‘You’re Literally Brainwashed’: Jewish-School Students Speak Out

https://www.readthemaple.com/youre-literally-brainwashed-jewish-school-students-speak-out/

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  1. Religious schools that brainwash people into joining a terrorist organization abroad. But somehow this is not only tolerated, it’s actually encouraged by our governments. 

  3. >A significant part of the “brainwashing” at the schools, former students said, was being told that Israel was their real home. Amir Fleischmann told me: “‘You’re only safe because the state exists, and the only place you’re really safe is there.’ That’s something they would say explicitly.”

    >Anna Lippman, 34, meanwhile, recounted a question that was often posed to her and other students in California: “We were always asked by our teachers, ‘Do you consider yourself an American Jew or a Jewish American?’” The correct answer according to the teachers, she said, was “American Jew”: “‘You’re Jewish first and foremost, and you just happen to live in America.’

    These schools really aren’t doing much to combat the dual loyalty or foreign threat conspiracy theories that are popular among nazis and other antisemites. Deliberately indoctrinating people to be insular and suspicious of your neighbors.

    >Appel, meanwhile, told me that the consequences of students attending these schools end up manifesting later on in life in shared environments where they’re exposed to non-Jews: “You see this a lot with the discourse about antisemitism on campus and Jews feeling safe on campus, and what does it come down to? It’s hearing perspectives that were withheld from you growing up and not being able to reconcile that with what you were told was the truth, and that we’re inherently victims.” 

    This is likely the majority of the supposed explosion of antisemitism since 2023, especially given all of the groups pushing this narrative very plainly consider any outward solidarity with Palestinians as antisemitic.

    >One former student told me: “The thing that I think about most is actually how traumatized these individuals are, how much they’ve absorbed and not processed the inter-generational trauma that makes it so that this is their behaviour in the face of a televised genocide.” But they added, “If you taught an entire generation of people about a genocide and those people can’t recognize another one, literally, what the fuck is hope for anything? […] I look at my own family — Holocaust survivor grandparents, my mom, who’s their descendant — and all of them are genocidal and they can’t see it.”

    According to mainstream media the people experiencing real trauma, real violence and real suffering are horrible genocidal terrorist monsters for using violence against their oppressors, meanwhile these people who are doing the oppressing or are supporting it are just defending themselves.

    I hate this shit so much.

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