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that may be asked in the surveys of professional committees, and a severe damage to the name of individuals and of the university as a whole.
A serious damage to the professional reputation of the members of the Council for Advanced Studies and myself by write to web 'Alef' [an internal Internet chat web of the Israeli Left] in his email from 19/11/2001.
In this email DP asserts, among other things, that the council for advanced studies was about to take a 'reasonable' decision in its first meeting in the case of Mr. Katz, and impose on him minor rectification of inadequate quotation. However, he claims, this decision was foiled by the 'Zionist thought police' that 'was led by the dean of the humanities faculty, Yossi Ben Artzi, that exerted relentless pressure on the frightened members of the council and their decision was rephrased'.
DP assets as well that this decision determined, among other things, that the thesis would be revised and returned to the council for advanced studies, that would decide or re-referred by referees appointed by the same council 'whose members had no idea what history was or what was the Nakbah'.
Moreover, DP insults and hurts the university as a whole, by writing 'with regard to the University of Haifa, it seems that when stupidity and cowardice meet, the result borders quite often between a farce and a tragedy'.
Writing like this DP distorts the facts, and deduces insulting and harmful conclusions, while personally slandering me, and collectively the council members and the university as a whole.
First the council was not about to take the decision he claimed it did, and as far as we know was seeking various solutions. This it did not do in the meeting he refers to, but in the last and decisive meeting in the case of Mr. Katz.
Far more severe is the fact that DP claims I exerted direct and relentless pressure on the members of the council on the decision.
Everybody knows that I did not participate (!) in the meeting in which the various responses to the case of Mr. Katz were discussed. In a previous meeting I was asked to express an opinion about the various options, and with regard to thesis which I read through and through. Therefore I could not have influenced the council members when they discussed the decision, and of court could not exert pressure, and everything DP says on that is a lie and malicious libel, not to mention the slander embodied in the expression 'Zionist police thought'.
DP humiliates and underrates of course all the council members when defining them as clumsy and scared and that they do not know what 'history' is all about.
By doing that in public, DP violated every possible and basic rule of collegial relationship and of telling the truth, and damaged intentionally and publicly me as the dean of the faculty and all the members of the council for advanced studies.
A serious damage, insult and false report with regard to the university rector, the inquiry commission of Mr. Katz' tapes and professor Amazia Baram included in an email he published in the internal university web on 26/6/2001
In his long email DP determines among other things 'the rector of the university must have been bored' and 'the rector' so it seems, enjoyed harassing a little Teddy Katz'. And why because the rector was about to convene a press conference the day after, to report the conclusions of the inquiry commission. DP asserts further that the rector invited to this press conference the lawyer Giyora Erdienst to say few words, and that Teddy Katz was not invited at all. Later he claims that the rector orchestrated a 'a false and malicious campaign', and that the very convention of the press conference is 'a pathetic and callous tier in this never-ending epic'.
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