Following right wing pressure The University of Haifa rescinded permission
for a student-organized Nakba Day event, just three hours before the
event was to have taken place. The university’s president, Aaron Ben-Ze’ev,
announced the cancelation even after organizers received permits from
all relevant bodies. The Hadash students’ organization released a statement
saying, “Our feeling is that little by little we are returning
to the period of military rule, and from the most unexpected place –
academia.”

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report in Ha’aretz