This is another reason I'm glad my wife and I are homeschooling our children.
The Jerusalem Post reports many U.S. textbooks contain gross errors about Jews and Israel.
the textbook The World relates that "Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus."
A young Palestinian? While there is some vague truth to that, the correct--by far--statement would be that "Christianity was started by a young Jew named Jesus."
"Textbooks include negative stereotypes of Jews, Judaism and Israel," the authors write. "For example, textbooks tend to discredit the ties between Jews and the land of Israel."
According to Tobin, "you're much more likely to learn about Jewish terrorism before the founding of Israel [in the textbooks] than about terrorism against Israel since that time."
Among the claims made about Israel in some of the textbooks are that Arab countries never initiated wars against Israel, Arab nations desire peace while Israel does not and that it was Israel that placed Palestinians in refugee camps in Arab lands, not Arab governments. No mention whatsoever was found relating to the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries who were forced out after the establishment of Israel.
In their treatment of Judaism, too, the textbooks showed a negative bias, according to the study. They often expressed a view that "Jews and Judaism are legalistic," and that "Jews care only about the letter of the law and ignore its spirit," the study found. The Jewish God is presented as "stern and warlike," and not compassionate, as is highlighted in other religions. In some instances, Jews are charged with deicide in the killing of Jesus.
Also notice the difference in how Judaism and Islam are referred to:
"Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai."
The same glossary describes the Koran as a "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God" - without a conditional qualifier.
Sounds like a bunch of anti-Semites have been putting together America's text books.
Probably the same or similar group that is trying to rewrite history America's Christian heritage.
There is a full-fledged and pretty open war against Judeo-Christian values going on throughout the West and even here in America. And a lot of the same people who would like to erase Christianity would also like to erase Israel.
Something needs to be done about these pathetic schoolbooks.
4 comments:
wow this is ridiculous..american kids are being taught lies and being brainwashed..isn't THAT wonderful...
What is ridiculous is how brainwashed Americans are concerning jews, Jesus, and Christianity. Jesus was not a "jew", in fact he was sentenced to death by rabbis(sanhedrin)for his opposition to judaism. Palestinians, both christian and Muslim, revere Jesus while Israeli jews curse his memory and call him a false messiah who was born to a harlot.
Are you joking, Steve?
Are you familiar with Jesus' lineage? He was born in Israel according to Jewish prophecy to a Jewish family with a Jewish lineage that is traced back to Abraham, and was circumcised as a Jew.
He also was not killed for opposing Judaism. He fulfilled Judaism, and was killed for (a) in the eyes of the Romans who carried out the execution, opposing Caesar and (b) in the eyes of most members of the Sanhedrin--but not all--which pushed for the execution, for blasphemy--he claimed to be one with God and they rejected that claim.
If you are serious and not joking about what you said, you've apparently been reading some public school textbooks.
Steve, I'm not going to post any more of your anti-semitic propaganda or any links, so go peddle it somewhere else.
You must be one of these idiots who write these textbooks.
Nobody says you have to like the Jewish people, but you should be ashamed of peddling lies like the links you submitted and I just rejected.
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