Israel’s assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide
A strike
by staff and students at 47 Palestinian Christian schools in Israel had
been taking place for a few weeks before the American broadcaster NBC
took notice.
According to NBC’s headline,
the protest was about “discrimination.” That it felt the need to put
quotation marks around “discrimination” was indicative of how the
mainstream media in the United States continuously fail to acknowledge
that Israel is, fundamentally, a racist state.
The Christian schools represent some of the few independent spaces
for Palestinian political, cultural and economic life within Israel. So
the cuts in government funding that triggered the strike must be
understood as the latest move in the Israeli assault on Palestinians’ right to education.
That assault began at the time of the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
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