Ted Belman
Israel just released a plan to reinforce Jewish and Zionist values in the educational system,
Haaretz complains that
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The Education Ministry’s plan for the coming school year does not include civics, democratic values or Jewish-Arab coexistence, according to copies circulated among principals.
It states schools’ two main objectives are to reinforce Jewish and Zionist values, and to improve scholastic achievements, and instructs principals how to fulfill these goals.
“This is education for Zionism and Judaism without education for democracy and peace, and it promotes ultra-nationalism,” said University of Haifa Prof. Gavriel Solomon, an Israel Prize winner in the field of education.
Educating for strengthening nationalism is important in times of war is imperative. Educating for multiculturalism is undermining of the national will.
“This is education for Zionism and Judaism without education for democracy and peace, and it promotes ultra-nationalism,” said University of Haifa Prof. Gavriel Solomon, an Israel Prize winner in the field of education.
Haaretz’ version of ‘peace’ and ‘democracy’ would be the death of the Jewish state… The schoolroom is the place where students should critically examine the calumny of the Zion-haters – and be armed against it …
‘Democratic values’ & ‘peace education’ are leftwing buzzwords for post-Zionism
and sometimes worse…
I thought the Haaretz people were all in England. What do they care about Israeli education? I would expect those Israelis who put forth the new plan, people who actually LIVE in Israel, are more genuinely concerned with the students’ welfare.