Cheap hamas propaganda tactics being use in US grade schools

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A Map Without Israel Plunges a Grade School Into a Political Firestorm

A cherished tradition at Public School 261 in Boerum Hill, the heart of
gentrified Brooklyn, is the annual march to Borough Hall in honor of
Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Children prepare for weeks, making signs
denouncing racism, homophobia, climate upheaval and other expressions of
social and ecological pox. So the disappointment was pervasive this
year, when the march was canceled and replaced by an assembly in the
cafeteria.

The catalyst for the change was the uproar that emerged after a social
media post, nine months old, from Qatar Foundation International,
resurfaced with a picture of a P.S. 261 classroom featuring a colorful
resource map of North Africa and the Middle East. It was pinned to the
wall under a handwritten sign that read: “Arab World.”

Last week, an article in The Free Press, a media site that has
positioned itself against what it considers the enemies of free speech,
called attention to what was missing from this geography. Algeria,
Yemen, Sudan were among the nations that appeared on the poster. Israel
did not. Instead, the region was called Palestine.

The map had been used in a class on Arab art and culture for 12 years.
But in this tinderbox of a historical moment, the fact of it blasted
into wide view largely via The New York Post, which published an article
with the headline “Brooklyn Public School Omits Israel From Qatar-Funded
Classroom Map, Labels It Palestine.”

A follow-up in The Post later that day focused on the outrage of local
officials. Dan Goldman, the Democratic congressman whose district
includes Boerum Hill, weighed in to say that he was “deeply concerned.”
The politicians wanted to know how the city’s Department of Education
signed off on a display that had brushed Israel into nonexistence.

The central office of the D.O.E. has neither the time nor necessarily
the commitment to vet everything that happens in every classroom in a
system that serves nearly one million children. Some wish that it did.
Tova Plaut, an instructional coordinator for the department, has been
especially vocal about what has happened at P.S. 261 and sees the issue
as the symptom of a broader problem of “Jewish hate and erasure” in city
schools, “not a one-off,” she told me.

“This particular example speaks to why there needs to be systemwide
training on how to recognize antisemitism,” she said. The definition she
prefers is the robust one that comes from the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance, which has been adopted or endorsed by 43 countries.

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