ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Front Page
14February2011 11:21amEST
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Western universities are not the only centers of tenured academic extremism. In Israel the most notorious den of Marxist faculty members and radical tenured 
leftists is Tel Aviv University. Curiously, the radicals there spend a lot of their time and energies bashing one another for not being radical enough.
The leading combatant now attacking other tenured radicals is Yoav Peled [1], a professor of political science at Tel Aviv University, an unreformed Stalinist [2]. His sidekick is Horit Herman Peled, evidently his wife, and in any case someone who teaches art at Oranim College, where her specialty is to design art exhibits and poems that “prove” Israel is a colonialist entity guilty of ethnic cleansing.
Peled is fairly well known [3] for his political extremism. When his own niece was murdered on an Israeli bus by a Palestinian suicide bomber, Peled and his sister, the victim’s mother [4] Nurit Peled Elhanan [5] (who is a professor at the Hebrew University [6]), invited a spokesman from the PLO to speak at the funeral [7] and to denounce Israel for being responsible for the death of the girl. (read full report)
