Israel Matzav

Monday, October 17, 2011

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.ie/2011/10/heavily-jewish-boston-area-high-school.html

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 aas 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?