Tanya Reinhart Dead at 63
(IsraelNN.com) Professor Tanya Reinhart, a linguist and extreme-left activist, died in New York City on Saturday at the age of 63. Reinhart, a former student of Noam Chomsky, left Israel in December of 2006 to teach in New York.
Reinhart was one of the few Israeli professors to support an academic boycott of Israel. She appeared to be in good health, her friends said, and had given several lectures in the months before her death. In those lectures, she called on her listeners to oppose Israel and Israeli policy, saying that Israel is becoming the enemy of the entire Arab and Muslim world. She also accused Israel of orchestrating the 2006 war with Hizbullah in order to annex southern Lebanon and establish the Litani River as Israel's new northern border.