Sterk melding fra kommentator Aluf Benn i en artikkel i Haaretz 3. mai.
Han kommenterer historielærebøkene i Israel:
"Israel's Education Ministry Doesn't Deal With Education, Only Hasbara"
Benn påpeker at i undervisningen er Jesus utelatt:
"The curriculum and textbook that won the content tender, “From the
Temple State to the People of the Book,” ignores the most prominent Jew
of the period – Jesus. The man and his disciples created right here,
from the Galilee and Jerusalem, the most successful and important
spiritual movement in all of human history."
Og videre anfører Benn:
"The historical distortion does not stop with Jesus. The curriculum skips over the history of Israel between the completion of the Mishna until the Zionist movement. Poof, 1,700 years have vanished. Muslim rule is out, the Crusaders are out, Saladin did not exist, and 400 years of Ottoman rule evaporated. In the eyes of the Education Ministry, young Israeli men and women do not need to know what happened here. It’s enough for them to learn about Herod, Herzl and Hitler."
1700 år av historien i området er utelatt.
Benn mener man her ikke underviser i historie ... man bedriver hasbara.
Skudeneshavn 4. mai 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 3. mai 2022:
Israel's Education Ministry Doesn't Deal With Education, Only Hasbara
Critics of Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s plans to cancel the
matriculation (bagrut) exams in the humanities warn that a generation of
ignoramuses and simpletons is being raised here, and they will be
channeled into high-tech and real estate, according to the libertarian
capitalist vision of the “change government.”
But the debate involves only the learning mechanism and misses the main
point: What are they really teaching in high school, and does the
Israeli educational system cultivate a broader education, with or
without a matriculation exam? Regrettably, the answer is no. The history
curriculum for official non-religious state schools is read as a roller
coaster of rebirth and destruction, which starts off during the
Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms, stops for the failed rebellions against
the Romans, passes through the Jewish communities in the Christian and
Muslim civilizations during the Middle Ages, and skips from there to the
reawakening of Zionism, to the Nazis and Holocaust, on its way to the
founding of Israel and absorption of the new immigrants.
It focuses on the history of the Jews, and other people and religions
appear as supporting characters in the plot, which is intended to build
an “identity based on Jewish and Zionist values,” in the words of the
document from the supervisor for teaching history, Dr. Orna Katz-Atar.
So who is missing from the curriculum, who perhaps could undermine these
“Jewish and Zionist values?”
Let’s start in the days of the Second Temple. The curriculum and textbook that won the content tender, “From the Temple State to the People of the Book,” ignores the most prominent Jew of the period – Jesus. The man and his disciples created right here, from the Galilee and Jerusalem, the most successful and important spiritual movement in all of human history. The textbook even mentions Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus – but only in the context of his harassment of the Jews. Early Christianity is not mentioned.
The book was written by Sagi Cohen, and his professional adviser is
Prof. Joshua Schwartz from Bar-Ilan University, who studies the history
of the Land of Israel in the Roman-Byzantine era – and who has written
studies of John the Baptist and of “Jesus, the Material Jew.” In other
words, Schwartz understands the importance of Jesus and even earned his
living from writing about him.
So how did he give his scientific patronage to a textbook that disappears such a key figure from the story? How is it possible to understand Jewish and Zionist history, and the State of Israel today, without knowing about the Christianity and Islam that followed in its footsteps? Schwartz is acting as a censor who keeps the secrets for himself, and not as a scientist whose role is to impart knowledge.
But the Education Ministry does not deal with education, only public
relations (hasbara) – in passing down the story that the Land of Israel
has been Jewish forever, that the Arabs are aliens who appeared out of
nowhere, and that Christianity is a European religion which is not
connected to this place. If that is what they are teaching in high
school, it would be better if Shasha-Biton canceled all the matriculation exams.
Because then, courageous teachers and parents could break the religious
and nationalist censorship and tell of the long list of peoples and
religions that lived, flourished and fought here. Even the supervisor of
history education exposed a crack in the screen of official
indoctrination when she cautiously proposed (“may be possible and
correct”) to adapt the internal test that will replace the external
matriculation exam to the values of the community where the school
operates. Who will jump at this subversive opportunity?
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