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If you think American universities are uniquely bad, take heart: They're not so hot in Israel, either.(The Week)(Brief article)
If you think American universities are uniquely bad, take heart: They're not so hot in Israel, either. We were arrested by a recent headline: "Heb. U. Paper Finds: IDF Has Political Motives for Not Raping." Oh? A grad student at Hebrew University set out to discover why Israeli soldiers don't rape women under their control. Rape by conquering armies has been a plague from time immemorial. Is it that Israeli soldiers happen not to be rapists? No, not really. Have a little of this paper: "The lack of organized military rape is an alternate [sic] way of realizing political goals. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic ...
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