Gilush T.H.

🚨 INSIDER FROM ISRAEL’S ACADEMIC ELITE BLOWS THE WHISTLE Asaf Lerman, a senior Israeli architect and longtime academic, is publicly accusing parts of Israel’s academic, cultural and “human rights” establishment of helping build the intellectual infrastructure used to delegitimize Israel abroad. The screenshot below shows dozens of Israeli civil-society organizations publicly standing behind the creators of the film “NZA.” Among them: Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights. He focuses on Bimkom as a case study. According to the figures he cites: • Roughly NIS 5.2 million in donations in 2024 • Around NIS 4.9 million — 94% — came from abroad • Funders include European governments, EU bodies, UN-linked institutions and foreign NGOs • Around NIS 3.7 million of its budget goes to salaries • Senior figures connected to the organization have explicitly used frameworks such as “settler colonialism” and “settler-colonial urbanism” to describe Israel His accusation is bigger than one NGO: Parts of Israel’s own academic elite are creating the language — “settler colonialism,” “colonialism,” “racism” — that is then exported to universities, NGOs and activists abroad and used to challenge Israel’s legitimacy. And he says he knows the system because he comes from it himself. His warning: “The world increasingly sees Israel the way this irresponsible elite describes it. Once we could remain silent. Today we cannot.”