"In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy" but they are "a central pillar of Israel's regime of oppression against Palestinians." Hebrew Uni is helping define targets. Tel Aviv Uni is developing arguments against human rights...

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Sharvit Baruch, a military leader now at lecturer and program leader at Tel Aviv Uni, defined Gaza police cadets as combatants instead of civilians since "potentially Hamas" for purposes of the 2008 massacre.

Another Tel Aviv Uni prof, "ethicist" Asa Kasher, teamed up with the Israeli military to estimate how many dead Palestinian civilians were worth it to save one Israeli, averaging 3.14. That would mean Palestinians are 1/3 human, less than the 3/5 of African American slaves.

Kasher seems to be quite the ethicist indeed, inventing new categories of unpersons, apologies, "third persons" to justify slaughtering Palestinian civilians.

The logical conclusion is hardly mysterious, but is Israeli policy: "As a result, they argue that it is in fact immoral for Israel to endanger its own soldiers in order to safeguard the lives of Palestinian civilians."

According to Maya Wind, researchers at Hebrew University are helping the military identify "targets" in Gaza.

Maya Wind explains that Hebrew Uni researchers are collaborating with Israeli military to create "target banks" in Gaza. This level of complicity is staggering, and our own unis have institutional links with them.

Back in October already, I said that the powers that be were trying something out in Gaza that they wanted to roll out to the rest of the world. I didn't realise academic colleagues were at the forefront of the legal and ethical arm of this effort.