Oded Goldreich was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest honor, last year. But the computer science professor only collected the prize this past week following criticism by Israeli nationalists to his opposition to Israel's West Bank occupation.
In this photo provided by Oded Goldreich, Oded Goldreich smiles for a selfie at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, Germany, in November 2018. Goldreich was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest honor in 2021. But the computer science professor only collected the prize on April 11, 2022, after overcoming a public assault by Israeli nationalists over his opposition to Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
That narrative, which sees the West Bank and its Jewish settlements as part of Israel and largely ignores the occupation, has become increasingly entrenched in Israel, endangering prospects for Palestinian independence. Anti-occupation actors meanwhile are often painted as enemies of the state and have been targeted with legislation that hobbles their activities.
The outcry prompted the country’s then-education minister to refuse to approve the nomination, saying Goldreich may have violated a 2011 anti-boycott law, and sparked a yearlong legal battle that ended last month when the Supreme Court decided the current education minister, who had also denied Goldreich the prize, must grant it.
Gvaryahu, from Breaking the Silence, said nationalist figures and politicians were working to normalize Israel’s West Bank occupation, deepening it and making it harder for people like Goldreich to challenge it. But recent Israeli governments, prodded by settlers and nationalist supporters, have sought to squeeze opposition to the narrative that sees the West Bank as part of Israel and ignores the occupation.
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