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Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills
Two universities, Tel Aviv and Haifa, now offer programs in Hasbara. Both feature Neal Lazarus, the man behind the fake gay flotilla video.
"Two Israeli universities, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, now offer programs in*Hasbara. The Haifa course is meant for Israeli students, the Tel Aviv one for foreign students. Both are supported by Israeli ministries: the Haifa one by the Ministry of Propaganda and Diaspora (Ministry of Hasbara, in Hebrew) and the Tel Aviv program by the Foreign Ministry.The Haifa program is public and can be viewed here (Hebrew.) It has also been*covered*by the Canadian Jewish News. Its called Ambassadors in the Net, and its stated purpose is to prepare students for online Hasbara. Among other issues, the students (the university proudly said it selected an elite of 30 students from many applicants) will practice debating with anti-Israeli activists, and will try their hands at PR and at editing Wikipedia. Students who finish the course will win the so-called prized ambassador in the net diploma. The chair of the program is Dr. Eli Avraham. He refused to talk to me and referred me to the universitys spokesman a somewhat surprising position, coming from someone who purports to teach others on Hasbara.The Tel Aviv program seems more secret. I did not find any publications about it, and was only informed of its existence by a source. The plan is called Ambassador Club, is intended for foreign students presumably Jewish and consists of seven meetings. All of those meetings, aside from one with Dr. Khalil Shikaki (a well-known Palestinian pollster) are with right-wing and Hasbara people. There are no leftist guests. The Ambassador club plan will grant academic points to students who attend all seven meetings. It is also supported by Stand with UsThirdly, governmental involvement.
The two universities, starved after years of neo-liberalism, have quietly acquiesced to becoming propaganda arms of the government. In this, they have betrayed their mission. A university is not supposed to sing the praises of its own society; it is supposed to study it and criticize it. Furthermore, when you lie with dogs, dont act surprised when you wake up with fleas: when TAU collaborates with Stand With Us, when it bestows its academic halo over professional fabricators like Lazarus, it invites international boycott. When it approves the teachings of the settler Itamar Marcus, it can no longer say it has no part in the occupation. When it spreads its aegis over colonels Leibovich and Eizen, it can no longer claim it is not a part of Israels military-media complex."
Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills | +972 Magazine
For this, you get academic credits in Israel.
Only in Israel do we such contributions to civilization as this.
What a load of bullshit.
In American and European universities students spread to other students all bunch of lies collected in what they called "The apartheid week" or whatever other nonsense.
universities all over the world become a base for political ideologies.
That is nothing new.
In fact the university of Haifa encourages students to try and free political prisoners, something which is punishable in jail.
Netanyahu?s Office recruiting students to wage online hasbara battles | The Ugly TruthThe Prime Minister’s Office is planning to form, in collaboration with the National Union of Israeli Students, “covert units” within Israel’s seven universities that will engage in online public diplomacy (hasbara).
The students participating in the project, who would post on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter on Israel’s behalf, will be part of the public diplomacy arm of the PMO, but would not identify themselves as official government representatives.
About a week ago, the outgoing deputy-director general of the Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Ministry, Daniel Seaman, sent a document to the government tender committee seeking to exempt the national student union from being chosen as the partner in the project through a public bidding process.
The PMO is looking to invest close to NIS 3 million to recruit, organize and fund the activities of hundreds of university students, as part of the country’s public diplomacy effort.
The Public Diplomacy Ministry is being closed and its staff are being integrated into the national public diplomacy unit in the Prime Minister’s Office. Seaman, who previously served as head of the Government Press Office and also ran as a candidate in the Likud party primaries, is expected to assume a new position shortly – that of head of an office with the very official sounding name of “the interactive media unit.” In practice, this is the entity that is expected to coordinate the public diplomacy efforts of the Prime Minister’s Office on the Internet and social networks.
Seaman informed the public tender committee that the Prime Minister’s Office was interested in having the student union recruit up to 550 students with knowledge of foreign languages from Israel’s seven universities. The student union is to publicize the project among tens of thousands of students and be responsible for the screening process, which will include submission of resumes, submitting answers to questionnaires, providing translation samples and participating in individual interviews. It is also the student union that is to provide computers and work space for a project headquarters on each campus.
Seaman informed the committee that the diplomacy units at each university would take direction from staff at the Prime Minister’s Office, but its public face would be one of an independent student entity. “The entire idea of the setup is based on activity of students and by students,” Seaman wrote to the committee. “The idea requires that the state’s role not be highlighted and therefore it is necessary to insist on major involvement by the students themselves without any political link [or] affiliation.”
It is apparent from Seaman’s document that a diplomacy group will be set up at each university and structured in a semi-military fashion. The head of the unit will be a student “senior coordinator,” who will receive a full scholarship from the Prime Minister’s Office. Working under the senior coordinator will be three other student coordinators, each of whom will head one of three desks, responsible for languages, graphics and research. These coordinators will get smaller scholarships. A group of student activists, who will receive nominal student stipends, will work under each coordinator. The Prime Minister’s Office will fund a total of NIS 2.78 million in scholarships for the program in the upcoming academic year.
“In light of the success in the battle for awareness during the Pillar of Defense Operation [the Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip in November of last year] and the experience gained in activating a large number of situation rooms on university campuses and work with students in general, it was decided to establish a permanent structure of activity on the Internet through the students at academic institutions in the country,” Seaman wrote. “The students are an organized population that is familiar with, and active on, the Internet on an ongoing basis, trained in use of the field, [who] live and speak the language of the [medium].”
The Prime Minister’s Office said in response that the project is designed to strengthen Israel’s public diplomacy and adapt it to changes in how information is being consumed. “The national public diplomacy unit in the Prime Minister’s Office places an emphasis on social network activity,” the office stated. “As part of this, a new pro-Israel public diplomacy infrastructure of students on Israeli campuses is being established that will assist in advancing and disseminating content on the social networks, particularly to international audiences.”
Sources in the Prime Minister’s Office said the main subjects that the campus-based units will deal with are diplomatic- and security-related issues, efforts to combat the boycott of Israel and anti-Semitism and the delegitimization of Israel. The students will emphasize Israel’s democratic values, freedom of religion, pluralism and “other subjects that give expression to the Israeli government’s public diplomacy policy.” The Prime Minister’s Office added that similar efforts with students were successful in recent years. “This model significantly advances Israel’s public diplomacy capabilities so that concurrent with messages conveyed by the country’s official spokespeople, content will also be conveyed that has been developed and disseminated by the students that is adapted to social media.”
“We believe that this involves an essential tool to strengthen Israeli public diplomacy and addresses the major importance that we attach to advancing public diplomacy of the State of Israel on the social networks.”
Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills
Two universities, Tel Aviv and Haifa, now offer programs in Hasbara. Both feature Neal Lazarus, the man behind the fake gay flotilla video.
"Two Israeli universities, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, now offer programs in*Hasbara. The Haifa course is meant for Israeli students, the Tel Aviv one for foreign students. Both are supported by Israeli ministries: the Haifa one by the Ministry of Propaganda and Diaspora (Ministry of Hasbara, in Hebrew) and the Tel Aviv program by the Foreign Ministry.The Haifa program is public and can be viewed here (Hebrew.) It has also been*covered*by the Canadian Jewish News. Its called Ambassadors in the Net, and its stated purpose is to prepare students for online Hasbara. Among other issues, the students (the university proudly said it selected an elite of 30 students from many applicants) will practice debating with anti-Israeli activists, and will try their hands at PR and at editing Wikipedia. Students who finish the course will win the so-called prized ambassador in the net diploma. The chair of the program is Dr. Eli Avraham. He refused to talk to me and referred me to the universitys spokesman a somewhat surprising position, coming from someone who purports to teach others on Hasbara.The Tel Aviv program seems more secret. I did not find any publications about it, and was only informed of its existence by a source. The plan is called Ambassador Club, is intended for foreign students presumably Jewish and consists of seven meetings. All of those meetings, aside from one with Dr. Khalil Shikaki (a well-known Palestinian pollster) are with right-wing and Hasbara people. There are no leftist guests. The Ambassador club plan will grant academic points to students who attend all seven meetings. It is also supported by Stand with UsThirdly, governmental involvement.
The two universities, starved after years of neo-liberalism, have quietly acquiesced to becoming propaganda arms of the government. In this, they have betrayed their mission. A university is not supposed to sing the praises of its own society; it is supposed to study it and criticize it. Furthermore, when you lie with dogs, dont act surprised when you wake up with fleas: when TAU collaborates with Stand With Us, when it bestows its academic halo over professional fabricators like Lazarus, it invites international boycott. When it approves the teachings of the settler Itamar Marcus, it can no longer say it has no part in the occupation. When it spreads its aegis over colonels Leibovich and Eizen, it can no longer claim it is not a part of Israels military-media complex."
Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills | +972 Magazine
For this, you get academic credits in Israel.
Only in Israel do we such contributions to civilization as this.
What a load of bullshit.
In American and European universities students spread to other students all bunch of lies collected in what they called "The apartheid week" or whatever other nonsense.
universities all over the world become a base for political ideologies.
That is nothing new.
In fact the university of Haifa encourages students to try and free political prisoners, something which is punishable in jail.
I expect your government pays you to post Hasbara here.
It has been reported Israels government does that too.
I do not expect European governments pay students to post Zionist Hasbara on internet discussion boards or give them college credits for learning about Zionist Hasbara.
Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills
Two universities, Tel Aviv and Haifa, now offer programs in Hasbara. Both feature Neal Lazarus, the man behind the fake gay flotilla video.
"Two Israeli universities, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, now offer programs in*Hasbara. The Haifa course is meant for Israeli students, the Tel Aviv one for foreign students. Both are supported by Israeli ministries: the Haifa one by the Ministry of Propaganda and Diaspora (Ministry of Hasbara, in Hebrew) and the Tel Aviv program by the Foreign Ministry.The Haifa program is public and can be viewed here (Hebrew.) It has also been*covered*by the Canadian Jewish News. Its called Ambassadors in the Net, and its stated purpose is to prepare students for online Hasbara. Among other issues, the students (the university proudly said it selected an elite of 30 students from many applicants) will practice debating with anti-Israeli activists, and will try their hands at PR and at editing Wikipedia. Students who finish the course will win the so-called prized ambassador in the net diploma. The chair of the program is Dr. Eli Avraham. He refused to talk to me and referred me to the universitys spokesman a somewhat surprising position, coming from someone who purports to teach others on Hasbara.The Tel Aviv program seems more secret. I did not find any publications about it, and was only informed of its existence by a source. The plan is called Ambassador Club, is intended for foreign students presumably Jewish and consists of seven meetings. All of those meetings, aside from one with Dr. Khalil Shikaki (a well-known Palestinian pollster) are with right-wing and Hasbara people. There are no leftist guests. The Ambassador club plan will grant academic points to students who attend all seven meetings. It is also supported by Stand with UsThirdly, governmental involvement.
The two universities, starved after years of neo-liberalism, have quietly acquiesced to becoming propaganda arms of the government. In this, they have betrayed their mission. A university is not supposed to sing the praises of its own society; it is supposed to study it and criticize it. Furthermore, when you lie with dogs, dont act surprised when you wake up with fleas: when TAU collaborates with Stand With Us, when it bestows its academic halo over professional fabricators like Lazarus, it invites international boycott. When it approves the teachings of the settler Itamar Marcus, it can no longer say it has no part in the occupation. When it spreads its aegis over colonels Leibovich and Eizen, it can no longer claim it is not a part of Israels military-media complex."
Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills | +972 Magazine
For this, you get academic credits in Israel.
Only in Israel do we such contributions to civilization as this.
What a load of bullshit.
In American and European universities students spread to other students all bunch of lies collected in what they called "The apartheid week" or whatever other nonsense.
universities all over the world become a base for political ideologies.
That is nothing new.
In fact the university of Haifa encourages students to try and free political prisoners, something which is punishable in jail.
I expect your government pays you to post Hasbara here.
It has been reported Israels government does that too.
I do not expect European governments pay students to post Zionist Hasbara on internet discussion boards or give them college credits for learning about Zionist Hasbara.
What a load of bullshit.
In American and European universities students spread to other students all bunch of lies collected in what they called "The apartheid week" or whatever other nonsense.
universities all over the world become a base for political ideologies.
That is nothing new.
In fact the university of Haifa encourages students to try and free political prisoners, something which is punishable in jail.
I expect your government pays you to post Hasbara here.
It has been reported Israels government does that too.
I do not expect European governments pay students to post Zionist Hasbara on internet discussion boards or give them college credits for learning about Zionist Hasbara.
If I was getting payed, I would have spoken my mind in places that matter, not message boards.
Since I am not, I have to settle with try and reason with idiots.
So true, Lipush. At least most of the posters here get out of their house unlike Frau Sherri who runs around the Internet bashing Israel all day long. Hmm, I wonder if some of the mosques in Southern California send some monthly stipend to her to post her nonsense and to pay for a cleaning lady since it looks like she has to have one after spending all that time on her computer day in and day out around the clock. So she can believe all she wants that pro Israel posters are being paid, but on the other hand, we can believe that she is the one being paid.
What a load of bullshit.
In American and European universities students spread to other students all bunch of lies collected in what they called "The apartheid week" or whatever other nonsense.
universities all over the world become a base for political ideologies.
That is nothing new.
In fact the university of Haifa encourages students to try and free political prisoners, something which is punishable in jail.
I expect your government pays you to post Hasbara here.
It has been reported Israels government does that too.
I do not expect European governments pay students to post Zionist Hasbara on internet discussion boards or give them college credits for learning about Zionist Hasbara.
If I was getting payed, I would have spoken my mind in places that matter, not message boards.
Since I am not, I have to settle with try and reason with idiots.
