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Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The ministry had claimed that Yuval had opposed the conference, which took place on January 18 and was attended by some 300 pupils. B’Tselem, a human rights organization, launched a new campaign this month in which it claimed that Israel maintains an apartheid regime in the entire territory “between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River,” meaning both in Israel and the West Bank. The day before the conference, Gallant issued a letter banning from schools any organizations “That treat IDF soldiers with contempt and call Isr...
Follow Jan. 30, 2021 The hearing the Education Ministry held last Thursday for the heads of Haifa’s Hebrew Reali School, simply because they dared to invite the executive director of B’Tselem to talk to their students, was meant to intimidate educators and deter them from engaging with the reality of the occupation and the routine of military control over the Palestinians, which the right-wing government denies. From start to finish, this was a political hearing that sought to “reeducate” teachers and principals, and it’s doubtful whether there was any legal basis for it. There shou...
Follow Jan. 29, 2021 The hearing the Education Ministry held on Thursday for the principals of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, after they had invited B’Tselem’s director to talk to students, was intended more than anything else to deter other principals and teachers. The message is loud and clear: principals and teachers must shut up, avoid any discussion of the reality they and their pupils live in. There must be no fact-based discussion, not even thinking about it. Like silencing lawsuits meant to reduce the freedom of speech, the silencing hearing is to ensure teachers reduce themsel...
Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The school asked the ministry for the legal basis on which its decision had been based, and when it got no reply, it went ahead with the lecture. In a letter to the principal, Mendi Rabinowitz, ministry director-general Amit Edri wrote on Wednesday that he had conducted himself in a manner “inconsistent with legal provisions and the norms expected of any instructor, and especially a principal.” Edri argued that discussing controversial issues with students was permissible, but that “the full spectrum of views regarding each topic...