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.
Here is an adorable girl in Gaza who is attending a school that teaches hate.
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) August 20, 2021
She doesn't hate Jews now. But in a few years she will be indoctrinated to want to give birth to martyrs. pic.twitter.com/ndRzhpgTR4
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.
