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Yes, Zionist schools should teach the Palestinian narrative - but not this waynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Sep 04:45 AM Sabrina Miller writes i Like   Tweet   Yes, Zionist schools should teach the Palestinian narrative - but not this way noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Sep 04:45 AM Sabrina Miller writes in TheJC about how Jewish children aren't taught enough about Israel and Zionism to be well prepared when they go to campus. She states the problem well. But her suggested solution is not the way to deal with it. Miller suggests that groups that are critical of Israel be invited to lecture the kids on their viewpoint, and therefore muddy the waters. I've said for a long time that Jewish schools must teach the Palestinian narrative - from the perspective of showing why it is wrong. As I wrote in 2010 (somewhat modified here): It seems to me that only one thing needs to be taught to Jewish students: the truth. If Jewish schools completely ignore talking about some 600,000 Palestinian Arabs having left their homes, some of them (but far from the majority) forced out by the Haganah and IZL, they are failing. If they teach the skewed Palestinian Arab narrative of forced dispossession and unending massacres, they are failing worse. Yes, teach the Nakba - but teach what really happened. Of course it was a catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of people, but the continuing catastrophe...Read More Elder Comix: How Israel haters argue noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Sep 02:30 PM They never think they lose the arguments - they just throw something else at you. The USS Liberty is another favorite. (Here is my debunking of the "dancing Israelis" lie.) * * * * * * ...Read More 09/26 Links: Twenty Years After Durban, What We Still Get Wrong About Left-Wing Antisemitism; Madrid Assembly Officially Adopts IHRA Definition of Antisemitism noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 26 Sep 12:19 PM From Ian: Twenty Years After Durban, What We Still Get Wrong About Left-Wing Antisemitism Like all intellectual monopolies, postcolonialism denies the validity of other explanations and in its certitude becomes an illiberal and dangerous source of extremism and hate. Of course, the ideology contains a modicum of truth — the horrors of colonialism do explain some of today's global disparities. The proponents of postcolonialism, however, completely paper over the highly successful Asian countries that were once colonies, and what that says about the long-term impact of colonial rule. In simplistically dividing the world into oppressors and oppressed, postcolonialism holds successful nations morally culpable and struggling nations morally pure. And in insisting on this perverse binary, the ideology enables the expression of the usual resentment and ill-will toward Jews and Israel, both of which have succeeded in their respective environments. Talking about the antisemitism at Durban without reference to postcolonialist ideology is like talking about the attacks of Sept. 11 without reference to extreme Islamist ideology. We should have grasped it then. "It's the ideology, stupid." Fast-forward 20 years, and we see the same political dynamic not in a remote international conference of NGOs and diplomats, but in myriad mainstream American institutions...Read More Will "human rights groups" condemn Iraq's arrest warrants towards those who want peace with Israel? noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Sep 09:45 AM There were some dramatic activities this weekend in Kurdistan. At the "Conference for Peace and Reclamation," held in Erbil and organized by the New York-based Center for Peace Communications, over 300 participants called for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords and to make peace with Israel, a country it has been officially at war with since 1948. Reaction was swift. Iraq's federal government on Saturday rejected the conference as an "illegal meeting." Today, Iraq started issuing arrest warrants against participants. Already, one prominent participant, Wisam al Hardan, has disowned the statement he signed, claiming he didn't read it carefully - even though he had written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Friday calling for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords. He is clearly frightened of being arrested and tortured for...Read More Now Syria is the country trying to "normalize" relations with Arab countries! noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Sep 07:30 AM Arabic media are reporting that Syria is on a charm offensive in the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings in New York, trying to re-establish its relationships with its fellow Arab countries. The irony is that Israel has had a better relationship with many Arab regimes than Syria has. The Palestinian Authority never severed its relations with Syria in light of its atrocities in its civil war, and Syrian foreign minister Faisal Miqdad met Saturday with Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki, saying that the Palestinian cause "will remain the central issue of the Arab people." Miqdad also met with his Tunisian and Egyptian counterparts over the weekend. This was the first official contact between Egypt and Syria in ten years. It is almost jarring to read the word "normalization" in Arab media and have it not referring to Israel. * * * * * * ...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company