Self-Destructive Leftist Israeli Idiocy Knows No Bounds, Textbooks Edition

By
Omri Ceren
– December 5, 2006Posted in: News

To the masses of Israeli students who voted for Labor as a “protest vote”, thereby weakening Kadima and ensuring far-Left Defense and Education Ministers – we here at MR would like to say thank you:

Israel’s education minister has said school textbooks should show Israel’s pre-1967 borders, prompting a storm of criticism from right-wingers. Yuli Tamir said changes were needed to give Israeli children a proper understanding of their history. Ms Tamir – who is a founder of the anti-settlement group Peace Now – countered criticism by saying that ignoring the facts of Israel’s pre-1967 shape also reflected a political viewpoint.

MR reader Merav, who tipped us off to this story, comments that “when people talk about pre-1967, I always am nervous they’re actually talking about something more like this. Quite right.

And the BBC isn’t even content to just let the founder of Peace Now spout off about what she thinks is wrong in Israeli society. Oh no. In a strange game of idiot one-upmanship, they drop this little treat of moral equivalence at the end of the article:

Controversy over school textbooks is not a new phenomenon in the Middle East conflict. Since the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s, successive Israeli governments have criticised the Palestinian Authority for textbooks which they said negated Israel’s right to exist and incited anti-Israeli hatred among Palestinian children.

It takes a special kind of anti-Israel hysteria and bias to equate Israeli textbooks – which show a Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip and talk about how Arabs are full-fledged citizens of Israel – with Palestinian textbooks that promise eternal heaven to anyone who will murder a Jew (h/t: MR reader Merav)

Further reading: Protest Vote Hangover, Part XVII, The BBC Lies, I’m Really Excited About This Election Thing