“Israeli academia can’t function a sanctuary for people spreading blood libels towards their very own nation,” Professors for a Sturdy Israel mentioned, strongly condemning Hairston’s publish.
Tel Hai School condemned the now-edited social media publish made by senior lecturer Dr. Ilana Hairston on the second anniversary of the October 7 bloodbath, claiming that Israel, just like the Third Reich, has misplaced its proper to exist.
Hairston’s phrases don’t signify Tel Hai School as a complete, the faculty mentioned in an announcement printed, noting that it proudly stands with its reservist college students and Israel safety forces.
“Simply because the Third Reich misplaced its proper to exist, so too did Israel,” the now-edited publish learn. “In the identical means murderers and rapists have the precise to exist in jail, Israeli leaders have the precise to a life-long stint behind bars.”
“The genocidal state in all its glory,” Hairston wrote within the publish, condemning Israel for its “horrific” remedy of the detained flotilla activists and detailing the alleged beatings and threats the activists have been put by means of.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila sit in a vessel making their technique to Israel, after Israel intercepted a few of the vessels of the World Sumud Flotilla, on this handout picture launched on October 2, 2025. (credit score: ISRAEL FOREIGN MINSTRY/ Handout by way of REUTERS)
Additional condemnation of Hairston’s publish
Professors for a Sturdy Israel, a non-profit group devoted to “selling the safety and Jewish character of the State of Israel,” in accordance with their web site, has strongly condemned Hairston’s publish.
“Israeli academia can’t function a sanctuary for people spreading blood libels towards their very own nation. Tutorial freedom isn’t a license for slander, incitement, or denigrating the state and the Jewish individuals,” mentioned the group.
“The phenomenon of lecturers who communicate out towards Israel and proceed to show undisturbed, as if it’s a reliable place, should come to an finish. Anybody who compares Israel to the Third Reich or questions its proper to exist has forfeited their proper to show in a public establishment.”
The group continued, calling on Training Minister Yoav Kisch and the Council for Larger Training to determine pointers distinguishing between “freedom of thought and freedom of slander,” and to grant establishments the flexibility to take vital disciplinary actions, together with suspension, towards lecturers who use their platforms to “act towards the state.”
