Video Exposes Anti-Israel Indoctrination Happening in American High Schools

• Newton's high schools have used Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) maps that falsify the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Newton students were not told that the maps were created by the PLO's propaganda unit.
  
  
• Newton's schools presented students with a falsified version of the Hamas Charter. In Newton's doctored version the word "Jews" – as a target of hatred -- is replaced with the word "Zionists."
  
  
• In one lesson, Newton students are asked to consider the Jewish state's right to exist. (The legitimacy of no other nation-state's existence is questioned.) The lesson included "expert" opinions, which are drawn overwhelmingly from anti-Israel academics and anti-Semitic activists. 
  
  
• A book used in Newton high schools has a recommended reading list that includes the extremist writings by Muslim Brotherhood leaders including Sayyid Qutb, and Yusuf Qaradawi, whose sermons call for the murder of Jews and homosexuals.
  
  
• Newton schools officials are shown to continuously refuse to make school curricula and teaching materials available to the Newton residents.  
  
  

The video also shows that Saudi, Palestinian, and other Arab-funded teaching materials have been inserted into the curriculum, much of it containing anti-Israel bias.

Original Quill wrote:The article doesn't provide any of the materials for us to judge for ourselves.  As I've said before, adjectives are not arguments.  The clip has a lot of adjectives and we are suppose to condemn any association with Muslims.  I think that's wrong.

Frankly, I am pleased that the City of Newton is providing educational materials from diverse sources.  It broadens the education of the students.  I don't see a link between the Newton teachers and any nefarious groups.  I see this as an issue of academic freedom, where scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.

The Newton community is in the shadows of Harvard University, one of the three best higher education institutions in the US (Berkeley and Stanford are the others).  No doubt this curriculum has been developed and overseen by the finest minds in America...they dare to push the envelope, and the world is better for it.  I'm proud of them.

Original Quill wrote:I don't see any false information.

The video was very sophomoric.   It had a lot of adjectives and absolutely no facts.  None!  Which was surprising because usually these slick, polemical pieces at least try for the appearance of reality.

As you know, adjectives are not facts.  They are used do dupe the uncritical among us.  One has to ask, why do they put out this trash?

The answer is quite simple, especially given the similarity to what is being said by American Republicans like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.  Ultimately this piece is produced by, or with the backing of the Israeli state.  The Conservative Netanyahu has reduced the politics of that once noble country to the level of Republicans and Tories: liars and flim-flam artists.  The lies that Israel engaged in about the two-state solution set the tone and announced that deception was the order of the day.  Now, surprise, we see the very deception predicted.

Original Quill wrote:Nothing there, didge.  Give it up.