University Center at Ariel

College in Ariel, West Bank (Wikimedia CC BY SA 3.0)

Israeli minister aptly compares Ariel settlement with Falklands

Last Tuesday, it became official: the IDF (following approval from Defense Minister Barak) recognized the academic center in the settlement of Ariel as a full-fledged university. International condemnation soon followed. A UK minister, for instance, expressed disappointment regarding Israel’s decision, and labeled it an obstacle to peace. In response, Israeli Education Minister Gideon Saar (Likud)…

By Roi Maor December 29, 2012

Ariel University Center of Samaria (By he:User:מיכאלי at he.wikipedia [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons)

Institutionalizing occupation: the ‘University’ of Ariel

In the U.S. slavery was an accepted, normal institution for the first 140 years of the country’s existence. While American universities are now trying to come to terms with their historical corroboration with slavery, Israel is just beginning to institutionalize its system of oppression through accreditation of the Ariel settlement college. By Louis Frankenthaler Universities are meant…

By +972 Magazine July 26, 2012

IDF soldiers visiting Auschwitz (Photo: Whistling in the Dark/flickr)

Failure of death camp tours for IDF officers – a success?

For the past two decades or so, Israel has been on a feverish mission to send young people – all of them, if possible – to visit the death camps of Poland, to cement the notion that the Holocaust is the primary basis for Israel’s existence. I find this inherently problematic. It is even more…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 29, 2012

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