Another Israel Prize winner who Despises Israel

The Israel Prize generally goes to the most anti-Israel or anti-Semitic professor that the leftists on the prize award committee can identify.

And this year was no exception. My guess is Iran's Ahmadinejad and the folks in the photo to right should get it next year.

The recipient this year was Professor Yehuda "Judd" Neeman, from the TV and Film department at Tel Aviv University. Neeman is one of the most open haters of Israel in Israeli academia, and that is saying a lot. For an expose on him, go to here.

There are layers upon layer of irony in all this. The word "Neeman" means loyal in Hebrew, while Comrade Judd's loyalty is clearly to the Palestinians seeking Israel's annihilation. He has devoted his career as a film professor to destroying any loyalty people may feel towards Israel.

If you think that is an overstatement, consider an Op-Ed article carried by YNET recently, published on Holocaust Memorial Day, crayoned by Comrade Judd. (In Hebrew, it can be read here)

His article is entitled "Nationalism is the Religion of Murderers." It is entirely an indictment of Israeli young people who agree to serve in the army to prevent the Arabs from carrying out a second genocide of Jews.

In the article, he pretends to be showing compassion for young people who undergo tough things while serving in the military. His point is that brutal totalitarianism subordinates the bodies of young people to the state, and he makes it clear he considers Israeli patriotism or nationalism to be right up there with Stalinism and Nazism. He then cynically mentions that in Judaism and Islam the circumcision is supposed to mark the body in a way that reminds young people that their body belongs to the Creator and not to the state. All this is his preparation of the reader for his broadside against the Israeli state and educational system, which seek to motivate young people to serve their country and defend the civilians of their country from annihilation. He mocks soldiers who say about serving in the army, "It is work that has to be done." The Hebrew word for "work" is also a word for a religious ceremony (think of "Avoda Zara") and Neeman denounces such thinking as barbarous. He denounces patriotism as a new form of paganist barbarism. As a "religion of the murderers."

The article ends with a note that the contents are what Neeman was planning to speak at a ceremony for fallen soldiers to be held on Israel's Memorial Day for its slain soldiers the following week after it appeared on YNET. Try to imagine how parents who lost a son would react to Neeman's rant.