As I was researching my
post about how the German government paid for the Hashem Elementary School A in Gaza which that erases Israel in its very logo, I found a
video of a truly adorable girl who exuded happiness for attending that school standing in front of the sign that indicated the German funding.
I see this often as I browse around Palestinian school sites. While there is Jew-hatred - highlighted numerous times by MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch - there are also smiling, laughing kids. It is hard to understand how innocent children - children who know nothing about hate - can be taught Jew-hatred in their schools, especially schools that are funded by the West, whether UNRWA or otherwise.
I tweeted a screenshot of this girl, upset that she is going to get a Hamas-approved education.
That is the unfortunate trajectory of most kids who go to Gaza schools with the Hamas-approved curriculum.
On Saturday, the school proved me right again. It held an
assembly for the anniversary of the fire at Al Aqsa in 1969, falsely claiming that the fire was the first attempt by Zionist "
settlers" to destroy the mosque - the same libel that
Muslims have been pushing for a century.
It is pure incitement against Jews, being taught to innocent children.
Yet my pointing this out generated hundreds of angry comments, accusing me of being the hater, of being awful by inciting Israel against the girl, of justifying her future murder by the IDF, of ignoring how much Jews hate Arabs....the stupidity went on and on for days now, with people accusing me of things that were the exact opposite of what I actually said. Not one of the supposedly liberal, peace loving respondents admitted that these kids are taught hate (except for a few that said, of course, that Israel is worse.)
This morning an Arab TV correspondent in Washington called me "creepy and weird" - yet she is so deeply antisemitic that she has gone beyond the absurd Khazar theory and claimed that not only are Ashkenazic Jews not really Jews, but
even Mizrahi Jews aren't! Arab antisemitism is that endemic.
When I make a point that the haters cannot argue with, they really ramp up the attacks. When the attacks have no substance, I know I hit the bullseye.