The NUT and the Fascist Colonialist Zionist Entity
by Eric, 13 March 2008
A bunch of activists are doing the usual tricks:
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is due to discuss a motion at its Easter conference that takes a pro-Palestinian stance on the occupation. It calls on its union to buy educational material produced by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for use by students in schools.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, lest we forget, are the organisation that rejected Tony Greenstein, Sue Blackwell, and Roland Rance (hardly shrinking violets when it comes to criticising Israel), when they attempted to oppose open antisemitism within the movement.
And these people are meant to teach children to think?
Thursday 13 March 2008 at 20:08
From the Education Guardian:
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is due to discuss a motion at its Easter conference that takes a pro-Palestinian stance on the occupation. It calls on its union to buy educational material produced by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for use by students in schools.
The motion, which marks the 60th anniversary of the “unresolved injustice” of the “banishment of 750,000 Palestinians from their homelands”, says that the campaign material “promotes an understanding of the history of this most protracted dispute in the Middle East”.
Knowing what has been determined about textbooks published by the Palestinian Authority for use in its schools as to history and the promotion of peace, and the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, forgive me, but I am skeptical as to how true to historic events and free from bias such materials are likely to be. I am also concerned about the beaurocrats in the Education Ministry who are unlikely to discern the difference between masses of people fleeing their homes because they have been prompted to do so by certain Arab factions and not because they were being attacked or harassed by Jews — the latter being very seldom the case, and the former the usual, and being “banished”, especially as the nascent government of Israel invited those who left to return to their homes. That so many ended up in refugee camps was also very much the decision of the neighbouring Arab countries, who found it politically expedient to neither allow them some degree of dual citizenship nor assist in negotiating terms underwhich those who left might return.
Monday 17 March 2008 at 13:52
What the hell are teachers doing deciding at a union cofnerence what to teach children? Since when was a union conference the place to decide what children were taught?
I thought there was a curriculum authority deciding this sort of thing? What are teacheres doing imposing their own biases whatever they may be - pro Zionist or pro Palestinian - on children?