Israel Matzav

Monday, October 17, 2011

Heavily Jewish Boston area high school teaching 'Palestinian'

propaganda
It's not the first time that this sort of thing has happened at Newton South High
School, which is in a middle class Boston suburban area. And given that the area
has an extreme Left liberal bent (this is the district that keeps sending Barney
Frank to Congress), it probably won't be the last time either.
Tony Pagliuso told the Newton TAB his daughter, a Newton South High School
student, was given material defaming Israeli defense forces.
Pagliuso said World History teacher Jessica Engel distributed a chapter on
women from the Arab World Notebook to students earlier this week.
Its pure propaganda and pure defamation that Israeli occupation forces and
citizen soldiers are imprisoning, torturing and murdering Arab women, he said.
The section, of the third of five pages, reads as follows: Over the past four
decades, women have been active in the Palestinian resistance movement.
Several hundred have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli
occupation forces since the latest uprising, Intifada, in the Israeli occupied
territories.
Pagliuso said his daughter was troubled by the reading.
My family - were all Israeli and American citizens and have a lot of family in
this area. [My daughter] said is this true? Is this what Israeli soldiers do?
knowing full well we have 25 family members in the Israel Defense Forces, he
said.
Pagliuso said he spoke to Engel, Department Head Jennifer Morrill, Principal
Joel Stembridge, central administrators and Mayor Setti Warren.
Superintendant David Fleishman said Stembridge, Morrill and Engel are
meeting with Pagliuso on Tuesday.
Jen Morrill is in her first month of the job. She took a look at it and agreed its
something that needs to be reviewed I took a look at it and agree it needs to be
reviewed, Fleishman said.

He said theyll examine the particular passage to see is it fits with the goal of the
class-learning about Islam and women in the Middle East.
He said the previous department head was involved in the curriculum choice,
and that administrators will determine if it deviates from the class goal.
We value lots of input and free speech, and we agreed with the parent it's worth
reviewing, he said.
Of course the real question is where are Israel's representatives in the Boston
area and why aren't they countering this type of propaganda? Silly me. Why
even ask that question?