The Jihad Sheikh with his minions at the University of Haifa

Well, things were already looking disgraceful and embarrassing enough for the University of Haifa, thanks to the approval of the heads of the university to allow the Jihad Sheikh, Raed Salah, the head of the Islamofascist movement among Israeli Moslems, to speak on campus this past week. The Jihad Sheikh there called for Arab students to become “shaheed martyrs,” code for suicide bombers. Moreover, the university had also given official instructions to the guards present to prevent Jewish students from entering the lecture hall in which the Jihad Sheikh was speaking. The Jewish student protesters present described the behavior of the guards, following university instructions, as the conducting of a “selection” (the name for the separation out of Jews done by the Germans). But then the university got itself in even deeper when it issued a statement that denied altogether that the Jewish students had been barred from entering the lecture hall or that the university officials had given any such instructions to the guards. Here is the statement in Hebrew. It says explicitly that Jews were NOT barred from entering.

Except they were. The university is for all intents and purposes trying to cover up the disgrace of ordering that the lecture hall for the terrorist Salah be kept judenrein. Numerous media outfits, including those with leftist leanings, have confirmed that Jewish students were barred from entering. Eyewitness reports also confirm this. And the very same disingenuous statement by the university DENYING that Jewish students were barred from entering the hall then goes on to explain why it was necessary to keep them out: to avoid violence and confrontation inside the lecture hall. Of course violence and confrontation could also have been avoided by preventing the Jihad Sheikh from entering the campus in the first place and also by giving his student hosts the bum’s rush straight to the Gaza Strip. The university statement says that the university had no legal choice but to allow the Sheikh to address the Arab students on campus facilities. This is also a lie. Not only did the university have a choice, but – given the Sheikh’s call for terrorism and violence in his speech – the university had a legal OBLIGATION to bar him from campus and may have broken the law by allowing him to engage in incitement to violence in the campus.

But now, the most damning report of all appears in the Haifa weekly Zman Haifa June 19, 09, page 20. In its news report by its education reporter Orna Nirenfeld the weekly not only confirms that the guards were under university orders to prevent Jewish students from entering the lecture hall in which the Jihad Sheikh was calling for the murder of Jews, but the Jewish protesters near the hall were also assaulted and beaten by the guards in their efforts to keep the lecture hall judenrein. One student describes how women wearing headscarves and men with Arab-looking features were being waved through while anyone obviously Jewish was being stopped and some Jews were physically being pushed away from the entrance by over-zealous guards. Among the students violently beaten by the guards was Shlomo Variett, head of the “Lavi” student organization on campus.

The Jewish students barred from entering the hall held their own noisy protest against the Jihad Sheikh outside the hall, waving Israeli flags and singing Hatikva. One ultra anti-Israel professor at the University of Haifa, Micah Leshem of psychology, demanded that the University take disciplinary action against the JEWISH counter-protesters!!

Jewish student criminals against whom University of Haifa "academic" demands disciplinary action.

To whom can you complain?
University of Haifa:

President of the University of Haifa

Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev

University of Haifa

Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel

Tel: 972-4-8240101

Fax: 972-4-8240281

E-mail: abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il

Rector of the University of Haifa

Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi

University of Haifa

Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel

Tel: 972-4-8240405

Fax: 972-4-8342101

Email: yossib@univ.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