While award elicits well-deserved mockery, it also highlights ongoing complicity between Israeli academic institutions and government anti-Palestinian propaganda initiatives. Read more about Israel's Dublin embassy, notorious for racist gaffes, wins online diplomacy prize 

Israel’s Dublin embassy proposed a plan to combat Palestine solidarity activists by smearing them as suffering from psychological and sexual problems and implying they work for Mossad. Read more about Israel's Dublin embassy planned to smear Palestine activists as sexual deviants and Mossad agents