Israel's Right Targets Textbooks

[Purveyor]

Conservative parties are lobbying to remove Palestinian history from school curriculum.

Jonathan Cook Last Modified: 07 Oct 2013

Nazareth, Israel - Israel's right-wing government and its supporters stand accused of stoking an atmosphere of increasing intimidation and intolerance in schools and among groups working for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The latest efforts by the right to stifle dissent have included censoring schoolbooks and seeking to silence organisations that raise troubling questions about Israel and its past - in what appears to be an escalating war for the minds of Israelis.

Groups allied to the government tried to prevent the recent staging of an international conference in Tel Aviv that examined events surrounding Israel's creation in 1948 - known as the "War of Independence" to Israelis and the "Nakba", or catastrophe, to Palestinians.

At the same time, it emerged that one of the far-right groups involved, Im Tirtzu, had initiated a campaign to shut down the organisation behind the conference, Zochrot, accusing it of violating Israeli law by "rejecting Israel's existence".

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/10/israel-right-targets-textbooks-20131039491684745.html

[oberliner]

1. Headline is a lie - contradicted by the article

The article is actually about a far left group that is targeting textbooks and efforts by a far right group to stop that far left group from doing so.

[azurnoir]

2. please post the part of the article that states that with link :)

but thanks for your input

[oberliner]

3. It is in the excerpt provided by the person who posted the OP

Read it above.

[azurnoir]

4. are you 'confused' ? Zochrot or The Remembering (Nakba) is a leftist organization

and Im Tirzu is Rightwing, I'm glad I could educate you on this