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Gelber, myself and the department for Eretz Israel studies as a whole, as well severe damage to the professional reputation, based on lies, included in DP's emails from 22/01/2001 and 20/11/2001
Here are the defamation and lies, next to the facts:
'I doubt whether Gelber ever read even one general research on oral history' - and the fact, Professor Gelber has already published in DAPIM (7) 1989 a very important methodological article on the subject.
'Since he belongs to the department of Eretz Israel Studies he will never know that this is a common response. The department to which he belongs does not examines its peers according to their achievements abroad…but is content with publication in Hebrew in journal edited by Gelber's friends from the IDF or partners to his ideological way'. And similarly, 'on the day Gelber would be judged by historians abroad is the day when he can preach us'. And ' in a department where almost all its members do not speak Arabic, the history of the land is depicted as if they were on the paying role of the Jewish Agency and they did not produce even one critical research, compared with many court histories, of the 1948 war…'. 'In the world of this department experts are a matter of expertise for a given year in history or an event, but not to historical disciplines'.
Out of this rude and wild accusation it emerges as if professor Gelber and with him all the teachers of the department of Eretz Israel studies:
Do not publish in foreign languages
Are not judged in their promotion according to accepted scientific standards.
Do not publish in referred journals
Can not handle Arabic
Constitute works on behalf of the 'Jewish Agency' [!} - hence they are propagandists and not academic scholars.
Do not publish critical stuff.
All these things emerge from the slanderous words of DP and based on lies, insults, rudeness, contempt and lack of knowledge about the works written in the department. A short survey of the publication list of members reveals the following facts:
All the members of the department without an exception published known works in English, French, German, Spanish and even in Arabic.
All the members of the department publish articles in refereed journals in Israel and abroad.
Almost all the members of the department were known at the time as publishers of critical scientific stuff, such as Gelber on the IDF's origins, 'MASSADA' on the Carmel and more; Ben-Artzi on the Arabs of Haifa, the design of settlements and the history of settling the country; Goldstein on 'Hashomer'; Barnai on Zionist historiography; Golani on the Sinai War.
A fair share of the members (Ginat, Frankel, Ahroni, Dana and a bit more Ben Artzi) has used and uses Arabic in their research and teaching.
All these facts were known from visiting personal internet websites and the publication list of the teachers and were well know to DP when he decided to attack in a rude and wild manner, based of falsity and full of hate against the Department of Eretz Israel studies and its teachers.
In his words there is a damage in the reputation and professional integrity of the department's members, and an undermining through lies their chances for professional promotion, and only this he should be brought to justice on the base of clause 1.2 in the codex of the academic staff.
Moreover, in this email DP libels Professor Gelber by attributing to him a
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