It may shock you to learn that out-of-touch, radicalized academics don’t just attack Israel from the outside. Israel has its own fair share of well-accredited crazies inside the country.
Some examples include a Hebrew University researcher attributing the lack of sexual abuse of Palestinians by IDF soldiers to the latter not seeing Palestinians as human enough to abuse, and a professor at Bar-Ilan University who claimed that blood libels—the accusation that Jews used Christian blood for rituals, used as a pretext to murder thousands of Jews—were in fact true. But Hebrew University’s ex-Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian might take the cake.
With the confidence and moral righteousness of a gender studies professor, she declared that Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics data are accurate and Israeli data are false—without evidence; claimed that children in East Jerusalem are murdered as part of a program to test new weapons, based on conversations with a few children she met on the street; and repeatedly insisted on interviewing terrorists for “research.”
Why her research always arrives at the same conclusion—that the terrorists are the real victims—I’m not sure.
