Slippery Slope

The Minister of Education, Gideon Saar, plans to set-up a special committee to determine whether to allow the opening of new Political Science departments in universities.

(Hebrew – nrg)

The University of Haifa removed the Arabic wording from its official logo.

(Hebrew - Haaretz)

The Ben Gurion University Student Association has canceled the screening of the movie “Bil’in Habibti” in its cinema, claiming the movie is political.

(Hebrew)

The management of the Technion’s gym decided to designate specific hours in which men could use the facility separately, following a request of the Students’ Union.

(Hebrew)

In a Jerusalem Hebrew University sports facility, women were asked to leave and stay outside, while men were swimming in the pool. On the other hand, while there are women only in the pool, men are allowed to go in.

(Hebrew)

A senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, admitted during a talk with students that lecturers with a leftist outlook do not get advancement or tenure at the university.

(Hebrew)

Prof. Galia Golan, a member of the committee to examine the Department of Politics and Government at the Ben-Gurion University, says that the report was biased by political considerations. The committee criticized the curriculum of the courses, the quality of the research, and the way that lecturers express their political views in the class.

(Hebrew)

Council for Higher Education adopted a report by an international committee which recommended to consider closing the Department of Politics and Government of the Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheba, if there will be no changes to the content of academic research and the staff until the coming April.

(Hebrew)