Fwd: Honorary Doctorate for Torturer Yoram Cohen???

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Date: Thu, May 24, 2018, 10:25 PM
Subject: Honorary Doctorate for Torturer Yoram Cohen???
To: <info@afbiu.org>, <robert.katz@afbiu.org>, <karen.reuven@afbiu.org>

Bar Ilan University is planning to give an honorary doctorate to Yoram Cohen, former head of the Shin Bet during the time of the Duma arson affair. Yoram Cohen will be known in ignonimy as the person who signed the paper giving the Shabak permission to torture 16 year old Elisha Odess and 18 year old Amiram ben Uliel for two weeks without stop.  

Yoram Cohen should not be getting an award from a religious university. He should be on trial for the crime of the torture of innocent Jewish children to gain false confessions for a crime they did not commit. Since there was no evidence of their connection to this crime, Yoram Cohen ordered their torture to gain false confessions. 

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Please write to Bar Ilan University expressing your opinions about this award. 

You can email the American Friends of Bar Ilan University at: 

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robert.katz@afbiu.org; 

karen.reuven@afbiu.org.  

Prof. Hillel Weiss: "Honorary Doctorate" to Yoram Cohen?

Professor Hillel Weiss protests the decision of Bar-Ilan University to award an Honorary Doctorate to Yoram Cohen, who headed the ISA (Shin Bet) during the Duma investigation. 

Hillel Weiss, a professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, sent a letter of protest to the president of Bar Ilan University following the university's decision to grant an honorary doctorate to Yoram Cohen, former Shin Bet chief.

In the letter, Prof. Weiss protested the award of the title to Yoram Cohen, following the torture of the youths suspected of arson in Duma during his tenure as head of the GSS.

At the opening of the letter, Weiss said that the University's decision "is attached to a long list of unnecessary honors during its years of existence."

"Yoram Cohen was head of the Shabak when he signed permission for the Shabak to physically and mentally torture two innocent minors for two weeks to obtain forced confessions for the Duma arson. These youth have subsequently been languishing in prison for over two and a half years without trial. Yoram Cohen refuses to apologize for his actions and has made no attempt to correct unacceptable norms that undermine state security, law, justice and morality," wrote Weiss.

"It is not befitting for a religious university to award such a person with an academic honor." 

According to Weiss, "If Mr. Cohen admits his guilt and publicly expresses remorse, it will be fitting to award him with an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the moral awakening of the Israeli security establishment, especially in the last few years."

Prof. Weiss sent the letter to the president of the university, Prof. Arie Zaban and the university rector, Prof. Miriam Faust.

Translation of article from Arutz Sheva 

https://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/373880