Illinois district withdraws ‘Teaching Palestine’ course that was genocidal Jew-hatred

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It is not enough to withdraw the course.These things don’t just happen. They are made to happen. The left has turned public education into hotbeds of radical hate.

Illinois district withdraws ‘Teaching Palestine’ course critics say was anti-Semitic propaganda

By Caleb Parke | Fox News May 31, 2019

Niles West High School, located in the Chicago-area, Illinois. The district apologized and withdraw their support of a course called “Teaching Palestine” after staff and community outrage.

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Niles West High School, located in the Chicago-area, Illinois. The district apologized and withdraw their support of a course called “Teaching Palestine” after staff and community outrage. (Google Street View)

A Chicago-area school district came under fire for promoting a course for educators called “Teaching Palestine,” which officials eventually said was “one-sided.” Critics called it “anti-Semitic” propaganda.

The controversial course, offered by Teachers for Social Justice, covered the “Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Palestine liberation struggle,” according to a description obtained by the Jewish News Syndicate, or JNS.

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Goals for the anti-Israel course include “concrete strategies for how to respond to Zionist professional developments and curricula or when parents/staff/others object to anti-Zionist curriculum.”

The course also offered “curriculum connections between Palestine and issues affecting our students, such as: state/police violence, the struggle for racial justice in the U.S., settler colonialism in Palestine and the U.S., access to education for historically marginalized youth.”

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The district, which oversees Niles North High School and Niles West High School, sent out an email to staff May 22 for training opportunities “related to racial equality and social justice.” On Thursday, however, it apologized.

“These Summer Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) meet on various topics identified and developed by educators throughout the Chicago area…this course was not developed by the district, and the district was never going to provide continuing education credits or lane advancement credit for the course,” Dr. Steven Isoye, superintendent, La Wanna Wells, director of equity, and Jim Szczepaniak, director of community relations and strategic partnerships, wrote in a joint statement.

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“We then heard from teachers and members of our community who were concerned about the one-sided nature of this course that addresses a very complex topic. We recognize that without multiple perspectives surrounding this topic, we created a sense of exclusion by including this offering. We should have noted this before including the course and apologize for this mistake. Therefore, we are retracting the course from the list of offerings that were shared.”

Jewish Voice for Peace, a national anti-Israel group, reportedly provided information for the course.

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group, and StandWithUs, a pro-Israel group, celebrated the school’s reversal.

“We were gratified to receive a call from Steven Isoye, superintendent of Niles High School District, in response to the [StandWithUs] protest canceling the course and to have also received the district’s formal statement acknowledging its error,” Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Chicago-based Midwest director Alison Slovin told JNS.

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“We are pleased that District 219 acknowledged that their Teaching Palestine course was one-sided and inadequate to address a very complex topic, and that it created a sense of exclusion for Jewish and pro-Israel students,” Roz Rothstein, StandWithUs CEO, told JNS.

District officials promised to “develop a more rigorous set of standards to determine what professional development opportunities we share with our staff in the future.”

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

I can’t help but wonder how many school districts are teaching this. How many parents are clueless and sleeping,
don’t care or agree with it. Mine are done K-12. We put in our time with this. For those that still have kids or grand kids, email newsletters listed below, are excellent sources of information that you can rely for what the liberals are up to in education. Education is a MESS and getting WORSE. I typically don’t look at them anymore since we am done with K-12!

They give you a heads up on the latest globalist agenda upgrades and dumbing kids down. LGBTQ is taught as normal in nearly all subjects as well as whites are racists. I see they are now pushing Jew hating and more revisionist history. The indoctrination is over the top and they use cheery picked “evidence based” to laughingly serve as being “objective”. There is also an intense hostility towards Christianity and Islam is exalted. Another dangerous push is for SEL (Social Emotional Learning) where they tell students how to react and behave emotionally in situations, is now in nearly all subjects with the goal to have it in ALL subjects – emotional brainwashing! I could go on and on but it’s better if you read it yourself.

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CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

In every WESTERN country where Muslims are in the minority, they are obsessed with minority rights.
In every ISLAMIC country with a Muslim majority, …there are no minority rights!

islam is NOT a religion of peace, a race nor one of peace!!
islam is a sick and twisted terrorist ideology that is completely incompatible with western civilization!!

Deport all muslims, CITIZENS OR NOT, from the west at once!!
Ban all muslims from traveling to the west, …FOREVER
Implement muslim control, NOT gun control.

Defending your person, your family, your country from attack and invasion from those forcing a violent, terrorist, genocidal ideology on western civilization…is …not … islamophobia ….or racist. ….It is just common sense.

The people of Europe, Britain and Canada must throw down their treasonous leaders forcing this evil upon them. The USA just did, Nov. 2016!

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
4 years ago

In central Wisconsin the students are being taught that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel.

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4 years ago

…. don’t worry folks, when the time is right,… they’ll bring this ‘critical cultural learning’ BACK !!
Waiting for Democrats to control US House, US Senate and/or Presidency !

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tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago

and will bring the neighbors.

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
4 years ago

No ‘P’ in Arabic Means No Palestine, Israeli Lawmaker Says. Indeed, there is no hard P sound in Arabic, but there is a softer F, and Palestinians pronounce the name of their would-be state as “Falastin” (fah-leh-STEEN) — as do most Hebrew-speaking Israelis. Contemporary written Arabic does have a letter P, with three dots, that was added to accommodate foreign words like Pepsi.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/world/middleeast/israel-anat-berko-palestine.html

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

Enemy inside.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev

…and yet Trump will not deport them as National Security risks of the highest order.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

This is one district out of thousands that may have adopted this or similar course materials. Is anyone taking a count? It is a very serious matter. I have posted this link before, but if you have no read how our children’s textbooks are being manipulated to support global jihad you need to know! Go to http://goudsmit.pundicity.com/22688/the-humanitarian-hoax-of-pearson-educatione

jerrys
jerrys
4 years ago

Our children are being turned into weapons against us! We must put a stop to the islaminization of our country

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..
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)”

Those
learned in Islamic law and the imams of the four schools of
jurisprudence consider apostasy a crime and agree that the apostate must
either renounce his apostasy or else be killed.
Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you find them… (Koran 9: 5)
This
is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His messenger …
they shall be killed, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall be
struck off on opposite sides. (Koran 5: 33)
I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers; so strike the necks, and strike every finger of them. (Koran 8: 12)

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  jerrys

The West does NOT need to allow thousands of backward, 7th century, unvetted and violent muslim savages into our countries that have ‘enshrined’ sexual slavery, rape, forced conversion, assault, murder and genocide in their FAKE religion!

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
4 years ago

y`all are 50 yr. behind. a lot of ground work,over many years has gone into to-days so called public education.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

The American Jews need to start taking action against this insanity!

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