Complicit Israeli universities
Collaborations with Danish universities
- Hosts the three military colleges comprising the ‘Israeli Military Academic Complex’ which according to the university itself “form the backbone of the IDF’s elite training programs”
- Holds courses at an Israeli military base considered an extension of the university
- Revoked the Master degree of Teddy Katz for exposing and documenting the 1948 Tantura massacre
- Called for, and obtained, the resignation of Professor Ilan Pappé for supporting academic boycott
- Home to Institute for National Security Studies, which developed the so-called “Dahiya Doctrine,” involving the disproportionate use of force and the systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure.
- Collaborates closely with Israel’s largest arms manufacurer, Elbit Systems
- Runs a joint research center with the Israeli Air Forces aimed at developing “operational concepts, combat doctrines, and power- building processes.”
- The academic reserve program in the law department trains lawyers for the Military Advocate General, which engages in whitewashing Israel’s war crimes and provides legal justification for the targeting of civilians.
- TAU sits on stolen Palestinian land, on the site of the village of Al-Shaykh Muwannis, which was destroyed in the Nakba in 1948. The last remaining building of the village has been taken over by TAU as the faculty club building.
- The university is playing host to a program named “Erez” in collaboration with the Israeli army, designed to allow those training to become officers to complete a full bachelor’s degree even before completing their course, and aiming to turn them into “combat officers and well-educated academics.”
- Student exchange agreement
- Erasmus+ mobility programme for academic and administrative staff
- Student exchange agreement
- Erasmus+ mobility for academic and administrative staff
- Exchange agreement
- Erasmus+ mobility programme for academic and administrative staff
Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole
- Collaborates closely with some of Israel’s largest weapons manufacturers including Elbit Systems.
- Runs a course ‘Defense Strategy for International Markets’ as of 2017, which trains students in promotion of the international trade of Israeli arms.
- According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, The Technion was complicit in ethnic cleansing in the Galilee, a north-central region of Israel largely populated by Palestinians. Leading academics from The Technion prepared a plan, publicized in 2003, which stated that the Jewish ‘takeover’ of the Galilee was a national priority. Their prospectus began by saying: “It is either them or us. The land problems in the Galilee proved that any territory not taken by Zionist elements is going to be coveted by non-Zionists” [Ilan Pappé, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), p. 257]. A 1993 United Nations Commission defined ethnic cleansing as “the planned deliberate removal from a specific territory, persons of a particular ethnic group, by force or intimidation, in order to render that area ethnically homogenous”, and it is considered a crime against humanity under the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Technion helped to develop D9 remote-controlled bulldozer
- The Israeli army engineering unit has demolished approximately 25,000 Palestinian homes since 1967, according to the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition
- According to one IDF officer, the IDF doubled its order for D-9s after they “performed remarkably during operation Cast Lead [the invasion of Gaza]” . A UN-appointed fact finding mission later reported strong evidence of war crimes committed during that operation
- The scream
- The Scream” is a ‘non-lethal’ acoustic system that ‘creates sound levels that are unbearable to humans at distances up to 100 meters’, according to the Technion. This crowd-control weapon is mainly used to suppress peaceful demonstrations in the occupied Palestinian territories
- “The scream” sonic blaster shoots repeated pulses of sound at targets, leaving them dizzy and nauseous. It can cause shock that could lead to a heart attack, dread and of course to serious, irreversible hearing damage. “The scream” has also been used by the Israeli Police against Israelis at a demonstration in Tel Aviv in 2020.
- Drones
- As part of the Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP), students at The Technion developed the “Stealth drone” which can fly up to 1850 miles and carry two 1100-pound “smart bombs.”
- TASP also developed the “Dragonfly” drone whose 9-inch wing span makes it small enough to “easily enter rooms through small windows and to send back photos from a miniature camera” according to the American Technion Society’s website
- Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
- The Technion and Rafael reaches back over 10 years. In a 2001 press release, The Technion announced an “MBA program tailored specifically for Rafael managers” and the core members of the company are all Technion alumni.
- makes a machine gun turret for Israeli tanks, among many other armaments.
- The Merkava IFV Namer, main battle tank. Among many examples, Shots were fired from one such tank in April 2008, killing a 24-year-old Reuters cameraman and eight Palestinian civilians, aged 12-20. Also responsible of the murder of Hind Rajab, 6 her family and the paramedics sent to rescue her.
- The Technion is a sponsor of the Psagot “academic reserve” program
- Bilateral student exchange agreement
- Erasmus+ mobility programme for students and staff
- Eurotech partnership
- Mount Scopus campus is partly built on illegally occupied land in East Jerusalem.
- Host the IDF’s Havatzalot academic elite program which is designed to train future intelligence officers.
- Hosts the highly secretive Talpiot military program, combining military training with studies in math, physics and computer science.
- Has publicly promoted its provision of ‘diverse logistics equipment to several military units’ since the invasion of Gaza began.
- Michael Federmann, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elbit and biggest owner, is also a member of the Board of Governors of both the Weizman Institute and the Hebrew University
Aarhus University
Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole
- Runs ‘hackathons’ in collaboration with both Elbit Systems and the IDF.
- Has participated in joint research with the army, specifically in developing artificial intelligence for unmanned combat vehicles.
- Collaborates closely with the Shin Bet, Israel’s notorious security services, which has been condemned by the UN Committee Against Torture for its use of torture and other illegal violent interrogation tactics.
- Has been running a joint academic elite program with the Israeli military since 1999, where elite combat soldiers pursue an academic degree while on active duty.
- The only Israeli university where soldiers on active duty in the IDF are authorized to study while serving.
- Entirely built in the illegal settlement of Ariel in the Occupied West Bank. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 reconfirmed in 2016 that Israel’s settlement activity “has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.”
- Home to the Homeland Security institute which has partnerships with both the Ministry of Defence and top Israeli weapons companies, such as Elbit Systems.
- The Israeli military is building a technology campus next to the BGU campus aimed at furthering the ties between the military and BGU and according to a defense ministry official to “reinforce the army’s operational capabilities.”
- Offers a Gap Year programme for high school seniors, to prepare them for “meaningful military service”
- Michael Federmann, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elbit and biggest owner, is also a member of the Board of Governors of both the Weizman Institute and the Hebrew University
- The Weizman Institute initiated with Elbit a program to train high-school pupils in electro-optics in Elbit factories
- Owns patents with Niels Bohr Institute
- Collaboration agreement with the Niels Bohr Institute
- Collaboration agreement with Center for Basic Metabolic Research
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