A followup to the HR communique on biased children’s educational materials on the Mideast conflict:
‘Classroom Ready News’ is an educational resource used by schools throughout North America. The most recent weekly edition (.pdf file), designed for grades 8-10, is an overview of Hamas and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The anti-Israel angle is simply astounding:
When the state of Israel was created in 1948, Palestinians lost much of their land. Israel took even more territory in 1967, when Palestinian forces were humiliated in the Six Day War. For decades, Palestine has felt oppressed by Israel. In the early 1990s, Palestinian anger toward Israel began to take the form of suicide bombings, which were carried out mostly by members of a group named Hamas.
Don’t miss the ‘answers’ at the end:
4. Define oppressed. To treat people in a cruel, unjust, and hard way.
You can tell they really know their stuff:
4.Who is the president of Israel? Ariel Sharon.
That must be news to Moshe Katsav. How depressing that these are the people who are educating North American children on the Mideast!
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UPDATE: Classroom Ready has removed the article from their site.
