Anti-Israel Indoctrination Starts in Elementary School

Some of the anti-Israel activists causing so much disorder on American college campuses picked up their ideas from their professors, others from friends. But some students likely arrive as freshman already firm in their hostility toward the Jewish state—quite possibly because of what they’ve learned in high school, or even earlier. Hannah Meyers describes a “Curriculum Share for Palestine” in which teachers at New York City public middle schools explained how “to teach students to despise Zionism.” The organizers’ opening statement made their agenda clear:

“As educators committed to doing our part in the fight for Palestinian liberation,” [they explained], “let’s remember struggles are interconnected.” Then, participants received a list of acceptable emotions for engaging in the discussion. You can only ask questions that “come from” the right place and you must “understand that anti-Zionism is NOT anti-Semitism.” As it unfolded, the meeting’s brainstorming was not actually about curricula in the traditional sense; rather, participating teachers strategized on how to connect children’s feelings to ordained feelings about Zionism.

One teacher, Meyers reports, proudly explained that she sees it as her duty “to help the twelve-year-old boy who’s an amazing kid, whose parents identify as strongly Zionist, to understand why the ideology is both harmful and offensive to others.” Meyers also notes another tendency evident in addition to the naked politicization of teaching, namely the emphasis on emotion, a broader trend that is creating “a generation of young people who cannot reason from data” and who are “taught that to do so is racist and lacks empathy.”

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More about: Anti-Zionism, Education

The Mass Expulsion of Palestinians Is No Solution. Neither Are Any of the Usual Plans for Gaza

Examining the Trump administration’s proposals for the people of Gaza, Danielle Pletka writes:

I do not believe that the forced cleansing of Gaza—a repetition of what every Arab country did to the hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews in 1948— is a “solution.” I don’t think Donald Trump views that as a permanent solution either (read his statement), though I could be wrong. My take is that he believes Gaza must be rebuilt under new management, with only those who wish to live there resettling the land.

The time has long since come for us to recognize that the establishment doesn’t have the faintest clue what to do about Gaza. Egypt doesn’t want it. Jordan doesn’t want it. Iran wants it, but only as cannon fodder. The UN wants it, but only to further its anti-Semitic agenda and continue milking cash from the West. Jordanians, Lebanese, and Syrians blame Palestinians for destroying their countries.

Negotiations with Hamas have not worked. Efforts to subsume Gaza under the Palestinian Authority have not worked. Rebuilding has not worked. Destruction will not work. A “two-state solution” has not arrived, and will not work.

So what’s to be done? If you live in Washington, New York, London, Paris, or Berlin, your view is that the same answers should definitely be tried again, but this time we mean it. This time will be different. . . . What could possibly make you believe this other than ideological laziness?

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More about: Donald Trump, Gaza Strip, Palestinians