Madness in German academe again

Six weeks before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the German Professor of Sports History, ARND KRUEGER, from the University of Goettingen maintained at an academic conference that the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were murdered on September 5, 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich had essentially committed suicide for the sake of Israel. Ilan Mor, the charge d'affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Germany, condemned Krueger's speech as the most abnoxious form of dehumanizing the State of Israel.

We, the German section of the international organization Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, SPME-Germany, strongly condemn Krueger's assertion. We express our sincere sympathy with the families of the 11 murdered Israeli athletes and coaches in Munich.

Promptly after becoming aware of Krueger's speech, SPME-Germany sent a strongly worded letter to the president of the University of Goettingen saying that this is not the first time Krueger has uttered anti-Israel views, and we urged him to take action against that.

Unfortunately our letter was only answered evasively. The Board of the University of Goettingen distanced itself from Krueger's assertions but nevertheless declared on its home page that is not willing to take any further actions, because a supposedly scientific malconduct cannot be proved (see: www.uni-goettingen.de).

We agree with the judgement of the Central Council of Jews in Germany calling this conduct of a renowned German university a "declaration of moral bankruptcy". If such a statement will find followers in Germany, then the day will not be too far on which ugly anti semitic paroles could be presented as scientific findings in our country. We will do our best to stop this development.

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U.N.-FUNDED SCHOOL HONORS INFAMOUS TERRORIST

Declared 'hero' led attack that murdered 36 civilians in Israel

A Palestinian Authority-allied university funded in part by the United Nations dedicated its graduation ceremony to one of the most infamous Palestinian terrorists, WND has learned. The Al Quds Open University dedicated the ceremony last weekend at a major campus in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya to the memory of female suicide bomber Dalal al-Mughrabi, who led an attack in March 1978 that killed a total of 36 Israelis.

According to a faculty member who helped lead the graduation, the master of ceremonies announced the year's graduation cycle was dedicated to the "hero" Mughrabi, who planned and led an attack in which she and 10 other Palestinians infiltrated Israel by sea, landed on a beach, killed an American photographer and then hijacked and blew up a crowded bus. Mughrabi long has been glorified as one of the most important "martyrs" in Palestinian society. Official PA institutions, such as girls' schools and police training camps, bear her name. Songs and poems in her honor are routinely broadcast on PA television and radio.

Israel had kept the remains of Mughrabi and the other terrorists in part so that Palestinian society would not make shrines of their burial places. But as part of a prisoner exchange deal with the Hezbollah terror group last month, Israel released Mughrabi's body and that of dozens of other Palestinians. In the controversial deal, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government also agreed to release Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar and four captured Lebanese guerrillas in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.

Al Quds Open University functions like a community college and maintains campuses throughout the West Bank, with five additional centers in Gaza. The school's headquarters are in Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital. The university is funded by the PA and wealthy Palestinian donors as well as by the U.N. Development Program, or UNDP, the world body's global development network. Other contributors to the university include the French Agency for Development and the KFW Banking Group, a German development fund.

Several major U.S. charity funds, such as the Ford Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, contribute to the UNDP, but it could not immediately be determined whether those funds were used to donate to the Open University.

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