{"id":234048,"date":"2026-08-03T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/234048\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:42:13","slug":"full-cooperation-how-tel-aviv-university-serves-israels-security-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/234048\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Full cooperation\u2019: How Tel Aviv University serves Israel\u2019s security state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  JVL Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the situation at Tel Aviv university this article shows how the intertwining of Arabic and Middle East studies in Israeli academia and the country\u2019s security establishment probably predates the state itself.<\/p>\n<p>The recent graduation ceremony, in which playing \u201cImagine there\u2019s no countries\u2026\u201d was followed by a guest of honour talk entitled Turning Vision into Security, a paean of praise to Israel\u2019s defence industries, was more in-your-face than usual and protest led to an apology for hurting some in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members affiliated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia4equality.com\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Academia For Equality<\/a> who argued that the problem went beyond an insensitive graduation speech got short shrift however, their claim that the university was being militarised being called \u201ca lie and a fabrication \u2014 a veritable smear campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rapaport and Porath, drawing on Maya Wind\u2019s 2024 book \u201cTowers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Freedom to Palestinians\u201d and up-to-date information, show that it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jvl-intro__original\">\n                      This article was originally published by<br \/>\n                      +972 Magazine in partnership with Local Call on Thu 30 Jul 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/tel-aviv-university-security-state\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original here.<\/a>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                                                      \u2018Full cooperation\u2019: How Tel Aviv University serves Israel\u2019s security state<\/p>\n<p>From Shin Bet recruitment to military training programs, Israel\u2019s defense establishment is becoming increasingly embedded in academic life.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__original-byline\">\n                                              by Meron Rapoport and Aharon Porath, +972 Magazine in partnership with Local Call\n                                          <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__source-body-status\" data-republished-body-status=\"\">Loading article text\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JVL Introduction Focusing on the situation at Tel Aviv university this article shows how the intertwining of Arabic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-234048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117031871626753201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}