Forcing educational institutions to distribute occupation books threatens to disrupt the educational process
The “distorted curriculum” .. a dilemma facing 99,000 Jerusalem students
The occupation aims to criminalize the Palestinian curriculum in Jerusalem.
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Lawyer Raed Bashir: “The coming days will be decisive in our legitimate demands. We have sent, on behalf of the Union of Parents’ Committees in Jerusalem, to the Occupation Municipality in Jerusalem, and the Israeli Ministry of Education, a message with the demands of the people to abolish the distorted curriculum.”
Jerusalem schools refuse to hand over their distorted curriculum.
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The distorted curriculum is imposed on the three grade levels.
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Jerusalem students object to the distorted curriculum.
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Although more than a month has passed since the beginning of the school year in the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, the Israeli occupation is still moving forward to impose the Israeli curriculum on all schools in the Holy City, and to distort the Palestinian curricula, to Judaize education within educational institutions.
Over the past weeks, after the start of the current academic year, many schools, students’ families, and parents’ committees in Jerusalem carried out several protest activities, rejecting the policy of Judaizing education, imposing the “distorted” Israeli curriculum, and emphasizing the right of their children to teach the Palestinian curriculum. Students about education on the 19th of last September.
Despite all this, the Israeli municipality of the occupation in Jerusalem, and the Israeli Ministry of Education, did not respond to the demands of the Union of Jerusalem Parents’ Committees to prevent the imposition of the Israeli curriculum on Jerusalemite students, which threatens to impose a comprehensive strike in all schools in the Holy City, and threatens the educational future of nearly 99,000 students. A holy student.
Curriculum distortion
Jerusalem schools, which teach the Palestinian educational curricula, refuse to distribute books imposed by the occupation authorities on their students, due to their distorted curricula, which contradict the identity and history of the Holy City.
The distorted Israeli curriculum, which the occupation and its municipality seek to impose on the schools of the Holy City, is a distorted copy of the original Palestinian curricula, as the distorted curriculum erases all Palestinian national and societal values between the folds of its pages, in addition to imposing Israeli ideas, opinions and terminology, or deleting entire Palestinian paragraphs or chapters, To promote ideas and content that Jerusalemites reject altogether, according to the head of the Parents Union Committee in Jerusalem Schools, Ziad Shamali.
Shamali told "Emirates Today", in an exclusive interview, that "the occupation seeks by various means to impose the Israeli curricula on the Jerusalemite students, and to distort the Palestinian curricula, to Judaize education in Jerusalem, and to erase Palestinian history and memory from the minds of the students of Jerusalem."
He added that "the occupation municipality in the Holy City and the Israeli Ministry of Education are reprinting the textbooks adopted by Jerusalemite schools for decades, after striking out the phrases confirming that Jerusalem is the capital of occupied Palestine, and deleting everything that symbolizes the identity and history of the Palestinian people, most notably the term Palestinian Nakba." .
Among the terms and texts that the Israeli occupation erased from the Palestinian curriculum after distorting school books, a verse of poetry referring to the Israeli checkpoints from a poem included in an Arabic language book, illustrations of the key to Palestinian refugees before the Nakba from a mathematics book, as well as a paragraph on the treaties that tore the East Middle in a book of geography.
The educational path is deteriorating
The number of students in all primary, preparatory and secondary levels in Jerusalem is about 98,482 male and female, while 45,500 male and female students go to 146 schools affiliated with the Palestinian education umbrella, and those whose curricula are taught, namely, endowment schools, private schools, and UNRWA schools Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), while the rest go to schools affiliated to the Israeli Ministry of Education and the occupation municipality in the Holy City.
The educational process of these students is on the brink of an abyss, as a result of the Israeli practices that have resulted in a worsening of the educational process, which threatens the comprehensive strike, which is called by the parents of Jerusalem students, in rejection of the policy of Judaizing education in the Holy City.
The head of the Parents’ Committee for Abrahamic College School students in Jerusalem, lawyer Raed Bashir, says that “the coming days will be decisive in our legitimate demands. We have sent, on behalf of the Union of Parents’ Committees in Jerusalem, to the occupation municipality in Jerusalem, and the Israeli Ministry of Education, a message with the parents’ demands to cancel the distorted curriculum, In the event that the demands are not met, the parents will take further legal measures and protest activities.
And it shows that the measures that the parents of Jerusalem students will take are a warning strike from education, protest sit-ins, recognition of the Palestinian curriculum, distribution of books to students, returning copies of books from distorted curricula, leading to announcing a comprehensive and open strike in all schools in the Holy City.
He added that “the strike on education, and the implementation of protest steps, is the right of the students’ parents, not to force them to teach their children curricula that distort their future. Examples of this are the comprehensive strike that Jerusalem schools witnessed in 1968 against the Israeli curriculum, where the occupation was forced to approve the Jordanian curriculum at the time, To fail his attempts to (Israelize) the education of the Holy City.”
Judaizing extracurricular activities
At the end of last July, the Israeli occupation approved canceling the permanent licenses of six Palestinian schools in Jerusalem, and replacing them with temporary ones for a period of one year, during which the school in question would be removed from its curricula of “inciting content.”
These schools are: the Ibrahimi College in the Al-Masara neighborhood of Jerusalem, which was established in 1931, and the Faith Schools with its five branches spread throughout the Jerusalem neighborhoods, which were established in 1984, and which are classified as private schools, accommodating 2,000 male and female students in their classrooms.
The head of the Abrahamic College Students’ Parents Committee points out that the distortion of curricula and its Judaization is not limited to textbooks only, but also extends to extracurricular activities throughout the educational process. .
Bashir says that "the procedures of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Education towards Jerusalem schools are not based on the law, but rather are carried out through confusion and arrogance, in an attempt to criminalize the Palestinian curriculum."
At the end of last July, the Israeli occupation decided to cancel the permanent licenses of six Palestinian schools in Jerusalem, and to replace them with temporary ones for a period of one year, during which the school in question would be removed from its curricula of “inciting content”.
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