How Qatari Terrorist Funders Get U.S. Public Schools To Teach Anti-Jew Propaganda

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Last month, Geller Report reported on a petition filed by hundreds of Newton residents, demanding that its School Committee take measures to address and repair damage caused by its widely publicized flawed curriculum on the Middle East and world religions. Petitioners were concerned about the use of Islam-biased, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel instructional materials, and by the failure of Newton’s public schools to teach students objectively and without proselytizing or propaganda.

This is going on in public schools across America. And now we discover that behind it all is the hidden hand of Qatar, promoter of Al Jazeera, the jihad propaganda network, and supporter of ISIS and Hamas. Now it is clear why, in our public schools, the role of Islam in the world — creed apartheid, Islamic supremacism, gender apartheid,  Islamic misogyny, cultural annihilation, enslavement and the hundreds of millions of victims of jihadi wars — is scrubbed and whitewashed.

I address this issue in depth in my 2011 book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Those of us who warned of this for years were mocked, smeared and defamed as “conspiracy theorists” up until American schoolchildren were coming home reciting the shahada and praising jihad in the cause of Islam. All, as it turns out, paid for by Qatar.

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“How Foreign Terrorist Funders Get U.S. Public Schools To Teach Anti-Jew Propaganda,” by Ilya Feoktistov, The Federalist, October 3, 2018 (thanks to Christian):

The ruling dynasty of Qatar, the house of Al Thani, invests its massive fossil fuel profits to promote its political and theological agenda around the world. It invests in major Western properties, Hollywood studios like Miramax, global news broadcasters like Al Jazeera, terror organizations like ISIS and Hamas, and, most curiously, in American K-12 education.

The Qataris, according to the Wall Street Journal, are spending millions to influence what American educators teach in their classrooms; and it has recently emerged that one of their investments is behind a roiling controversy in the Boston suburb of Newton.

For more than six years, parents and citizens in Newton have been complaining that their city’s high school world history curriculum is biased against Israel to the point of being anti-Semitic. Newton Superintendent of Schools David Fleishman promised the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of New England last year that he would remove and replace the bigoted curriculum with vetted scholarly materials, but public records requests revealed that biased, anti-Semitic, and false materials continued to be taught.

Since Fleishman’s broken promise, the biased teaching at Newton schools has gotten worse. In August, The Federalist broke the story of how a Newton history teacher, David Bedar, plotted with fellow teachers over email to harass, bully, and “call out” conservative students in the classroom, admitting to acting as a “liberal propagandist” in the classroom. Further public records requests show that Bedar is also quite literally a trained propagandist for Qatar. He is working on behalf of a foreign petro-theocracy to teach anti-Semitic lies to American children.

A Qatari-Funded U.S. Teacher Influence Fund

Last year, Bedar attended a five-day summer teacher training course on how to teach about “the dynamics of the Middle East,” provided by a Massachusetts-based organization called Primary Source. Primary Source claims to work “to advance global and cultural learning in schools,” and has partnerships with more than 50 schools and school districts in New England.

It is funded by four foundations. Two are Massachusetts government agencies, the Mass Cultural Council and Mass Humanities. The third, the Cummings Foundation, is one of the largest private foundations in New England. The fourth is Qatar Foundation International (QFI), an arm of the Qatari ruling family’s Qatar Foundation. Through QFI since 2009, according to the Wall Street Journal, Qatar’s Al Thanis have given more than $30 million directly to American K-12 public schools, and an untold amount to teacher training outfits like Primary Source.

To get a sense of the Qatar Foundation’s perspective on things, it is helpful to know that recipients of its largesse include hate preachers who spew ISIS-style ideology, Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader and so-called “Theologian of Terror” Yusuf Qaradawi, as well as the Hamas politburo chairman, Ismail Haniyeh.

As Somali-American scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution: “Powerful foundations such as the Qatar Foundation continue to grant financial support and legitimacy to radical Islamic ideology around the world.”

They also just might be training your kid’s history teacher without your knowledge. In this age of concern over foreign influence on American politics, Al Jazeera videos are slapped with this warning label on YouTube: “Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government.” Primary Source makes no such disclaimer for its training materials, and neither do the teachers who use them.

Publicly Funded Anti-Semite Indoctrination

Bedar teaches a senior-level elective on the modern history of the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America at Newton North High School. The course includes an extensive unit on the history of the Arab-Israel conflict, which I obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records Law.

Anti-Semitism, which in its contemporary form treats the Jewish state differently than any other nation state, is alive and well in Bedar’s course. For example, Bedar asks students if the Jews should have a state. The question is worded like this: “What are the pros and cons to the one and two-state solutions?”

A “one state solution,” of course, would eliminate the world’s only Jewish state. Among all peoples, only the Jewish right of self-determination is up for debate in Bedar’s classroom. Nowhere are students asked, “Given the Holocaust, should the German people have their own state?” Neither do the Chinese nor the Sudanese, nor any other people, have their right to self-determination questioned, even given horrifically bad behavior.

“Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” fits the internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism promulgated by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, of which the United States and most European nations are members. Likewise, the anti-Semitism definition includes “[a]pplying double standards [to Israel] not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.” Bedar’s course does both.

The course includes a PowerPoint presentation on the Arab Israeli conflict, which Bedar fills with carefully phrased false assertions like: “Critics of Zionism view it as a colonialist, racist and exceptionalist ideology that led advocates to violence during Mandatory Palestine, followed by the exodus of Palestinians.”

While claiming to provide all perspectives, Bedar never provides similarly critical thoughts about the ideology of Israel’s enemies, such as: “Critics of Islamist supremacism say that it is the true motivating force of the Arab assault on Israel, which hides under the cloak of Palestinian nationalism and a dispute over land.” “Religious battle? No. A political struggle over land and competing national aspirations,” proclaims Bedar on one of his PowerPoint slides with uncritical certitude over this very arguable proposition.

Not Only Bigoted But False

Bedar’s course materials are as bigoted as they are substandard. Here’s a peculiar negative side-effect of teacher trainings from unaccountable private groups like Primary Source: Teachers like Bedar get the idea that completing a week-long summer seminar gives them the competence to “Google up” a curriculum of their own, as opposed to teaching “by the book.” The results, at least in Bedar’s case, are dilettantish.

For example, the above anti-Semitic quote comparing Zionism to racism is directly cribbed, without attribution, from the Wikipedia entry on Zionism. A word for advice to Bedar’s students preparing for college: Never crib from Wikipedia without attribution, especially not from its infamously biased articles on current controversial topics.

What Bedar presents as the claims of Israel’s critics are usually ad hominem insults that corrupt the meanings of words and lack all evidence.

The message conveyed in Bedar’s PowerPoint—that Zionism is racism—represents one of three general propaganda techniques Bedar uses to sneak in lies under the guise of critical thinking. This first technique consists of the general formula: “Supporters of Israel/Zionism say X but critics of Israel/Zionism say Y.”

What Bedar presents as the claims of Israel’s supporters are generally objective historical facts, like: “Advocates of Zionism view it as a national liberation movement for the repatriation of a persecuted people residing as minorities in a variety of nations to their ancestral homeland.” But what Bedar presents as the claims of Israel’s critics are usually ad hominem insults that corrupt the meanings of words and lack all evidence, such as the “Zionism is racism” claim.

The second propaganda technique Bedar uses to mis-educate his students is the similar but even more insidious “Israeli perspective versus Palestinian perspective” ploy. It seems like a fine exercise in critical thinking and the balancing of competing viewpoints, but the “Israeli perspective” Bedar presents is a fringe left-wing one, while the “Palestinian perspective” is less history than histrionics.

Here’s Bedar’s “Israeli perspective”: “During the war [of Israeli independence] there were a number of massacres, robbery and rape by Jewish fighters.” His “Palestinian perspective”? The Palestinians say they “had been exposed to the most barbaric kinds of torture and immoral and inhuman practices” by Jewish fighters.

Both statements are highly misleading. The first is neither a mainstream Israeli perspective nor a factual one, while the second is hysteric slander. Arab violence, on the other hand, is given the opposite propaganda treatment. According to Bedar’s “Israeli Perspective,” the Arab anti-Semitic orgies of slaughter prior to Israel’s independence are characterized antiseptically as “[t]he riots of 1920, 1929 and 1936,” and the Arab leaders who instigated them as simply “unscrupulous.”

And the “Palestinian perspective” that Bedar teachers Newton public school students on these slaughters is akin to genocide denial and justification: “All the disturbances were justified and spontaneous revolts by the Palestinian people against the British/Zionist alliance and increasing immigration.”

Your Religion Is What Its Enemies Say It Is

In Bedar’s class, Judaism becomes the only religion whose core tenets may legitimately be defined by hostile non-adherents. His students are taught that, according to the Palestinian perspective, “Judaism . . . has no inherent tie to a particular land. Jews are not a nation but rather a community of believers.”

Class materials compare Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria to the genocidal Nazi policy of lebensraum.

The students, of course, are not presented with what might be a counter perspective, one widely believed by Western historians and many Arabs: that the Palestinian nationality is an artificial construct used by groups of Syrian Arabs to define themselves as a separate people in the 20th century in order to better position themselves in the Arab war against the Jews.

Yet a third Bedar propaganda technique is to quote fringe far-left Jews against Israel to legitimize the most vicious slanders with the “said by a Jew” label. Among the research topics for the class is an article in Israel’s far-left Haaretz newspaper that compares Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria to the genocidal Nazi policy of lebensraum, “living space,” in Eastern Europe. “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis,” is also part of the international definition of anti-Semitism.

Some anti-Semitic lies in Bedar’s course cannot be blamed on the Qataris or Primary Source: they are entirely his own. For example, Bedar lies to his students that Israel made peace with Egypt in the historic 1979 Camp David Accords only “after Israel had extracted most of the oil” from the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel returned to Egypt in the accords. According to Bedar, the accords were an Israeli treachery because they only “facilitated [Israel’s] ability to make war elsewhere.”

In truth, Israeli companies limited their energy projects in the Sinai, knowing that the territory will ultimately be returned. The Sinai oil and gas fields are still very much kicking. “Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations” about Jews or Israel is also a part of the international definition of anti-Semitism….

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Lobbying from jihadi funders must be stopped.

And sue the school management out of existence……….or they will continue their fascist intimidation to shut down conservative free speech and promote islam

This is how patriots fightback and win http://tinyurl.com/y8yzso88

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

How can we have allowed their religion to gain so much power in this country? Is our government truly useless in stopping this?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Our Secretary of Education, Devos,
SHOULD be stopping FOREIGN FUNDING in ALL forms of education in the U.S.!

James Jones
James Jones
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

1] Bush, days past 9/11, ” Islam is a religion of peace “. 2] Holy Land Foundation trials ( early 2000’s ) – many Islamic orgs. cited and convicted, yet not dismantled ( Bobby Mueller played a big part in sweeping away that one ) and continued operating with impunity. 3] Two terms of a closet muslim President. As Pamela says ” How the left destroys a nation “. ( I know Bush was a Rep., but pre Trump, the name was different but the cut of the cloth was the same ).
I’m hoping that what I’ve heard of 50k plus indictments waiting to be executed ( once Kavanaugh was in ) naming some very big fish on sex trafficking and corruption charges, is true. It would clean house/swamp, and open the way to cleaning up some other things as well. God bless Trump.

Corrupt_Club
Corrupt_Club
5 years ago

Recently America elected a racist, communist, and closet Muslim. Barack Hussein Obama trained to be a muslim in a boy’s school (MADRASSA) in Indonesia. Later in Hawaii the teenage Obama was provided a private tutor, FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS. his sole mission was to teach the teenage Obama the History, principles, and tactics of Marxis Communism. Islam and Communism hare Barack Obama’s CORE PRINCIPLES, he is a Trojan Horse for America’s enemies, he is the “enemy within the gates.” He runs the “resistance” from his home in Washington D.C. along with his primary assistant VALERIE JARRETT. Obama imported millions of muslims into America while in office. Before that New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer authored the “immigrant diversity law of 1995. So far 2 million Muslims have entered the U.S. under that law. Muslims never assimilate their loyalty is to Islam as instructed by the Koran. The Koran instructs all Muslims to exterminate all men, women and children who are not Muslim. That is what they have done since the 7th century, and that is what they will do forever as long as there is a Koran to be read. Muslims arrive to take over and while they do that the terrorism begins without end.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Corrupt_Club

Obama’s inner circle were ALL Communists and Muslims.

larry martin
larry martin
5 years ago
Reply to  Corrupt_Club

You nailed it. Of the ME refugees under Obama, almost 95% were Muslims, very few Christians. That has reversed under Trump.

Corrupt_Club
Corrupt_Club
5 years ago
Reply to  larry martin

Obama left the Christians behind so they could be slaughtered by his Muslim pals.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

We need to
BAN ALL FOREIGN MONEY IN OUR SCHOOLS, K-12 and
COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

You can’t even teach the Bible or Christianity in school so how is this even POSSIBLE???

Oops, just answered my own question.

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago

The easy answer is our government promotes, encourages and tolerates it because doing so is advantageous to the deep state agenda.

iprazhm
iprazhm
5 years ago

Qatar is a terrorist state:

Report: Qatar transferring funds to Hamas – via Israel
Qatar paying Hamas salaries, bypassing Palestinian Authority, report says.
Arutz Sheva Staff, 06/10/18 22:18
http://go.newsfusion.com/israel-news/item/10915358

jerrys
jerrys
5 years ago

I Think this has something to do with the state America is in now.
This is outrageous, those who promoted it should be imprisoned! This is a NY high school test from the university regents:
http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeography/Archive/20100817-gh-examw.pdf

This is from page 13 of the test ” . . Wherever they went, the Moslems brought with them their love of art, beauty, and learning.
From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that
of western Christendom.
Some of the finest centers of Moslem life were established in Spain. In Cordova, the streets
were solidly paved, while at the same time in Paris people waded ankle-deep in mud after a rain.
Cordovan public lamps lighted roads for as far as ten miles; yet seven hundred years later there
was still not a single public lamp in London!
Some Spanish Moslems had homes with marble balconies and courts with lovely waterfalls.
Bedrooms were vaulted with stained glass and speckled with gold. And metal pipes carried water
into marble baths.
Nearly every mosque had a public school in which the children of the poor were taught. Many
Moslem libraries were excellent; the catalogue of one caliph’s library filled forty volumes. In
addition, the followers of Mohammed achieved much in science, particularly in chemistry,
astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. . . .
Source: Daniel Roselle, A World History: A Cultural Approach, Ginn and Company (adapted)”

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