The ‘major report’ has major flaws in it, is in fact an organized attempt to suppress pro-Palestine speech and Palestinians in schools, and Polanski is right to raise questions:
https://t.co/ThdiZOzqgu
I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.
Here's the rub, though.
The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.
It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.
Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.
But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?
And here's the staggering hypocrisy.
We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.
Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.
And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.
Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.
@NEUnion@educationgovuk
Perhaps the most stark and revealing (accidental?) admission in the David Bell 'antisemitism in UK schools report. Antisemitic attitudes aren't increasing, only anti-Israel ones are. That's what most of this is about.
From the horse's mouth:
https://t.co/uxpNPelsEy
You’d never know by this post that the five Israelis are armed IDF soldiers. But they made sure to tell you the Palestinians were definitely the bad guys. Tried, convicted, and sentenced in one headline.
Try to imagine a prominent host on any news or entertainment network in America asking a fellow on-air panelist ‘You want more Jews in positions of power? You want more Black people in positions of power?’
Just try and imagine that. Try.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying.
No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.
Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence.
We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.
“Stand straight, straighten your rows, close the gaps, and align yourselves…”
Then begins Surah Al-Fatihah, and the voice of Sheikh Al-Shuraim fills the air with such deep humility and devotion that it touches the heart even before reaching the ears.
How magnificent is this beautifully melodious recitation from his historic years, when his sweet voice echoed through the sacred precincts of the House of Allah.
A recitation that carries its own awe and majesty, accompanied by cherished memories and a nostalgia that will never be forgotten.
📼 2000 - 1421
The government's antisemitism in schools report is a travesty.
It's riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions.
And it will be used to silence people over Palestine 👇
https://t.co/ryc1lrCWQp
Hang on a minute – something ain't right.
Since only 32% of British Jewish schoolchildren go to non-Jewish schools, and 60% (3 in 5) are supposedly facing "antisemitism" at school, that means at least 28% of Jewish schoolchildren are facing "antisemitism" at Jewish schools! /1
Q: "You would block the creation of a Palestinian state?"
Netanyahu: "I have been blocking it... We cannot have a Palestinian state because that's the end of a Jewish state"
A permanent commitment to denying Palestinians a state- because their freedom would mean the end of Jewish supremacy. He admits it: the only way to maintain a Jewish state is to deny Palestinians their own.
🚨 BREAKING:
Hunt: "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?"
Abd El-Sayed: "Now, the question of the right to exist is interesting, because I've never been asked whether I believe Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether we want a policy where our money is sent to Israel to commit genocide and apartheid, rather than investing it in our children."
Hunt: "Does it have a right to exist?"
“They are not just dead. They are people who were killed. They are not numbers. They are lives, each with a name, a face and a family.”
This is how Pep Guardiola @PepTeam begins his deeply moving message about Palestinians in Gaza, in collaboration with UNRWA