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Radical Teachers Push Children’s Books on ‘Palestine’

njjay38 Wrote: Jan 23, 2013 8:40 AM

The "centuries old" conflict betwen the Israelis and "Palestinians" actually began the day the "Palestinians" were invented, exactly 45 years and 7 months ago; the week Israel liberated Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan, which were known in those days not as "Palestine" but as Jordan, Egypt, and Syria respectively. Prior to that it would have been pretty difficult having a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, since before 1948, the term Palestinians referred to the Jews of the region.

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Radical Teachers Push Children’s Books on ‘Palestine’

The radical teachers group Rethinking Schools published an article in its Winter 2012-2013 magazine titled, “Books About Contemporary Palestine for Children,” EAGnews.org reported.

Before you go any further, here’s a hint about the nature of these recommended books: The editors of Rethinking Schools are anti-Israel and see nothing wrong with Palestinian terrorist attacks against the people of that nation.

The article’s author, San Jose State University Professor of Education Katharine Davies Samway, starts off by explaining how she volunteered to work in a booth at a recent local festival that was dedicated to drawing attention to “the impact...