Why? Can you think of a better way to remind people that Santa Claus died for our sins?
Anti-Semitism
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Former NY Congressman and running for another seat Mondaire Jones's takeaway from Kevin McCarthy's ouster as Speaker of the House is focused on... the Jews. 
An older video about how John Stewart feels about dealing with anti-semetic comments made by celebrities.
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They live streamed this on YouTube, Facebook, etc. Completely comfortable broadcasting this hate for everyone to see.
At the Islamic school where I work, some of my pupils brought up Palestine, but the only odd thing I've heard is one 9-10 year old kid (who's a bit of a comedian/naive) claim "WW3 is coming"...
(I've put the rest of this behind spoilers to limit the post length and/or for reasons of relevance, as it might be on a slight tangent, or I might have repeated myself)
The other kids seemed to be aware of recent events but nothing bad was said to them. The worst thing they complained about was that their iman (Muslim priest ) mometimes beats them with a stick (and he used to teach at our school until we voted to kick his sorry @rse out). I've been told that beating kids is more of a Bangladeshi problem as the current (still rather conservative) Egyptian Islamic teacher said it's not something preferable (or at least accepted) in Egypt and the other Malaysian, Bangladeshi, Palestinian, Pakistani, etc teachers were appalled by the iman's behaviour.
However, the Uzbek teacher told me that she once locked a kid at the school in a large Japanese style cupboard as punishment (which shocked the other teachers). She recently had started to tell me that we shouldn't trust mainstream media (as apparently, it's "all run by Jews, according to Elon Musk" and that possibly (although I might have misheard it) "jihad is coming". She also, when events had just occurred, denied that Israelis and other people had been attacked at a music festival, etc. She believed that Hamas only attacked military targets and if anyone else was attacked, it was "fine, as Israel has done terrible things to Palestine". She seems to get her "news" mainly from Facebook too.
She teaches the pupils (aged between 3-10 years old) Islamic Manners, Maths, etc.
Generally speaking though, I don't think my pupils have been taught anything in particular about the current conflict. As far as I can recall, Muslims are usually taught that Christians and Jews are basically on the "same side" (but, of course, they get some things "wrong").
However, the Uzbek teacher told me that she once locked a kid at the school in a large Japanese style cupboard as punishment (which shocked the other teachers). She recently had started to tell me that we shouldn't trust mainstream media (as apparently, it's "all run by Jews, according to Elon Musk" and that possibly (although I might have misheard it) "jihad is coming". She also, when events had just occurred, denied that Israelis and other people had been attacked at a music festival, etc. She believed that Hamas only attacked military targets and if anyone else was attacked, it was "fine, as Israel has done terrible things to Palestine". She seems to get her "news" mainly from Facebook too.
She teaches the pupils (aged between 3-10 years old) Islamic Manners, Maths, etc.
Generally speaking though, I don't think my pupils have been taught anything in particular about the current conflict. As far as I can recall, Muslims are usually taught that Christians and Jews are basically on the "same side" (but, of course, they get some things "wrong").
...And as I've stated before, as our boss is from Palestine, we teach young kids and it's a job (so we need to be professional), the subject is doubly sensitive.
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Again, this is under spoiler tags as it's slightly off-topic)
I disagree with the tx exception status. In other countries, ex-pats, immigrants or ethnic minorities might find it hard to understand the main language, cultural norms, etc of the host country (or feel they are against the cultural, academic or moral values of their own). This leads to a need for "international schools", which also possibly include religious schools. As such schools might be too expensive (as they might not qualify for official school status by the host country's government) any aid, tax breaks, etc are essential.
However, I DO believe such "private" schools need more government inspections. I think there were several cases of such schools in the UK (including a Jewish school?) that had appalling hygiene/health and safety standards, and where kids were taught (at a Muslim school?) radical beliefs.
To be honest, I can't find the article dealing with this. I recall (perhaps incorrectly) that it mentioned one school (possibly a Jewish one, although the only correlation between "Jewish" is confidential. The the fact it was a religious school and the subject matter of this thread; it's not suggesting anything about Jews in general). The school's kitchens were, if I recall, filthy, with bugs and dirty food everywhere?
If anyone can find the article (possibly from the Guardian newspaper or BBC?) I would be happy to see it. Regardless, I think the issue was more to do with private schools avoiding inspection/sanctions, rather than the religious side per-sec.
However, I DO believe such "private" schools need more government inspections. I think there were several cases of such schools in the UK (including a Jewish school?) that had appalling hygiene/health and safety standards, and where kids were taught (at a Muslim school?) radical beliefs.
To be honest, I can't find the article dealing with this. I recall (perhaps incorrectly) that it mentioned one school (possibly a Jewish one, although the only correlation between "Jewish" is confidential. The the fact it was a religious school and the subject matter of this thread; it's not suggesting anything about Jews in general). The school's kitchens were, if I recall, filthy, with bugs and dirty food everywhere?
If anyone can find the article (possibly from the Guardian newspaper or BBC?) I would be happy to see it. Regardless, I think the issue was more to do with private schools avoiding inspection/sanctions, rather than the religious side per-sec.
NYT again, having to append a five paragraph long correction from the editor, like nothing I've ever seen before, saying one of their recent articles about Gaza had just been entirely wrong.
NYT walks back story on Israeli poetry in Gaza; it needed ‘more extensive reporting’
Article portraying professor 'calmly teaching' Yehuda Amichai poem 'did not accurately reflect' Refaat Alareer’s views; he's on video branding it horrible and dangerouswww.timesofisrael.com
Article subject Refaat Alareer thinks (unconfirmed) reports of Hamas infanticide are funny:
You know what I'll bet it is, at least partially? White guilt over the 2000s culture of racism against Arabs. Left-leaning media outlets are terrified of looking less than friendly towards middle easterners, but narrow-minded enough to assume that hating Jewish people is just something they all do, so they don't put any effort into vetting the ones they hire or promote.
I know it's the kind of take that makes me sound like those right-wingers who use the term "identity politics" unironically and rail against affirmative action because they think it means strict hiring quotas and Blizzard-style diversity charts, but it makes more sense to me than "left-leaning media outlets are run by secret Nazi sympathizers."
I know it's the kind of take that makes me sound like those right-wingers who use the term "identity politics" unironically and rail against affirmative action because they think it means strict hiring quotas and Blizzard-style diversity charts, but it makes more sense to me than "left-leaning media outlets are run by secret Nazi sympathizers."
That might explain in part actions on the American centre-left, but speaking as a British person, I’ve become incredibly aware in the last 7-8 years how much deep antisemitism there is baked into the more radical left. It’s just there, but unspoken about on the surface, utterly taboo to even mention as an recognisable problem.
Well, they don’t over here either, but it’s a lot of social media and forum traffic as far as I see that is influenced by that form of thinking.
I saw that side of things as fringe, relatively harmless cranks until the emergence of Corbyn and his personality cult just complacent and naive I was about them.
I saw that side of things as fringe, relatively harmless cranks until the emergence of Corbyn and his personality cult just complacent and naive I was about them.
The dude in my post, I think you're probably right, because I can't imagine a Western journalist posting Hitler stuff being described as "problematic" and the organization saying essentially "don't worry, we've explained to him that is wrong and he won't do it again." But people in the Middle East know who Hitler and the Nazis are and what they did, that's the reason they get invoked. No one's bringing him up because they're becoming vegetarians or adopting dogs and oh oops, I didn't know that OTHER thing about Hitler.
Record number of hate incidents against British Jews reported, says antisemitism charity
More than 1,000 incidents recorded in UK since 7 October Hamas attacks, including targeting of schools
www.theguardian.com
(I’ve seen elsewhere online a common claim that there isn’t actually any rise in anti-Jewish racism, just “the Zios” have forced the government to criminalise criticism of Israel. Of course.)
And on the flip side of the coin...
www.huffpost.com
Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) and a group of far-right House Republicans want to revoke visas issued to Palestinians.
Why is antisemitism so rife in UK academic settings? I have never found student life more difficult | Anonymous
British campuses have seen more incidents in a month than in all of 2022, but support and understanding are in short supply, says a student at Oxford University
www.theguardian.com