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world of content taken allegedly from a police milieu and not the academic world. He writes:
The 'witness' in Gelber is a figure taken from the interrogation rooms of the Shabak or the CID in the Police.
The 'rules that he [Gelber] brings from the world of police and military investigation are well known to him…"
Professor Gelber did all his military service as an officers in the parachutes and an officer of education and instruction, and then as an academic in Yad va-Shem and in the university of Haifa, He has not background in the police or the Shabak, and the words of DP were meant to disrepute him and damage his professional and academic integrity, and to cause him shame in public. Only for that he should be brought to justice on the basis of clause 1.2 in the codex of the academic staff.
This document is brought as a basis for bringing to justice a colleague who had violated every possible framework of academic discourse, of a mater of fact and scientific debate, which deteriorated into personal defamation and a serious individual damage as well as collective in the department of Eretz Israel studies.
All the mentioned violations in clause E, based on DP's email to the university staff on 20/11/2001
Ten months after his first email in Hebrew, a despite everything that was revealed to him throughout the period on Mr. Katz' thesis, and on the fact that his colleagues were seriously hurt by his slander, dissipated in the country and abroad. [pappe- I know this sentence does not make sense but this is how it appears].
This time, the email is being resent in an 'improved' version in English, so that as many people as possible in the wide academic world would be exposed to the slander, curses and damage to personal reputations as well as to the collective quality of the staff in the department of Eretz Israel studies. Thus for instance the department is named as having an introversive (!) nature, and again the cheeky lie is mentioned as if most (not all) of the researchers publish only in Hebrew and are not exposed to dialogue with the outside world (!)
Again in this letter a severe accusation is being directed against Professor Gelber and against all four members of the inquiry committee (Baram, Nevo, Talmon and Jiris) and as if they are inflicted 'with an inability stemming from ignorance or intellectual laziness, in order to understand the place of theory and general methodological debate in history'.
The whole document is full with scorn and contempt especially towards professor Gelber, as a continuum to DP's remarks in the last two years.
Conclusion
1st. DP crossed every possible border of tolerance and mutual respect needed among members of an academic staff in the university. He attacked again and again the university and represents it in front of the academic world as a place where moral abuses are taking place, as a place of discrimination and ideologically biased in every possible way. The rector and the council for advanced studies are blamed for one sidedness, of feebleness, of a student's harassment and distortion. DP has defamed the university on every possible stage, especially in the email correspondence presented in the suit.
2nd. DP damaged in a non-collegial way the professional reputation and chances of promotion of various colleagues, among them, Professor Nevo, Professr Talmon, Dr. Jiris and myself, but slandering them in letters to presidents of professional associations in the US and UK, and in them calling upon them to use to the outmost their power and influence embodied in the promotion and tenure procedures of academics in Israel. This is a rude violation of any possible ethical rule that includes libel, defamation, lies and coveted threats.
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