Bereaved Families Call Hebrew U. Human Rights Program 'Anti-Israel'

"A group of bereaved families has written Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday calling on him to investigate a Hebrew University of Jerusalem program, that provides academic credit in exchange for interning at what they term 'anti-Israel' human rights organizations...

There are a number of what they term 'anti-Israel' NGOs on the list of organizations where students can intern, including B'Tselem, Hamoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual, The Public Committee against Torture in Israel, and Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement.

In a letter, obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post, the bereaved families said they were 'horrified' to learn about the program, which they called 'insensitive' and a 'direct blow' to them.

Among the signatories of the letter are Rina Ariel, whose daughter, Hallel, 13, was stabbed to death by a terrorist in her home in Kiryat Arba; Hadas Mizrahi, whose husband was shot and killed on Passover eve; Eliezer Rosenfeld, whose son Malachi was killed in a shooting attack on his way home; and Devora Gonen, who initiated the letter and whose son Danny Gonen was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.

'We find no reason why the Council for Higher Education should recognize and approve granting [academic] credit for activity in a 'foreign agent' organization which defends terrorists and their families, acts against the State of Israel and that enjoys huge sums of money from foreign governments and the New Israel Fund,' the families wrote..."