“This blood libel,” said Jacobs, “the ‘Jew-as-Nazi’ lie is the ‘narrative’ that drives Jew-hatred around the world and here you are teaching this to our children.”
Yes, and it’s based on “Palestinian” victimhood propaganda that all too often features manufactured IDF atrocities that never actually took place.
“Jewish Parents Outraged at anti-Semitic All-Day Event at Newton North High: Turmoil at School Board Meeting,” Americans for Peace and Tolerance, June 13, 2018 (thanks to Richard):
Angry parents and citizens dominated the first hour of a scheduled Newton Public School board meeting on Monday night, in an effort to show their disgust and rage at the continued teaching of bias against Israel that has been the focus of controversy in this leafy, heavily Jewish suburb for more than 5 years.
Waving signs of “Fire Fleishman!” and “Replace Goldman!”, around 70 angry citizens protested the mistreatment of the Jewish community by city officials the evening of June 11.
Ruth Goldman, Chair of the Committee, restricted discussion of the controversy to only 7 speakers from among those who came to protest the on-going defamation of Israel and Jews in Newton’s school rooms. More than 15 had signed up to speak.
Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, reminded the board that Mayor Ruthanne Fuller had promised the Jewish community “transparency” in what is being taught at the schools, but she has not delivered. This, after the school system was forced to remove from its curriculum the Arab World Studies Notebook, which falsely taught students that Jews torture and murder Arab women in Israeli prisons; and after the School Superintendent David Fleishman had promised Jewish community leaders this past October that he would remove the schools’ entire World History section on the Middle East until scholarly, vetted material was found to replace it. Instead, Jacobs said, Fleishman broke that promise and continued to use material that was pro-Arab, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic.
Most of the anger was directed at a May 2 all-day event at Newton North High School called Middle East Day, during which Electronic Intifada proprietor Ali Abunimah’s non-profit group screened several anti-Semitic films for the Newton North students. One film, Ismail, grotesquely aped the opening scene of Schindler’s List, except with actors playing Jewish soldiers as the Nazis, and Palestinians as the Jews. “This blood libel,” said Jacobs, “the ‘Jew-as-Nazi’ lie is the ‘narrative’ that drives Jew-hatred around the world and here you are teaching this to our children.”
That very morning, one very liberal Jewish group — the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) — abandoned its six-year-long denial and “hands-off” posture in this dispute and joined Boston’s ADL to send a harshly-worded letter to Superintendent Fleishman demanding to know precisely what happened on May 2 and what was taught to the student assembly and how it happened.
Tom Mountain, Chairman of the Newton Republican Committee and father of a student in the Newton school system, thundered his disgust at the School Committee’s betrayal of the schools’ Jewish students, and the Jewish community in general. He directly demanded the dismissal of Superintendent Fleishman and asked, rather loudly, what sort of Jew could stonewall efforts to protect teenagers, mostly Jewish, from being taught rabid anti-Jewish propaganda.
Aaron Shneider, a new college graduate and alumnus of the Newton school system himself, railed at the committee, spoke of how the system had betrayed him, and that if everyone wants to speak of “balance,” then pro-Muslim and anti-Israel is hardly “balance” in educational presentation….
Voytek Gagalka says
When also non-Jewish parents will start to be outraged as well, perhaps things will change…
Dianne Cornett says
Amen, my Mother taught me and my brother’s to love and pray for the Jewish people, years ago. I still pray for Israel, the Jews, and specifically for Jerusalem, often.
gravenimage says
I’m not Jewish, and I’m outraged.
revereridesagain says
This disgraceful situation has been going on in Newton for years. Not just in that town, in several other affluent “Marxachusetts” ones — including Lexington — but Newton has been especially stubborn about coddling and making excuses for this behavior. Children in that school system are being indoctrinated in anti-Semitism. Even in the face of repeated protests and castigation by people such as Charles Jacobs, a true American hero who actually went to Sudan with Christian Solidarity International some years back and helped to redeem (ransom) Africans enslaved by Muslims.
Paul says
Seriously? It’s the Jewish community that has needed to wake up. The reason it’s gotten the Israel bashing has gotten this bad is because the Jewish community has tolerated it for so long. Jews wake up!
Richard says
Excuse me, but are not Arabs Semites?
Westman says
It seems that when warfare involved human muscle, “Allah’s army”, and Islam, made great progress through brutality. Persecuting Jews, due to lower numbers, was a sideline.
Now that warfare depends on technology and understanding, “Allah” has not been so inshullah(willing) to take on Western infidels because “he” loses. The most humiliating events for “Allah” has been defeat while trying to annihilate Israel. “He” is now trying to get enough allies and spread animosity toward Jews with lies in hopes of winning and has fooled many dhimmis.
Of course, “He”, Muhammad’s talking head giving the convenient revelations, never existed. It was a stroke of entrepreneurial genius for Muhammad to recognize that his people had been “written out” of the Bible and “write” them into his own revelations, as the chosen people, and add fractured Bible stories to make it seem more authentic.
“…why the wimpy deity who hates Jews with a passion needs Muslims to issue blood libels?
He doesn’t since Allah is a fabrication. It’s Muhammad’s hatred of Jews, echoing down the corridor of time within the pages of the Quran, that drives the persecution of Jews by Islam.
KJW says
I saw someone write this quote:
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” – Anne Lenore
ElderlyZionist says
The German Jew-hater Wilhelm Marr coined the word ‘antisemitismus’ in 1881 as a euphemism for his political program of driving Jews out of the economy, out of public life, and out of Europe. Antisemitism means persecuting Jews, that’s what it’s always meant, that’s all it means. It has nothing to do with Arabs. Now you know.
del says
After typing most of this, I see that ElderlyZionist answered your question…
The phrase, “anti-semitism”, or less incorrectly, antisemitism, does not mean, “against semites”. It is rather a 19th century German-origin euphemistic substitute for “Jew-hatred”, judenhass. Here is a surprisingly correct (presumably soon to be edited in order to mislead) wikipedia paragraph:
“The root word Semite gives the false impression that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people, e.g., including Arabs and Assyrians. The compound word antisemite was popularized in Germany in 1879[7] as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (“Jew-hatred”),[8][9][10][11][12] and has been its common use since then.[13][14]”
gravenimage says
Muslims hate Jews. Playing word games does not change that.
Westman says
True. It’s Muhammad’s jealousy and hatred of Jews, planted in the Quran, that flows in Islam and historically precedes any modern Western words to describe it. One would imagine that it was a major factor in Hitler’s recognition of Islam as a fellow traveler.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Westman.
J D S says
Sure their allah”Satan” hates Jews Jay Boo.
As far as Palestine goes that land was given to the JEWS by God it belongs to them and only them…PALESTINIANS should be Jews not a wandering mixture of Muslim terrorist Arab, nomad Bedouin tent dwellers…I may have grouped too many here.
Walter Sieruk says
This terrible affront of an event at an American public high school is a strong reminder of the wisdom spoken in a speech by a former US President, William Howard Taft, who had declared “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Norger says
Very troubling that this could happen in Newton, of all places. Much like Muslim students successfully issuing a fatwa against Ayan Hirsi Ali at Brandeis, of all places.
somehistory says
In a community that is “heavily Jewish,” and many of those in positions of power having Jewish names, the school is teaching the students to hate Jews by the telling of outright lies.
It would not be unexpected if the community was heavily moslim and those in positions of power all had moslim names for the students to be taught lies.
This means that those of Jewish heritage are teaching children of Jewish heritage to hate…their own heritage by telling the students lies.
How very disgusting. Great must be their own self-hatred. Much like Judas who cut his own throat of salvation by betraying Jesus Christ for a few pieces of silver.
One should ask: What profit is there in this for those pushing the lies against the Jewish people and Israel?
TL says
“those of Jewish heritage are teaching children of Jewish heritage to hate…their own heritage by telling the students lies”?
Well, well, let’s give three cheers for irony.
P.S. Stop being so naïve about the poor, poor Jews. This episode at Newton North High wouldn’t be the first time that some shifty, slithering Jews arranged persecution against Jews to encourage them to relocate. For example, the father of B. Netanyahu indicated in his book about the origins of the Spanish inquisition that Jews were suspect in that persecution, too. And like now, the Jews arranged events to make it appear that the Jews are innocent.
somehistory says
Being naive, which isn’t the case…is so much better than being evil and a liar…whatever ones’ background.
Being moral, a person of integrity, and honesty counts with the One Who judges.
Your opinion is …your opinion.
gravenimage says
The vile TL wrote:
“those of Jewish heritage are teaching children of Jewish heritage to hate…their own heritage by telling the students lies”?
Well, well, let’s give three cheers for irony.
P.S. Stop being so naïve about the poor, poor Jews. This episode at Newton North High wouldn’t be the first time that some shifty, slithering Jews arranged persecution against Jews to encourage them to relocate. For example, the father of B. Netanyahu indicated in his book about the origins of the Spanish inquisition that Jews were suspect in that persecution, too. And like now, the Jews arranged events to make it appear that the Jews are innocent…
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Now the vicious Fascist TL–and this is *quite* literal; he is a great defender of Hitler and the Nazis–is claiming that Jews not only deserve to be persecuted, but themselves set if up that way.
I suppose that their arranging Muslims to commit genocide against them is the ultimate example…sarc/off
Really, why doesn’t TL just convert to Islam now?
Granddaddy says
Hello TL. This is interesting. The Jews don’t appear to have done anything wrong in this case, except (as you suggest) maybe they have defamed themselves. That may be true, or maybe not. But we don’t know. So it hardly seems a reason to accuse the Jews. But just to get it out of the way, let’s say it’s true, let’s say they have done what you suggest they did. Let’s further suppose that all 18M Jews in the world (that’s the going estimate right now, that there are only about 18M Jews left alive in the World) — let’s suppose that all 18M Jews are just as you suggest also: conniving liars stirring up sympathy for themselves by falsely accusing their enemies of Jew-hatred so they can all move away somewhere to stir up more justly deserved hatred. So let’s say they all die off (just to keep it simple). All 18M of them. This appears to be a very possible possibility. Because of the universal assumption of infallibility of all Jew-haters everywhere, present but unstated: Everybody, even Jews, should hate Jews. We don’t really need a reason to hate Jews, but if we want one we can always find it in the Quran. So tell me (because this is not in the Quran and Jesus never talks about it): When all the Jews in the World are dead, who will there be to hate?
It seems more logical to me that we should all, instead of hating the Jews, love them, just to keep them around. That way there would be more Jews to hate. Makes sense to me.
WPM says
TL logic Islam hates Jews because Jews want to hated by Islam ,nothing to do with Koran ,Hadiths, or Mohammad stating Jews are the the worst of creatures .That Moslems should never take Jews as friends, that Moslem are always superior to Jews. All the killing and chasing Jews from most lands in the Middle East over the last 1400 years .The loud proclaiming Jews run the world by Moslems ,with no evidence of this especial in countries like China , Japan, Korea , most of Asian including India that have near zero Jews or Jewish influence. Yes look at all the Jews that are the leaders of the world ,what nonsense. Its not the bully Islam that hates and pushes everyone around ,it is the small number 18 million Jews in the world .Yes Jews “arrange events” like they arranged Hitler to kill over 3 million of them to push their cause??They arrange Mohammed to establish a religion to push them to no longer live in most middle eastern countries where they lived for thousands of years.TL if you are not Islamic, you are Islamic lover for pushing the Jews run the world lie.
gravenimage says
Massachusetts: Public high school hosts anti-Semitic all-day event featuring “Palestinian” propaganda
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*Repulsive*. Write this school and complain.
Lydia Church says
Calling victims villains and villains victims seems to be the mode of the times!
Yohanan says
Jews who identify with anti-Jewish haters and who negate the right of the State of Israel to exist are deluded and in denial about anti-semitism and Islamic supremacism. Their criticism of Israel is far different than constructive and objective. On Jewish self-hatred, on see wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_Jew
Bonnie Lorangerhe says
and liberals too
Proud Anti-Islam says
It is no wonder why Massachusetts public education system is so very corrupt and very ultra-left wing liberal. I am a terrible victim of Massachusetts public education and one of the cities is Lynn. Lynn has a very bad public school system.
terry says
The more Jew hate i see from racist muslims, the more i support the Jews.
Jew hate is the crux of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians.
gravenimage says
+1
tgusa says
The maniacal US left have become a grave threat to the health, welfare and safety of the citizens of communities all across the USA. Never forget, if you don’t support and engage in their community annihilation you are a nazi as well!
underbed cat says
Maybe/ just an opinion or guess, the instructor wanted to do his part in training the “resistance” in a classroom full of young minds to imprint his message….to help his “resistance” party.of the democratic far left. and support of Hamas and never thought it could actually be a problem before their college years. Schools systems, teacher unions I think are very liberal..democrats,” freedom and justice” party many seemed to criticize the new embassy, election, immigration reform you name it. Future voters being formed. Maybe there should be a date of the counter view. and information about the propaganda techniques used by Hamas,the history of the Jewish people in the middle east…the instructor would be wise if he arranged it or if he is gone someone should but that could be more of a problem. If I were a parent I might worry this instructor has converted and concerned with studen safety. Of course then there is NY. and the parades…..