“The smear campaign against him continues even after his tragic death”: this is how Dr Anat Matera senior lecturer in philosophy at Tel Aviv University And next to a minutethe oldest security prisoner held in an Israeli prison, after being convicted of involvement in the cell that kidnapped and murdered the soldier Moshe Tamm. University students are already calling for her dismissal.
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“I will write more about Walid Deka, the intellectual, the friend, the noble of the soul, in more detail, when I manage to find words. Over the years, we hoped that Walid would be released with his sentence shortened by a third or, unfortunately, by a few years,” she wrote in a post she published on social media. “At the end of the terrible road, we prayed that he would be released at least because of his deteriorating health.
“In the deal for the release of Gilad Shalit, several Israeli citizen prisoners were released, including close friends of Walid. But not him. The smear campaign against him, which continues even after his tragic death, it is impossible to imagine any release, of any kind. The only hope was that he would complete the The last year of his prison term left, and then he will be released. He didn’t deserve that.”
At the end, Mater brought a surprising message that Deka, with whom she had been in contact with for many years, had told her about the release of the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit: “I was very happy and even moved to see Gilad Shalit being released and returning to his family and life… because a man whose freedom has been taken away understands deep in his soul that freedom has no nationality or skin color.
Students at Tel Aviv University (those photographed have no relation to the article. Photo: Flash 90)
“Whoever has not faced this does not understand the essence of freedom… When the boy/soldier first appeared on the television screen skinny, shy, confused, I almost screamed – oh how miserable and stupid we are. I discussed my feelings with the prisoners and found that I was not alone in this feeling.”
Students at the university, as expected, did not go by her statement in silence, and were quick to call for her dismissal. Shiraz student faculty at the university
Tel Aviv for political science said: “Insult. It is disgraceful to study at a university that allows itself to employ such a lecturer. Freedom of speech also has a limit. She cries over the death of a terrorist who took the life of Moshe Tamm, a soldier in the IDF in 1984, is the act of terrorism not wrong in her eyes? shame”.
Ofek Tayeb, a third-year student, said: “As a reservist who was released, I feel a great shame that this wicked woman is still lecturing at Tel Aviv University. While we are fighting to return to our routine, which is not easy anyway, someone from the faculty praises a murderer. I have not forgotten her previous horrible statement that hanging Israeli flags is a disease, and now she has already returned with a provocative statement while crying over the death of a cursed terrorist who murdered the late soldier Moshe Tamm, and further clarifies that he is a source of inspiration.
“Inspiration for what? To murder?! What is this if not a spit in the face of thousands of bereaved families, families that have fallen apart and will not return to their former selves. I simply feel sorry for her, and sad for us, for this entire nation, that our greatest enemies are within us.”
Shira Peleg, a third-year student: “As a senior lecturer in the department of philosophy who published an entire book on the paucity of moral discourse, her appalling statements at the most sensitive and painful time in the State of Israel (the country where she chose to teach) arouse in me a rage that is accompanied by a huge crisis of confidence in the university that gives to such a person what For me, this is a double standard. A person who preaches moral values, rushes to eulogize a terrorist who sat in prison after being defined as an enemy of the state. Her ability to empathize with the pain of others comes at the expense of her ability to empathize with the pain of her people. The horrifying eulogy for the terrorist joins the expression that preceded it in 2022, when flags were hung in the library in honor of Independence Day, “This is what a disease looks like.”
The Tel Aviv University responded: “Tel Aviv University condemns and condemns Anat Matar’s words in every way. This is a private statement outside of the academic framework. The things will be examined later based on the university’s policy regarding freedom of expression.”
