It's an extreme version of what's been going on in the US, though. Academic institutions get politicized, both from within, when they try to exclude staff that is not in line with the majority political view while promoting those in favor, and from without, as a reaction to these proactices.
Military recruiters on campuses form a line of conflict and evoke the politization process..
You would think that the board of directors would act to keep politics out of academia, but often they are complicit.

In the case of Egyptian-israeli relations the effect can be dire.