Scottish school textbook teaches that Israel is ‘apartheid, colonial regime’

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/scottish-school-textbook-teaches-that-israel-is-apartheid-colonial-regime-cqf3pfo5

Posted by Thuuursty

18 comments

  1. Yikes

    I’m expecting them to say that Hamas isn’t a terror group next.

  2. I mean I learned about apartheid in South Africa in school.

  3. I mean, it is. Should kids not learn about Apartheid South Africa either?

  4. Until Israel removes its settlers from the West Bank, it is, by all meaningful definitions, an apartheid, colonial regime.

  6. If it meets the accepted definition of an apartheid state and not just being called that by someone with a certain agenda then I’d don’t see the issue.

  7. Sky News had the cattle grid and fenced off pavements on one of their reports, creepy checkpoints on young female students and open intimidation, they are hardly hiding it. Sky News too.

  8. Because it is. I’ve been there and I’ve seen it first hand.

  10. Israel being an apartheid has always been up for debate.

    Apartheid is understood by some as what you do to your OWN citizens. If Israel is an occupying force, it’s not an apartheid.

  11. Whatever else you think about Israel, the phrase:

    “antisemitism is a European phenomenon” 

    Is truly extraordinary.

  12. Israel is the most forward thinking nation on the planet I wish other countries was this honest.

  13. Quite apart from the central claim of the headline, which to me seems perfectly valid, the “complaints” listed in this article include that, for example, a Palestinian girl is quoted on an EIS website as saying that IDF soldiers don’t always shoot the bad people, they sometimes shoot the good people (which, depending on your definition of “good”, and bearing in mind this is a child speaking – so could stretch to include perfectly innocent bystanders – is absolutely correct), and that a Jewish child was bullied after their class was shown a CBBC segment on the subject of the conflict.

    What does that latter claim have to do with EIS or teaching in Scotland? Is it the position of the JC that *CBBC* is anti semitic in some way? Are they implying that whoever was teaching the class in some way was trying to encourage or condone bullying of Jewish pupils?

    This is a hysterical article. It’s akin to claiming The Specials are racist for the song Free Nelson Mandela.

  16. If Isreal is then what are the other Arab states doing?

  17. >Another, non-EIS resource promoted by a Scottish local authority says “antisemitism is a European phenomenon”

    The number of pogroms in the Middle East, Hamas, and the times Israel has faced wars where a loss means destruction show just how inaccurate that is.

    > and accuses Israel’s “apartheid and settler colonial regime” of “genocide”.

    For people who claim to care about genocide, the double standards shown mean that it is a realistic possibility their materials refuse to hold Hamas to a similar level of scrutiny. Given the number of inaccurate claims, combined with the bias those claims show, they have not established themselves as a credible source and because of that, I can’t avoid considering points like that.

    >[Activity 3].

    This map is blatant propaganda. It assumed that every single piece of land now controlled by someone who’s Jewish was controlled by Palestinians, and it ignores how sparsely populated and/or densely populated it was, or land which was controlled by the British mandatory government. It also ignores how the reason Israeli authorities accepted the 1947 partition plan. Further, Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan the West Bank from the end of the 1948-1949 Arab Israeli war to the Six Day War in 1967. It wasn’t Palestinian land.

    >[Fact Cards]

    I’d like to know what source they used to say Israel was a leading arms exporter, given how the US is by far the largest, with Russia and France competing for an incredibly distant second place.

    Given all of that, it’s a fair assumption to make that those materials contain more double standards, and are almost certainly incredibly disproportionate in their criticism of Israel.

    This is nothing more than an attempt to spread pro-Palestinian propaganda to children who lack the ability to critically examine what they are being shown.

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