Hebrew U Prof: Israeli Textbooks Are Racist, But PA's Are Fine

Nurit Peled-Elchanan, a senior professor of language and education at Hebrew University, and a founder of the far-left Bereaved Families for Peace, has in recent weeks caused a stir overseas with a book she has written describing how Israel's education system “educates for apartheid.” Her book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education, is being translated into English, and presents findings from what she says are “years of research” showing Israel has portrayed Arabs as second-class people.

Peled-Elchanan says that she researched schoolbooks used in the Israeli school system between 1996 and 2009, and found, she said in an interview with the British Guardian, “dozens of examples of how children are prepared to justify war crimes in their army service.People don’t really know what their children are reading in textbooks,” she told the newspaper. “One question that bothers many people is -- how do you explain the cruel behavior of Israeli soldiers towards Palestinians, an indifference to human suffering, the inflicting of suffering.”

...she cites "Arabs wearing Ali Baba pants and shoes, kaffiyeh, a moustache and followed by a camel,” as a stereotype that appears in books. "Students leave high school knowing nothing about the history and borders of the state, and seeing Palestinians as intruders, and then have to go out and control and sometimes kill them. Furthermore, the country is very small, but education can fence off neighbors and prevent them from having any real contact."

In general, she said, "Arabs and Palestinians don't do much in Israeli school books except for lurking, attacking in all sorts of ways and multiplying. The few transitive verbs I came across regarding this unanimous group of people included 'poison', 'attack', 'refuse', 'evade tax payment' and 'thank Israel for the progress it has brought into their life'."

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I'm sorry for the loss of her daughter at the behest of an arab terrorist. Myself, I'd place the blame at the feet of the palestinian Muslim barbarian that killed herdaughter at the tender age of 13, but that's just me.

As to

My little girl was murdered because she was an Israeli by a young man who was humiliated, oppressed and desperate to the point of suicide and murder and inhumanity, just because he was a Palestinian. There is no basic moral difference between the soldier at the checkpoint who prevents a woman who is having a baby from going through, causing her to lose the baby, and the man who killed my daughter. And just as my daughter was a victim [of the occupation], so was he

I'm unaware of members of the IDF blowing themselves up to kill palestinian civilians. In fact I don't believe they kill palestinian civilians deliberately outside combat zones, which I acknowledge is everywhere in Israel and the territories, at all.

Which is quite different than the three Hamas bombers who killed her child. Five total, two other 14 year olds, including an American to the credit of the martyrs. Many injured. The family of the American victim, along with surviving victims, won a $250 million or so judgement against the peaceful nation of Iran. It's resulted in an interesting court case in which the successful victims have attempted to force the sale of Persian (that's before Persia decided they were Aryans, Iran, in honor of the supreme Aryan) artifacts held by the Field Museum and the University of Chicago. Which Iran, formerly Persia, claim are really theirs. But not theirs if creditors wish to attach them. I love lawyers.

And should anyond decide to browse the web for the incident, the Ben Yehuda Street bombings, you're looking for the 1997 bombing. The peaceful ones have accomplished about a dozen bombings of civilians on Ben Yehuda Street since statehood.

Did I call them barbarians, apologies to Atilla.

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