Israeli education

[Post To The Left]

The Arab countries' education system is notorious for its anti-Israeli slant, the worst probably being the horrible theocracy of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi education system controlled by the Wahabbism extremist House of Saud teaches that "Jews are descended from 'monkeys and pigs'" something that still is taught today.

A brave Israeli academic, Peled-Elhanan, a professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem risked ostracization and being shut out of the rigid Israeli academe to study Israeli textbooks. She found that Israeli schools are doing similar things as the Saudis:

'The Arab with a camel, in an Ali Baba dress. They describe them as vile and deviant and criminal, people who don't pay taxes, people who live off the state, people who don't want to develop,' she says. 'The only representation is as refugees, primitive farmers and terrorists. You never see a Palestinian child or doctor or teacher or engineer or modern farmer

...In 'hundreds and hundreds' of books, she claims she did not find one photograph that depicted an Arab as a 'normal person' ... She describes what she found as racism– but, more than that, a racism that prepares young Israelis for their compulsory military service.

--The Guardian

And what is probably most surprising is the how the Israeli education system admits the Deir Yassin massacre:

In school books they tell you that this massacre initiated the massive flight of Arabs from Israel and enabled the establishment of a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. So it was for the best. Maybe it was unfortunate, but in the long run the consequences for us were good.

So is this indoctrination to demonize the Palestinian population justified because the Saudi's do worse?

Edited August 8, 2011 by Post To The Left

[Remiel]

How do you expect anyone to take your seriously if you do not post sources for your claims about Israeli textbooks?

[Post To The Left]

How do you expect anyone to take your seriously if you do not post sources for your claims about Israeli textbooks?

Really? It's not there? Well it is now.

[eyeball]

Nurit Peled-Elhanan of Hebrew University says textbooks depict Palestinians as 'terrorists, refugees and primitive farmers'

They describe them as vile and deviant and criminal, people who don't pay taxes, people who live off the state, people who don't want to develop,'

A little spin here and there and this could just as easily be used to describe anyone on the right or left. But as it turns out...

She dismisses the Israeli left as always small and timid, but especially now. "There has never been a real left in this country." She believes that the education system helps to perpetuate an unjust, undemocratic and unsustainable state.

Goddamn right-wingers, they're just not going to be happy until the entire planet is as miserable and backward as they are.

[Oleg Bach]

As the rich Araibic elite sit and dictate- insisting that they keep stoning poor disadvantaged woman - flooging their own poor and chopping off a few hands when they get bored...they propogate the idea that the regions ills are due to the Jews being such evil creatures - As Saudi Arabia and other denouce the Syrian government they still think back in warm romance about how they put up the money to knock down the World Trade Center...that of course was staffed by 3000 Jews that they managed to kill - of course all the world is a bad place other than their holy place - "pass me the tea Omar and where are those little boys you ordered up for Thursday night"?

[Oleg Bach]

Back on topic - Jewish youth will surplant their elders in time - but the poor reputation of the last generation will haunt them for the next generation - which is a shame...Israeli youth are hoping to break away from stern protectionism that in time brought them to a disadvantage - You would think the eleder Jewish leaders would put the youth and the future first - and the education of the future first?

But look at all those Russian aging immigrants that they brought down from the former soviet union - who now live in poverty in the "promised land" - seems they don't take care of their old or their young...could it be the secularization of Israel that has brought about this sick indifference?

[Post To The Left]

World Trade Center...that of course was staffed by 3000 Jews that they managed to kill -

Really everyone killed in the WTC attack was Jewish? I did not know that.