February 23, 2001

Conservative Think Tank Takes on Israeli Academics

By HAIM WATZMAN

The Shalem Center attacks research and textbooks that it says devalue Zionism

At a conference on the historiography of Zionism at Tel Aviv University last month, the University of Haifa's Daniel Gutwein wore a rumpled shirt; Tel Aviv's Nisim Calderon was in jeans; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Neri Horowitz was uncombed; and Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Yehoshua Porath slouched in his chair.

Yoram Hazony, president of a think tank called the Shalem Center, was in a

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