How pro-Hamas rhetoric infected US high schools
“He alone who owns the youth, gains the future.” (Adolph Hitler, 1935)
We are witness today to anti-Israel and antisemitic protests on college campuses, sometimes violent, always repulsive.
Their rants are passionate, intense, and filled with hate … and misinformation.
Questions are being asked: “How did we get to this point?” “Did it start in college?” Shockingly, the answer is no. The indoctrination begins far earlier … in high schools.
As a parent, are you aware of what your child is being taught? Have you read their textbooks or attended a school board meeting?
Most have not — I certainly did not.
This is why so many families would be surprised to learn that our high schools have become centers of pro-Islamist indoctrination masquerading as education.
CON’T READING MY ARTICLE IN THE NY POST HERE
*For a full explanation of the textbook examples, read below.
World History: Patterns of Interaction (McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company 2009): page 1019…“While the United Nations granted the Palestinians their own homeland, the Israelis seized most of that land, including the West Bank and Gaza, during its various wars.”
This is false. In 1948 the United Nations partitioned Palestine according to UN Resolution 181. A small portion became the Jewish nation of Israel. At that time, the West Bank was controlled by Jordan and Gaza was controlled by Egypt. 181 called for Jerusalem to be an open city. Arabs never, even to this day, accepted that partition. In fact, Jerusalem fell under Jordanian control where Jews were not permitted to enter or worship. After the 1967 war, it was liberated by Israelis and once again became an open city.
There have been several wars, all started by Arab nations. All lost by Arab nations. Currently, the West Bank (governed by the PLO) and Gaza (governed by Hamas) are free from Israeli control. Over the last 75 years, in fact, Israel has given back land it has won during Arab initiated wars. The hope was, “land for peace.”
World History: Patterns of Interaction (McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company 2009): page 270… “Because the Qur’an forbade forced conversion, Muslims allowed conquered peoples to follow their own religion.”
This is false. Those who were conquered by the Muslim empire became its citizens. Forced conversions were routine. The only other choices were exile, death or a heavy tax.
World History: Patterns of Interaction (McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company 2009): page 168… “Although the exact date is uncertain, historians believe that sometime around 6 to 4 b.c., a Jew named Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea. Jesus was raised in the village of Nazareth in northern Palestine.”
This statement is misleading. If Jesus was born between 4 and 6 b.c. then every calendar has been wrong for the last 2,100 years. Worse however, is the statement that he was raised in “northern Palestestine.” It implies that Jesus was a Palestinian when in fact he was born in Bethlehem, a town in Judea. It is impossible for him to have been a Palestinian, when the region of Palestine did not exist during his life.
World History: Patterns of Interaction (McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company 2009): page 227…“Based on the teachings of Jesus and a belief in one God — monotheism — Christianity began in Palestine about a.d. 30.”
Once again, this is an attempt to associate the birth of Christianity with Palestine when Palestine did not exist. The region was the Jewish nation of Judea. The region became known as Palestine in 135 a.d. when it was renamed by the Romans.
If you have comments, feel free to leave them in the comments section in the NY Post article.
