Ariel University

Israel Antiquities Authority workers dig at the site of archaeological excavations as part of the plan to build an elevator to the Western Wall, at the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City, November 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After backlash, conference drops Israeli archeologist for settlement university ties

Archeologists criticized the participation of two Ariel University scholars at the international event, citing illegality of excavations on occupied territory.

By Oren Ziv May 28, 2023

Medical team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A medical school in the service of colonialism

Ariel University's new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel's national medical body is defending it.

By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadli March 3, 2022

Illustrative photo of doctors in Israel during surgery. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Tel Aviv University faculty condemn deal with settlement medical school

The deal will allow students from Ariel University to do clinical work in TAU's affiliated hospitals. 'We're being forced to support the occupation.'

By Meron Rapoport January 21, 2021

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Border police officers stand in front of Palestinians as they wait to cross from Qalandiya checkpoint outside Ramallah, West Bank, into Jerusalem to attend the second Friday Ramadan prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, July 26, 2013. (Photo: Activestills.org)

The end of Israel’s ‘enlightened’ occupation

A decision to apply Israel’s higher education law to the West Bank exposes as a ruse Israel’s claims that it administers the occupied Palestinian territories according to international law. By Michal Luft For years, Israel nurtured its image as an enlightened occupier in the Palestinian territories. It not only insisted on portraying itself to the…

By +972 Magazine February 15, 2018

Bulldozers in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. (flickr / ☪yrl CC BY-NC 2.0)

Survey: Israeli Jews tolerate settlements, status quo

A new survey released by Ariel-which-is-now-known-as-a-University, shows, remarkably, that the majority of Israeli Jews inside the Green Line are still basically wedded to settlements and barely register that they pose a problem. -A 52 percent absolute majority agrees that settlements are “a true Zionist act,” twice as many those who disagree (26 percent). The remainder,…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 13, 2013

Screenshot of Ariel University Student Union Facebook banner

Ariel students call for Obama protest – in comically broken English

As I reported a few days ago, students from the recently-accredited Ariel University in the occupied West Bank are angry they were not invited to attend U.S. President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem this coming Thursday. The U.S. Embassy denies claims Obama is boycotting the students, and stated that it simply invited students from those institutions it…

By Mairav Zonszein March 17, 2013

U.S. President Barack Obama (Center for American Progress/CC)

Is Obama boycotting Israel’s new settlement university?

Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s trip to Israel on Wednesday, the embassy here is reportedly sending out around 2,000 invitations to Israeli student representatives from universities across the country to attend his speech in Jerusalem on March 21. All except one: Ariel University in the West Bank settlement of the same name (upgraded from a college…

By Mairav Zonszein March 14, 2013

College in Ariel, West Bank (Wikimedia CC BY SA 3.0)

Israeli minister aptly compares Ariel settlement with Falklands

Last Tuesday, it became official: the IDF (following approval from Defense Minister Barak) recognized the academic center in the settlement of Ariel as a full-fledged university. International condemnation soon followed. A UK minister, for instance, expressed disappointment regarding Israel’s decision, and labeled it an obstacle to peace. In response, Israeli Education Minister Gideon Saar (Likud)…

By Roi Maor December 29, 2012

Ariel University Center of Samaria (By he:User:מיכאלי at he.wikipedia [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons)

Institutionalizing occupation: the ‘University’ of Ariel

In the U.S. slavery was an accepted, normal institution for the first 140 years of the country’s existence. While American universities are now trying to come to terms with their historical corroboration with slavery, Israel is just beginning to institutionalize its system of oppression through accreditation of the Ariel settlement college. By Louis Frankenthaler Universities are meant…

By +972 Magazine July 26, 2012

IDF soldiers visiting Auschwitz (Photo: Whistling in the Dark/flickr)

Failure of death camp tours for IDF officers – a success?

For the past two decades or so, Israel has been on a feverish mission to send young people – all of them, if possible – to visit the death camps of Poland, to cement the notion that the Holocaust is the primary basis for Israel’s existence. I find this inherently problematic. It is even more…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 29, 2012