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  1. Israeli Study Suggests Oral Health Begins in the Womb – J-Wire

    New Israeli research suggests mothers may shape their children’s oral health long before the first tooth appears, potentially…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #HebrewUniversity #israel #Jerusalem #Oralhealth #pregnancy #research
    newsbeep.com/au/645980/

  2. Israeli Study Suggests Oral Health Begins in the Womb – J-Wire

    New Israeli research suggests mothers may shape their children’s oral health long before the first tooth appears, potentially…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #HebrewUniversity #israel #Jerusalem #Oralhealth #pregnancy #research
    newsbeep.com/au/645980/

  3. Von der Keilschrift zum Touchscreen ✍️📱 Wie sich die Handschrift im Laufe der Zeit entwickelt hat, erforscht ein internationales Team der #FUBerlin und der #HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem. Das Projekt „The Principles of Handwritten Script Evolution“ wird mit rund 300.000 Euro von der @volkswagenstiftung.de gefördert.

    Alle Infos:

    fu-berlin.de/presse/informatio

  4. On the Hebrew University’s invitation to Javier Milei and why it shouldn’t surprise anyone

    #Argentine President Javier #Milei is expected to arrive in Jerusalem tomorrow to speak at the Hebrew University. Miley is admired by the Israeli right for his unwavering support of Israel and his promise to relocate the Argentinian embassy to #Jerusalem.

    Since taking office, Milei has slashed over 70% of public university budgets, vetoing a law to ensure adequate funding and accusing faculty members at the University of Buenos Aires of corruption. The university’s budget has seen a 26% cut while the Argentinian secret service budget increased by 68%. Over 60% of university employees are now below the poverty line. While austerity measures might be argued for, Milei's actions appear to be a deliberate attack on education, #liberalism, and potential political opposition.

    Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-06

    There have been growing calls to boycott the Hebrew University. Two Dutch universities have recommended suspending academic partnerships, citing the institution’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

    The Hebrew University was found to be directly training Israeli military intelligence officers through the Havatzalot program. The university develops military technologies used in #Gaza through Talpiot program. The campus was built on illegally occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem and armed soldiers attend classes on campus, creating militarized environment.

    New advice: minimise existing cooperation with three Israeli universities erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2025/05/

    PDF eur.nl/media/2025-05-20250526-

    PDF ru.nl/sites/default/files/2025

    See also Maya Wind's book, Towers of Ivory and Steel, investigates the material realities of this involvement, arguing that Israeli universities are deeply embedded in the state and implicated in decades of Palestinian dispossession.

    @academicchatter
    @palestine
    @israel
    #IsraelWarCrimes #HebrewUniversity
    #neoliberalism

  5. #Israel / Honorary Doctorate for Genocidal Herzog at Hebrew University

    The Hebrew University Senate held a contentious vote regarding awarding #Herzog an honorary doctorate. While 46 senators supported the proposal, 35 opposed and 12 abstained. The university claims the motion passed, but opponents argue it failed since the combined opposition and abstentions (47) exceeded supporters (46).

    Some say Herzog failed to adequately oppose the "judicial overhaul," while others cite his consistent backing of higher education and academic freedom. The honorary degree was planned for June 2025, marking the university's centennial.

    The #ICJ ruling against Israel quoted several genocidal statements made by Israeli officials — not just extremists on the right, but also President Herzog, who said: "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible... and we'll fight until we break their backbone."

    The faculty's moral objections seem to be very selective. While they oppose awarding Herzog an honorary doctorate based on his perceived passivity during the judicial overhaul, they don't address his more direct and consequential role in #Israel's revenge war on #Gaza, including statements that the ICJ cited as potentially indicative of genocidal intent.

    The Honorary degree discussions began in September 2023, before the current war on Gaza broke, but it also reflects Hebrew University's academic self-interest, as the judicial overhaul directly threatened academic freedom and institutional autonomy. It may also represent an attempt to steer away from controversial issues, since opposing the judicial overhaul is a relatively "safer" position within Israeli society than calling the war on Gaza a genocide.

    Hebrew archive.ph/wAK9ihttps://www.ha or archive.ph/wAK9i

    Israeli universities are criticized for their complicity in this "scholasticide," as they have been a key part of Israel's oppression of Palestinians for decades. Despite being celebrated in the West as liberal institutions, Israeli universities have played a significant role in planning, implementing, and justifying Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.

    See: Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime jacobin.com/2024/02/israel-uni

    @israel
    @palestine
    @academicchatter #HebrewUniversity #HUJI
    #IsraelWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

    Edit: added #IsraelWarCriminals

  6. Eine Mixtur aus einer Million Peptide als zukünftiges #Antibiotikum? Ein Forschungsteam der Freien Universität Berlin, der #HebrewUniversity und der #ETHZürich zeigt in einer neuen Studie einen Ansatz, um #Antibiotikaresistenz zu minimieren
    Alle Info ➡️ fu-berlin.de/presse/informatio

  7. Wind, Maya. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. Verso, 2024.

    Excerpts:

    The settler university: Israeli academia has always been part of Israel’s territorial objectives in Palestine. (2024, April 29). Retrieved from mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinio

    The Israeli scholarly security state. (2024, April 29). Retrieved from mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinio

    The Israeli scholarly security state. (2024, April 29). Retrieved from mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinio

    @palestine
    @israel
    @academicchatter
    #HebrewUniversity
    #Apartheid
    #EthnicCleansing
    #Anthropology #history

  8. #Palestine / In her own words: Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Zionism

    The Hebrew University suspended Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian [from teaching] today, after she refused to resign.

    @israel
    @palestine
    #Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza
    #HebrewUniversity #Zionism
    @academicchatter

  9. In the year 2023-24, Iris Nachum from #HebrewUniversity, Gideon Reuveni from the #Universityof Sussex and I from #NewcastleUniversity will be leading a research group on "Paying for the Past: #Reparations after the #Holocaust in Global Context" at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (#IIAS) in #Jerusalem. Very grateful for this opportunity! Please get in touch if that’s of interest to you, if you have concrete ideas, suggestions, want to contribute etc. We have just started our planning for the next academic year: iias.huji.ac.il/paying-past-re