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Henceforth, only praise for the Jewish state is allowed. Yet a passage in the "offending" textbook said the following:
"The Arabs call (the 1948) war the nakba - a war of catastrophe, loss and humiliation - and the Jews call it the Independence War."
Distorting and suppressing truth by "nakba" denial doesn't change it. It's the Palestinian "Holocaust," six months of horrific slaughter, mass atrocities, land theft, and displacement, turning historic Palestine into Israel, the crime and its importance never erased from the collective consciousness of new generations who teach it to their children.
In today's Israel, even the Oslo Accords have been erased, while "Holocaust" studies are expanded "to strengthen Jewish identity. According to Haaretz, "Now the school system's main civics textbook will be modified because it states that 'since its establishment, the State of Israel has engaged in a policy of discrimination against its Arab citizens.' "
In other words, truth and critical thought are anathema in Israeli schools, by order of the Netanyahu government's Zvi Zameret, the Education Ministry Pedagogic Secretariat head. As minister of censorship, he intends indoctrination and a "patronizing version of the past," insulting students by denying them real education, the kind Haaretz journalists and editorial writers still offer, but for how long given disturbing trends, covered in earlier articles accessed through the following links:
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