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Little Tich

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7. I'm actually impressed.
Sat Oct 15, 2016, 11:14 PM
Oct 2016

In total, I have a favorable impression of the material found on the website, in particular (for me) the syllabi about Israeli history (http://israelandtheacademy.org/syllabi-category/topic/). There's of course an emphasis on resources that are positive towards Israel, but anyone with a critical mindset won't have any problems. This is a compilation of the works of serious scholars.

Now, the bad part, which isn't really that bad: I found some fliers that are more or less 100% hasbara, but as they don't really conform to the reality based approach of the rest of the website, it's no biggie: http://israelandtheacademy.org/organizing-category/fliers/

And I found this syllabi from a course led by Gerald M. Steinberg. I would say that taking his course would cause you to know less about human rights and civil society than before you took it. He's a clown.

Gerald M. Steinberg (Political Science—Bar Ilan University—Israel):
Politics, Human Rights, and Civil Society

http://israelandtheacademy.org/syllabi-category/topic/

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