As the debate over Ben-Gurion University’s politics department continues, Meretz
head Zehava Gal-On declared on Saturday that “the Likud wants to scalp the
academia and show it off to [Likud activist] Moshe Feiglin’s camp during the
primary.”
BGU’s political science department has strongly divided the
Left and Right, as the issue has been very much politicized in the past few
weeks.
The department has been criticized for the radical left-wing
opinions of some of its faculty members, by rightwing organizations such as the
Zionist NGO Im Tirzu – which called the program “unbalanced” and “very
disturbing.”
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