criticism). I ask those who are willing to do so, to take this case as part of your overall appreciation of, and attitude to, the preset situation in Israel. This should shed light also on the debate whether or not to boycott Israeli academia. This is not, I stress, and an appeal for personal help - my situation is far better than that of my colleagues in the occupied territories living under the daily harassment and brutal abuses of the Israeli army. It is an opening gambit and many of colleagues, especially my Palestinian Israeli colleagues, can be next. A testimony to the tragic circumstances of my own university is that I know there is no use in distributing this letter on its internal web-site, as all of my colleagues in the past when it came to the crucial moment - for understandable reasons - felt they could do very little to help me, without risking their own position in the university. I know many of you have access to world media and can help to expose the already dismal picture and false pretense of Israel of being the 'only democracy in the Middle East'. Yours Ilan Pappe add your comments

For a joint action in defense of the democratic rights. by Socialist Workers League 11:43pm Sun May 12 '02 swl_p@hotmail,com print comment Dear Ilan Pappe. Your case only proves the absolute necessity to organize a public committee in defense of the democratic rights of all of us who oppose the criminal actions of this state. We have been raising this call for a united front committee in defense of our democratic rights for the last few months but so far of no avails. The right wing wants to silence all of us: University?s teachers, Journalists, Members of Parliament, Lawyers, rank and file left wing activists. This is indeed a witch-hunt in the best tradition of Joseph McCarty. This witch -hunt goes on in many countries.This is the capitalist response to the crisis of the imperialist system. As you many know we are part of an international tendency that has some real support among the masses in some countries. The only thing that will stop the right wing is a huge campaign in this country and around the world. Let us organize such a committee with the line: An injury to one is injury to all. You should set an example and be on this committee .It should include Amira Hass, Gidon Levi, Gidon Sperio, Tania Rinardt, Ahoron Shabti ,Jacob Katirel, members of Paliament and others left wing org. Like Abnai-a- Balad, Balad, Hadash, SOcialist strugle,The Muslims,ourselves. We should appeal to members of Parliament, trade unions and other mass organizations around the world. We should all hang together on this issue or they will hang us separately. In the name of Socialist Workers League Yossi Schwartz. add your comments

Humans Are Hunted Everywhere by x.y.z. 1:09am Mon May 13 '02 print comment It ia a time to look at ourselves in the broken mirror. They hunt us in every place in the world where Zionazis have Synagogues or Zionist organisations. It is not enough they sold people like us to Gestapo during the WW II. They break our lifes, our carriers, our businesses, our human honor. We are first. We are long-long before the killed Palestinians. They do it in a very intelligent way. Ilan Pappe is lucky, he can see their faces. Usually you go mad,you just do not understand what is happening to you, to your family. They play their dirty games behind your back. They kill us. Well, the same intelligent way of doing the old Judaic business... No fingerprints. Usually writers or singers who have an audience, physicians who may open eyes of their patients, successful businessmen who may sponsor a publication, a protest. No fingerprints. It is a real war. It is a pity you are sectarian. You would not help Baruch Spinoza or Israel Shahak because they have had no interest in the barbed wires of the glorious 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Likud bought Lenin's technology. Ilan Pappe is lucky. He has money to pay his house, his phone-fax-internet, his subscriptions, his books, his trips, his food... We need a non-sectarian kind of Human Front Help Offices in every big city in Europe and USA. The European action is the most urgent. We are at war not only in Jenin or Haifa. We must have material and financial backing or helped to open such businesses which shall be difficult to break. Some of us who are no more students but are able to do more than a big progressive student meeting need bodyguards or other help.I mean - real help, not words, not booklets.Some of us need to move with their families to another country. Some need possibility just to earn daily bread living without legal documents.Are you real?.. Answer. add your comments

Comunist scum by Jew 9:07am Mon May 13 '02 print comment Comunist scum ase same as nazies - thay are not human add your comments

The Ordinary Have Changed by x.y.z. 11:40am Mon May 13 '02 print comment The ordinary communists have changed last decennia. The USSR occupation polirics in the East European "settlments", the murder of ordinary Communist believers-egalitarians in the USSR prisons and concentration camps 1918 - 1986, the publishing of materials on the Party crimes have changed a lot. Yes, old generation of Communist functionaries has the blood of the believers-egalitarians on their hands but the young generation knows everything and has changed. They do not steal land and houses from peasants, they give it back. They understood that the real egalite is possible only in Wehrmacht or at the cemetery.If Jimmy Carter talks to Fidel ( whom I admire being non-Communist ) we may talk and work with the ordinary Communists also. By the way if not the ordinary Communists of the Red Army you and me and Peace Now would not be alive today. The Party officials who together with the Zionazis of 1930's betrayed German Communists and German Jews to Hitler are the scum. But any party is not the whole music. add your comments

This wouldn't surprise me by informed 12:15pm Mon May 13 '02 print comment Ilan Pappe did support Mr Katz's thesis over the massacre of the Palestinian village of Tantura. Katz thesis got suspended. A quick note about this thesis and the debate it generated in Israel goto http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4317005,00.html For more details about Ilan Pappe support of this thesis goto http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/119/pappe.html Shame that Ilan Pappe is having problems now . add your comments

Petition by E Montes 4:28pm Tue May 14 '02 print comment PLEASE SEND YOUR SIGNATURE TO: Ran HaCohen Petition in Support of Dr Ilan Pappe We the undersigned, members of the academic and related professions inside Israel and abroad, wish to express our dismay at the decision of Haifa University to issue an invitation to Dr Ilan Pappe, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, to stand for a trial, and roundly condemn the demand of the University Prosecutor, the Haifa University Dean of Humanities Prof Yossi Ben-Artzi, to expel Dr Pappe from the University on the grounds of, among other things, the positions he had taken on academic and other matters such as Dr Pappe's critique of the University's conduct regarding the MA dissertation by Teddy Katz on the Tantura massacre in 1948; his proposal to teach a course on the Palestinian Nakbah next year; and his support for boycott on Israel. We completely condemn the Haifa University for these blantant trangression against the professional principle of academic freedom, for this violation of the fundamental right of freedom of statement and publication, and for what looks like a politically motivated attempt to silence dissent voices. We demand that all measures begun by Haifa University with the view to prosecute Dr Ilan Pappe for his critical academic work and political advocacy be immediately cancelled, and that Dr Pappe, like all other academics and members of related professions, be granted the secury of academic freedom inside and outside Haifa University. Undersigned: Name (and title): ___________________ University(*)/Institution(*)/Profession: _______________ (*) Affiliation for identication purposes only. PLEASE SEND YOUR SIGNATURE TO: Ran HaCohen [End of Petition] add your comments

The Action A La May '68 Is Better by Captain Nemo 11:25pm Wed May 15 '02 print comment Shall my three university degrees help?.. Is my name enough?.. Or you need my fingerprints also?.. It is a time to calm ourselves, to seat together, to think what may be done for the funding of the Free Middle East University with the programs independent of the wishs of any crazy and racist State Criminals, especially those who are too much circumsised. The appeal to the ALL administrations of ALL universities of the whole world to help with funding may help a lot. I sign for Dr. Ilan Pappe. Bon chance, Collega! add your comments

That's just Great by Danie'l Keleti 7:03pm Sat May 18 '02 address: 8 B, Etsel Road, 76361 Rehovoth phone: 08-94-666-45 ostland@netvision.net.il print comment No, really. On one side here You've got someone, who calls the 1917th bloody revolution "glorious", but then claimes, that the likudh party is the continuation of lenin(!!), and on the other - someone who's apparently been proud - no less(!) - to identify himself as a member of the same monotheistic cult as yigal amir, eytam, benizry and cahana. And none of them, of course, is identifying by his/her own name. This all is beyond ridiculous - I suggest we shall call upon the people in the white clothes - preferrably Poma`zi - to go and heal these two from their obsessive madness and hallucinations. Yours, Danny. add your comments

Pappe is a communist liar by Truth 4:22pm Tue May 21 '02 print comment Pappe wrote this in the Egyptian media. The same media that prints blood libels of Jews and praising of Hitler every day. I quoted one paragraph of what Pappe said, then I respond to his lies. Here's what Pappe wrote. The media and other cultural institutions were also recruited to discourage discussion of the Nakbah and its relevance to the peace process, and it was in this atmospherethat I became involved in the Tantura Affair. This erupted after an MA student at my university, Haifa, exposed an hitherto unknown massacre, one of the largest yet known, carried out during the 1948 War by Israeli forces in the Palestinian village of Tantura. This student was taken to court in December 2000 accused of defamation, and later, in November 2001, he was expelled from the university for daring to add yet further evidence of Israel's responsibly for the Palestinian catastrophe. The court system, it transpired, thus willingly joined the denial process. What the hell is this communist talking about. Teddy Katz made up this massacre, to promote his anti Zionist propaganda. He said Israeli soldiers told him they committed a massacre, when he intervieved them. This was all a lie. Not one single Israeli soldier from the 48 war ever told Katz this. Katz own cassette recordings backed this up. What Katz did, he interviewed these soldiers in a way, where he tried to ask questions, as though there was a massacre. In court, Katz own lawyer said, Katz had lied about what he claimed in the article. Then Pappe keeps talking about ethnic cleasing. He leaves important points. It was the Arabs who wanted ethnic cleasing. On March 1 1944, the Palestinian leader, Hajj Amin Al Husseini who was in Cahoots with Hitler. Husseini said in a broadcast from Berlin: "Arabs Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor." After the 5 Arab Armies attacked Israel in 48, the Arab League Secretary General, Azzam Pasha said, "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the massacres of the Crusades". Hajj Amin Al Husseini stated, "I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!" The armies of lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq invaded the tiny new country with the declared intent of destroying it. Its well known, it was the surrounding Arab countries, that Told the Arab population to leave there Holmes. The Arab Armies requested and ordered, that the Arab population leave there holmes to clear the Area, so that the Arab armies could kill the Jews. According to a research report by the Arab-sponsored Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, the majority of the Arab refugees in 1948 were not expelled and "68%" left without seeing an Israeli soldier. How about some more Arab statements. Azzam Pasha regarding the 1 million Jews in the Arab countries. Assam in May 1948 said "There are over one million Jews in the Arab Lands. Their lives will be forfeit as well when we conquer the Jews. The Real ethnic cleasing happened which Pappe is silent on, when the Arabs kicked out 800,000 Jews from the Arab countries in 48. Israel took in every single of those 800,000 Jewish Refugees, while the Arabs with 22 countries, refuse to take in any of the Refugees they created, when they attacked Israel in 48. The reason the Arab countries dont take in these Refugees, is because they want to use them, for some kind of sick western media propangada. Did you know, that Hajj Amin Al Husseini dispatched a terrorist squad led by Hassan Ali Salameh to Israel during the second World War, with the object of poisoning Lake Kinneret and other water sources to kill all Israeli Jews? They were discovered by the British and prevented from carrying out their murderous Deed. his is well documented in the book "The quest for the Red Prince. Right now as we Speak, Israel has 20 percent of the actual British Mandate borders of 1917. The Arabs have 80 percent. Jordan was part of the British Mandate. The British created Jordan and named the country after the Jordan River in 1922 Then Ilan talks about ethnic cleasing of today. Has he seen the Palestinians talking in Arabic. Faisal Husseini right before he died, said Oslo was a Trogan horse and that Israel wouldn't exist in 20 years and he said, there would be a Palestinian state the Jordan to the Mediterranean and no Israel. Arafat's speech in Sweden in 1996. Arafat's speech in front of 40 Arab diplomats in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 30,1996. Was titled "The Impending Collapse of Israel". "We will take over everything including all of Jerusalem," he declared repeatedly. Arafat's plan has two main components aimed to cause the Jews to abandon Israel. "Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living on the West Bank and in Jerusalem. Arafat explained that this will be the beginning of a pressure campaign resulting within a few years in Israel's ultimate destruction. "You understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian State. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion; Jews will not want to live among us Arabs!" Who wants genocide, i'll let you judge. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-120601holy.story Sheikh Muhammed Siyam, a Hamas military leader said this. "I've been told to restrict or restrain what I say. I hope no one is recording me or taking any pictures, as none are allowed, because I'm going to speak the truth to you," Siyam reportedly said at the conference. "It's simple. Finish off the Israelis. Kill them all! Exterminate them! No peace ever! Do not bother to talk politics." add your comments

Pappe by Doug 10:32pm Tue May 21 '02 print comment Its amazing, Pappe puts his anti Israel retoric in this Egyptian Racist paper. Here's the examples. From Memri.com which documents the racist Arab media. "You cannot describe the Israeli annihilation war directed against the Palestinian people, except for saying that it is a new Nazi wave, which brings back the consequences of the human oppression's worst pictures invented by Hitler and his regime's heads, and directed towards the Europeans, in general, and towards the Jews (what a difference) in particular". "...the new phenomenon of Nazism was revealed by the Israeli racist state ." "... Moreover, this racist army committed collective execution crimes, imitating through it the famous Nazi actions. They added to that the assembling of inhabitants in public squares after warning them about demolishing houses with their inhabitants, if they stay there. They used known Nazi techniques ." "... The war criminal, Sharon, stands as Hitler stood in front of the Nazi Germany, scorning all the international institutions " - Al-Ahram, Egyptian government daily, April 16, 2002, by As-Sayyid Yassin, article entitled, "What is Behind the New Nazism" "It is not a Jewish demand to merely support Sharon, but to ignore his horrible massacres, which exceeded the Nazism massacres, as well." "Why are they (the Jews) hated by all the people which hosted them, such as Iraq and Egypt thousands years ago, and Germany, Spain, France and the UK, up to the days they gained of power over the capital and the press, in order to rewrite the history?" - Al-Riyadh, Saudi government daily, April 15, 2002, by Turki 'Abdallah as-Sudayri, article entitled "All of History is against Them" "Nobody is allowed to sleep, when there is a Nazi - Zionist - state and society - making massacre celebrations . There is a collective murderer he is killing freely everyone who defends his land, life, freedom and respect " - Al-Ahram, Egyptian government daily, by Dr. Muhammad as-Sayyid Sa'id, article entitled "Nobody is allowed to sleep after Jenin" "The 21st century's Hitler, Ariel Sharon, succeeded in exceeding over all the history's sanguinaries" - Al-Ahram, Egyptian government daily, April 13, 2002, by Ibrahim Nafi', article entitled "Facts" "... as long as Israel commits new burnings, in the new era of 'Hitleric' Zionism." - Al-Riyadh, Saudi government daily, April 11, 2002, article entitled "The Most Important Battle Between Us and Israel" "... the mentality of the Zionist entity's leader, which is afflicted with the pride disease, as Hitler." Al-Riyadh, Saudi government daily, April 7, 2002, by Muhammad Rida Nasrallah, "An Ox Running Wild without Bridle" "This is the Israeli emperor. The ruler of the sole democratic country in the Middle East brings back the Nazi regime's days". "Israel's Hitler, who promised his people security " "Whenever the murderer Sharon kills a Palestinian pure human being, the Palestinian response is faster than what he imagines " Al-Ahram, Egyptian government daily, April 7, 2002, by Ihsan Baker, article entitled "Yasser Family - Patience" "[Israel is] killing, plundering and destroying through a barbaric Hitlerism." - Al-Ahram, Egyptian government daily, April 7, 2002, by Anis Masur, article entitled "Attitudes" add your comments

Arabs were in Cahoots with Hitler by Avi 10:37pm Tue May 21 '02 print comment Doug, You wonder what these Arabs are talking about. They were genocidal partners of Hitler in WW2. Here's 7 great websites that talk about the Arab alliance to Hitler in WW2. This site documents the genocidal deals Hajj Amin Al Husseini made with Hitler. http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/mufti4.htm Alois Brunner, the genocidal Nazi who deported 150,000 Jews to there deaths in WW2, has been in Syria in for the last 40 years. Check out this site. http://www.tabloid.net/1998/07/17/lastnazi_980717.html Nasser let in hundreds of Nazis in Egypt after WW2 http://www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/nazis_postwar_egypt.htm Check out this site, Hajj Amin Al Husseini and his alliance to Hitler http://www.flamemag.dircon.co.uk/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm Site documenting Palestinians alliance to Hiter in WW2 http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/hanjar.html Site documenting Husseini with SS Nazis in Bosnia in WW2. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8ff1c12efe.htm IslamoNazis The Arab Muslim Nazi connection http://cdn-friends-icej.ca/medigest/may00/arabnazi.html PPhoto 1: A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of the Waffen SS which he personally recruited for Hitler add your comments

Dear Professor Pappe, by BlackPope 5:54pm Wed Jun 19 '02 address: A cave-hideout someplace in Europe BlackPope@opera.com print comment I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you for the shining example your principalled, even heroic Stand in defence of Academic Freedom, represents for us all. I strongly support your call for boycott/sanctions in the same spirit as it was so effectively used against Apartheid-SA - not in order to damage that Nation or it's inhabitants, but to prevent senseless and widespread bloodshed and speed the instauration of a just form of Government. All of these reasons apply very urgently to Israel/Palestine today. This extreme form of blatant ideology-driven censorship of your opinions, which endangers similar rights worldwide, must be aggressively opposed and overthrown. Please inform me of how you think I might best be able to help achieve these very necessary goals. Schalom, BlackPope add your comments

God Bless dr. pape by LILAk 10:48am Mon Jun 24 '02 print comment israel is the brainchild of Hitler. His worst example was followd by early zionists who repeated his worst nazi examples to annex a land of a civilian population. The innocent never had a clue of the horrifying events that would follow them for the next fifty some years like a shadow add your comments