"When I talk in civics class about the Arab minority, and about its uniqueness in being a majority that became a minority, my students argue and say it's not true that they were a majority. When I go to the history teacher and ask her why the students don't know that in 1947 there was a certain number of Arabs here, and in 1948 there was a different number, she becomes evasive and says it's not part of the curriculum...
Miriam Darmoni-Sharvit, Israeli civics teacher.
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As I said before, the colonial project seeps through all of the institutions which just teach lies.
ReplyDelete<span>Actually I don't find it amazing anymore that so many Israelis are so ignorant regarding this issue. If schools aren't doing the job they're meant to no wonder they end up with lobotomy material for citizens, indifferent to ethnic cleansing and genocide when they're not doing just that....</span>
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