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'Bedouin president will turn college into Islamic school'
Tamar Trabelsi-Hadad
Published: 20.06.12, 10:55
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1. Good!
(06.20.12)
Jews have no business learning in the same school as goyim.
2. ACHVA
Ethan Schwartz ,   Eilat, Israel   (06.20.12)
Means Brotherhood
3. @1, yes, it's good.
Naftush ,   Israel   (06.20.12)
It's a college, not a yeshiva, and Jews who can't stomach the presence of "goyim" on the same campus probably haven't got much business anywhere.
4. Isn't being 'politically correct' gone too far?
Big bad Jew ,   United States   (06.20.12)
would a Jew ever be appointed to an arabs university? I don't think so. America experimented with obama and we see the horrid results. Can Israel afford such folly?
5. Unbelievable!!!
Jake Stone ,   USA   (06.20.12)
The liberals' are going to destroy Israel! The Muslims are the sworn enemy of Israel, and they're still allowed to prosper and to use that freedom to undermine the same democracy that protects them. This is so asinine and stupid! Israel needs to clean-out these colleges of all liberal (and their Muslim buddies) subversives. Political correctness will destroy you...if you let it; it must be stopped by throwing-out all these traitorous leaches!
6. Achva #4 & #5
Ralph ,   Rishon Le Zion   (06.20.12)
Why don't you stop sitting in your armchairs in the US and interfere with your comments on the internal affairs of Israel. If you are so worried, do like many of your countrymen/women have done, and come on aliya, then you will have the right to tell us what to do.
7. and what happens to honouring
Julie ,   Israel   (06.20.12)
Yom Hatzmaot, Shoah, singing Hatikvah etc. under this Moslem? We never learn.
8. כל הכבוד we are on the right track
Yossef   (06.20.12)
9. #5 First be israeli and then talk
Yossef   (06.20.12)
10. israel turned to europe before enlightment
Michael   (06.20.12)
german and russian students also mocked about jewish professors...claiming the university turning jewish and so on...now this happens in israel...strange world
11. #2 ACHVA means brotherhood BETWEEN JEWS ONLY
(06.20.12)
12. Hey Jake
Ethan Schwartz ,   Eilat, Israel   (06.20.12)
I guess one of our problems is we don't like your solution of BECOMING our enemy.
13. #6,WHY DONT YOU WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL
....DACON9   (06.20.12)
#6,WHY DONT YOU WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL make the right decisions already and stop playing verbal tennis with Jews outside who still think like Jews. Your only claim is you live there but you act like the donkeys who live there also
14. Good opportunity
Zeev ,   TA   (06.20.12)
al-Krenawi has been given a good opportunity to show that Arabs and Bedouins are integrated in Israeli society. Time will tell if he uses the chance to promote harmony or disagreement. Hopefully he'll remember that he lives in Israel and should abide by Israeli conventions and laws.
15. Academic Freedom
Benjamin Kahane ,   Meitar   (06.20.12)
The role of an academic institution is not to provide love for a land, tikvas, and the army, but to instill knowledge, humanism, and free thinking. Only in the former Communist Eastern Europe, or Faschist Germany/Italy, and yes, Gaza, you had/have universities instilling nationalist ideas.
16. #4 this man isnt a president, he is
arlene ,   israel   (06.20.12)
head of a college. And yes you guys did make a big mistake with Obama as we seemed to have with our PM, but if this Prof puts a foot out of place he can be fired. Any non jew has to really prove him/herself and dont think all are like the sewer rats Tibi and Zoabi....Zonabi! Another thing, and I am NOT a lefty, the bedouin do serve in our IDF and they are best scouts, a dangerous job.
17. #2 - Achva and Kol Israel HaKhaverim
Marian Paroo ,   Tel Aviv   (06.20.12)
...do you remember the case some years ago where an ultraorthox synagogue in Bavli tried to stop a reform synagogue from setting up a kindergarten?
18. #5,#7,#11--odd numbers (pun intended)
Naftush ,   Israel   (06.20.12)
Frightened American Jews who hide behind a mask of truculence... Muslims out! Bedouin out! Jews who don't think just like me out! Purge them all... Otherwise Israel will die! Maybe it already died! By the way, Israeli college students don't look to the school's president to teach them about military service because they've already done it.
19. This is NOT Democracy! Islam doesn't believe in Equal Rights
Linda Rivera ,   New York, USA   (06.20.12)
Under Islamic sharia law, defenseless non-Muslims have NO human rights and women are regarded and treated as inferior beings. In Pakistan and Bangladesh, the suffering and very severe persecution of Hindus, Christians and Sikhs is so severe that every non-Muslim needs to be rescued out. Instead, cruel UN and Western countries are importing millions of Muslims.
20. Are Israelis being Forced to pay for the Islamic School or
Linda Rivera ,   New York, USA   (06.20.12)
is the funding coming from Saudi Arabia?
21. I teach at Achva
Leonie Lachmish ,   Israel   (06.20.12)
Achva does indeed mean brotherhood and Jewish and Moslem students (aswell as Jewish and Moslem lecturers) at the College share peacefully the same campus just as Christian and Jewish students share the same campuses abroad. Unfortunately, such normality is not reported in the press because it is just that : normality; normal everyday life. Israel, contrary to the claims of Israel-haters, is not an apartheid state and just as minority groups can aspire to reach the top in western democracies, so can they do so in Israel. I would say that "anonymous" objectors who might not even exist, shouldn't be quoted and that anonymous hearsay shouldn't be what tilts the headline to put out a false negativity.
22. #9
ralph ,   rishon le zion   (06.20.12)
It is good to know how much stupidity you can write in one sentence. I am an Israeli Citizen and have been since 1968 (That's right 44 years). Also one of my children was education at Achva, so "know-it-all" I know exactly what I'm talking about.
23. #22 ralph from RLZ : Are you Jake Stone from USA ???
Yossef   (06.20.12)
24. #4 big, #5 jake, #20 linda
solomon ,   bklyn   (06.20.12)
You are doing what you accuse others of doing: a knee-jerk reaction to what you think someone is as opposed to what he really is. This results in calling it an Islamic school, which it is not.
25. #14 zeev, #16 arlene, #21 leonie - excellent posts
solomon ,   bklyn   (06.20.12)
It’s good to see people without knee-jerk reactions.
26. #15 benjamin (re: #18)
solomon ,   bklyn   (06.20.12)
There is nothing wrong with instilling love for the land. Isn’t that why Jews returned to Israel/Zion in the first place? And post #18 has an excellent point: the students have already completed army service.
27. To all the complainers' of #5!
Jake Stone ,   USA   (06.21.12)
I really must have touched a nerve--good! Your irritation proves I'm right!
28. #20 it is not a Islamic school
Dorothy Friend ,   TEl Aviv   (06.21.12)
.. but we are being forced to pay for Yeshivot. :(
29. #27 jake - wrong on all counts
solomon ,   bklyn   (06.21.12)
Your sophomoric statement proves you are wrong. It smacks of cursing at someone and running away, knowing you are wrong but afraid to give a chance for rebuttal. You only prove how much you are afraid of the truth.
30. to #27
not irritated by you   (06.21.12)
Just sad that you are using a stereotypical generalization about an individual when you don't know him. Jews are so often on the receiving side of that kind of treatment so we know how unfair and upsetting it is and how wrong racism is.
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