Posted on 11/22/2016 11:19:56 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
On Friday morning, September 18, 2015, the third grade classes at the Beverly J. Martin School in Ithaca, NY, heard a presentation on human rights by Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi and local anti-Israel activists, led by Ariel Gold.
In fact,...the Tamimi event was an anti-Israel propaganda event targeting young children, and as we just learned, caused at least one student to suffer nightmares....
Initially, the principal of the elementary school, Susan Eschbach, also attempted to downplay the significance of the Tamimi event. In a September 22, 2015, statement to the school community Eschbach denied there was anything improper...
The statement from Eschbach to the community was rebutted, in substance, when Superintendent of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD), Dr. Luvelle Brown, later released a statement denouncing the event, Superintendent: Third Grade event politically skewed, inflammatory against Israel...both the activists and the teacher leading the discussion skewed the conversation against Israel to the extent that one or more students were incited to express hatred of Israel....
Contrary to the rosy and positive view of the event presented by Gold and Eschbach, it turns out that a parent had complained to the school that his child was suffering from nightmares as a result of the Tamimi Event....
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
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Ihica!
Boulder comes in a close second (finished law school there, after a year at Northwestern. Fell in love with the mountains....)
Well, there is always “Madtown,” a.k.a . Madison WI, or pretty much most college towns in the US.
“Palestinians” are Syrians, usually. Sometimes Lebanese. Ask a “Palestinian” where he or she was BORN and you get crickets. They rarely know a thing about Israel or pacific geography other than “the Jews took my land - his land - everyone’s land...”
(specific) geography
Uh?... Lesbian?
By the way, it is our family tradition to watch that movie every Christmas season. That and the movie “Mixed Nuts”.
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