The legislation, currently being debated in the Knesset, would give a government-appointed committee the power to order the firing of academic staff that it decides have expressed “support for terror”. If the universities refuse, their funding would be cut.
One of the academics targeted, Anat Matar from the philosophy department at Tel Aviv University, said the role of students in drafting and promoting a law to silence their lecturers was particularly disturbing.
“Whether or not it passes, a significant damage has already been done,” she said. “The mere fact that it is supported by the national student union and by many local student unions, and that there is hardly any protest among students against, it manifests another step down the ladder towards full-blown fascism.”
Israel’s descent into fascism for Israelis -it always was fascist to Palestinians- is actually a good thing. Maybe liberals can stop with “it is the only democracy in the Middle East”, which was never true.
I want to see the Israeli right go after everyone who isn’t totally fash. Accelerationism is exactly what Israel needs. It is not a normal country and shouldn’t pretend to be. Normal people who live there should either leave or become fascist themselves.
White people call it the only democracy because they do not consider brown people human.
It is the same reason that freak about about “tank man” who never got run over, but don’t care about the actual civilians getting run over by Israeli tanks with their blessing and tax dollars
Media is controlled by people, so I’m not surprised that AI is used to create a ‘voice of the people’ online. There’s a joke on Chinese internet to describe Zionists: After Germany was defeated, the United States got Germany’s talent, the Soviet Union got Germany’s land, and the Zionists came and took Nazi ideology.