http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=6220
MY E-PAL STEVE PLAUT HAS BEEN MONITORING THE ROT IN ISRAEL’S ACADEMIA AND DENOUNCING THOSE TREASONOUS PROFESSORS FOR YEARS IN ADDITION TO HIS EXCELLENT COLUMNS AGAINST THE TWO STATE DISSOLUTION OF ISRAEL….RSK
http://isracampus.org.il/
Monitoring Israel’s Academic Fifth Column
Following anti-Israel Extremism on
the Israeli Campus
Professor Ziva Shamir, a high-ranking researcher of literature in Israel and abroad, recently published a sharply worded essay against “the political anarchy in academia” • She says that university faculties have become breeding grounds for lecturers with radical world views, and that they “harass students politically” • “The greats of Hebrew literature — Bialik and Alterman — have become a platform that staff members use to present their radical opinions,” says Shamir, “Hebrew literature was the dove that heralded Zionism. It must not become the raven that heralds its destruction.”
I first met Professor Ziva Shamir about 20 years ago through her seminal book, “The Vagrant Bard: Avant-Garde and Alterman’s Poetic Style,” a look at Nathan Alterman’s poetry through the lens of modernism. Since then, I have recommended that excellent book as an introduction for people who want to learn about the work of one of Israel’s greatest poets.
Shamir, who took her first steps into the world of literature research in the late 1960s, has written many books, mostly about Hayim Nahman Bialik and Alterman. Now she has published her latest work, “The Child Is the Father of the Man,” about Bialik’s long narrative poems for children. For 40 years, she taught in the Hebrew literature department at Tel Aviv University. After her retirement, she continued to teach at Kibbutzim College and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. She offers an uncommon perspective about the intellectual world in Israel.