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Yuli Tamir, president of Beit Berel College, explained why she preferred the college’s slogan ‘we will grow from this together’ over ‘together we will win’: “I want to know how to grow and not how to take revenge”
Prof. Yuli Tamir, president of Beit Berel College, spoke with Arie Eldad and Ben Caspit on 103fm and explained why the college preferred the slogan ‘we will grow from this together’ over ‘together we will win’ for fear of harming Arab students.
“We have never had a ‘Together we will win’ sign. We considered and asked ourselves what we wanted to hang as an expression of our identification with Israeli society, which by the way is reflected in dozens of volunteering activities with the evacuees in the fields of education, support for the reservists and support for our staff,” said Tamir .
According to her, “We don’t sit on the balcony and look at the situation, we are a very active and dominant part in the aid given to soldiers and evacuees and families in every possible way. But when we asked ourselves what the right slogan is for a school, for an educational place, the theme of ‘to win’ – I admit, it is a decision Mainly mine – it doesn’t seem right. I’m not a general and I’m not beating anyone, I’m building a company that knows how to grow, deal with and decide together how out of the difficulty something fruitful will also grow, and it will help us face the future. That’s my position on dealing with a crisis and that’s what’s written in college, and I am very proud of this sign.”
Another claim: “I think there are different layers in society. There is a layer of medicine, and there are slogans that fit there, and there is a layer of the military and there are slogans that fit there, and there is an educational layer and there are slogans for that. And when they put ‘together we will win’ on my pretzel, I I’m not sure it’s the best. I want every area of Israeli society to think about how best to grow out of this current crisis. This crisis is deep and serious and difficult and painful, and my desire is to know how to grow and not how to take revenge.”
“As an educator, I have one role that deals with people working together towards the future”
She went on to explain: “Beit Berel College is the only college that on October 12 published, on its Jewish and Arab faculty, a clear, unequivocal, poignant position against the massacre, against all the shocking acts that were committed there. There was not a shadow of hesitation. We are the college The unit whose Arab faculty traveled to Bari together with members of Bari who are members of our faculty, to express and see and learn and be as shocked as a human being can be by what happened.”
“I think that as an educator I have one role and it is clear, and it deals with people working together towards the future. If I had guys from Arab society who volunteered to take care of the evacuees, it stems from this position of mine. My position towards my partners is not adversarial but cooperative, why Because I know they are against Hamas and against the massacre. Now the question is how we go from here on, by force or in partnership – and I am on the side of the partnership,” she added.
05/03/2024