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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• September 8, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The offensive
references to women, who are depicted as witches and demons in
Palestinian school textbooks, should not come as a surprise.
Recently, it was revealed here that several Palestinian lists
contesting the October 8 local elections have replaced the names and
photos of their female candidates with images of roses and pigeons.
- "This is
completely unacceptable because it presents women as the cause for
all disputes and evil in Palestinian society." — Lubna
Al-Ashkar of the Women's Technical Affairs Committee.
- "This will
create a negative image of women in the midst of our children -- one
that will be difficult to change in the future." — Amal
Khraisheh, chairwoman of the Palestinian Working Woman Society.
- It is true that
women as witches is a novel defamation for President Mahmoud Abbas
and his crew. Yet Palestinian Authority defamation of others,
including Israel, is far from new. This is stuff fed to Palestinian
schoolchildren: lies about history, lies about geography, and now
lies about Palestinian women.
Women as witches is a novel defamation for President
Mahmoud Abbas and his crew. Yet Palestinian Authority defamation of
others, including Israel, is far from new. Left: A depiction of a witch,
from a new Palestinian Authority school textbook. Right: A depiction of a
Jew as a demon, from a 2013 posting on the Fatah Facebook page.
Palestinian schoolchildren who returned to their schools last week
are being taught that women are witches and Tel Aviv is an Arab city.
They are also being exposed to maps that ignore Israel's existence.
Despite all Palestinian Authority (PA) claims to the contrary, then,
the new textbooks hardly promote peace and coexistence between
Palestinians and Israel.
A new school curriculum published by the PA last week has drawn
sharp criticism from many Palestinians, who say the textbooks demonize
women and contain "factual and historical" errors.
The controversial version of the curriculum for grades 1-4 was
launched by PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah during a ceremony in
Ramallah, on the eve of beginning of the new school year.
by Robbie Travers
• September 8, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Incitement to
murder Jews was described by the French press as "mild
mannered".
- In 2014,
supposed anti-Israel protesters attacked a Paris synagogue and trapped
the congregants inside. The attackers' chants apparently included
"Death to the Jews," "Murderous Israel," and
"One Jew, Some Jews, All Jews are Terrorists."
- The terrorist
attacks on Jews in France are the culmination of years of Jew-hatred
tolerated with little official criticism.
- With ISIS and
Hamas banners and flags flying, groups in Paris pledged the genocide
of the Jews with impunity. When chants of "Death to the
Jews," ring out publicly, is it surprising that people might
actually begin to think that killing Jews is just fine?
French soldiers guard a Jewish school in Strasbourg,
February 2015. (Image source: Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia Commons)
During the past 15 years, it is estimated that tens of thousands of
Jews have fled France.
Of these, approximately 40,000 have fled to Israel, according to
Israeli figures. Many thousands of others have fled to Canada, the United
Kingdom, and elsewhere. France is increasingly becoming a nation in which
it is no longer safe to be openly Jewish.
To explain why so many Jews are leaving Europe, it helps to
understand the increasingly toxic context developing in France for Jews.
Synagogues and Jewish schools across France are regularly guarded by
police officers and soldiers. Jews in Europe see their holy sites and
places of worship under threat.
In December 2015, 14 Jews were poisoned by a toxic substance which
had been smeared on to the keypad to access a Paris synagogue. No one was
killed by the poison, but "25 firemen rushed to the synagogue, where
they treated congregants and traced their condition to the daubed
lock."
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