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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Anti-Israel-lessons-in-American-classrooms-337404
Anti-Israel Lessons in American Classrooms
(Jerusalem Post) Charles Jacobs - Students in Newton, Mass., were taught that Jews in Israel murder Palestinian women in jails. That "lesson" comes from the Arab World Studies Notebook, a work funded by the Saudis and condemned as propaganda by the American Jewish Committee. When concerned parents asked Newton's school committee to remove the text, they resisted for more than a year, defending the text as providing the "Arab point of view." Newton students are given PLO-produced maps to learn about the history of Israeli "occupation" of "Palestine." One of the maps labeled the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem as an "illegal Israeli settlement." The Newton school superintendent claimed the point of the map exercise was to demonstrate different perspectives, yet not one single map could be found representing the mainstream Jewish perspective. In New York, preparatory materials for the Regents exam falsely claim that Israel prevailed militarily in 1948 only due to strong support from the U.S. This is Arab propaganda, utilized to demonize America and explain the failure of the six Arab armies which attacked the tiny Jewish state. New York's Riverdale Fieldstone prep school held an Israel-Palestine day and, under the pretense of "evenhandedness," invited Rashid Khalidi and Tony Judt as speakers to represent "both sides" of the conflict. Both Khalidi and Judt believe the State of Israel should not exist. The writer is president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance in Boston.