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:

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:

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