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Anti-Israel lesson plans are fast becoming a problem in high schools across the country and even in unlikely places like the heavily Jewish populated town of Newton, Mass.<\/h2>\n

Anti-Israel lesson plans are fast becoming a problem in high schools across the country and even in unlikely places like the heavily Jewish populated town of Newton, Mass., a group of scholars and writers on the Middle East are warning.<\/p>\n

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Nationally, mainstream Jewish organizations are paying significant attention to anti-Israel activity on college campuses. But there is not enough focus on what is being taught at the middle and high school levels, according to Andrea Levin, executive director of CAMERA, an international fact-checking organization that monitors the media, college campuses and high school lesson plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is that fashionable anti-Israel ideologies on college campuses are trickling down to the high schools,\u201d says Levin. \u201cYesterday\u2019s college students are today\u2019s high school teachers. Misinformation learned in biased college classrooms is now being taught in social-studies classes in public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Syracuse University political-science professor Miriam Elman agrees. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening is a kind of negative feedback loop,\u201d she says. \u201cNot only does anti-Israel hostility on college campuses influence the next generation of high school teachers, but these high school teachers are in turn sending kids up to college with a misinformed view of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Elman, the result is that some high schools and universities are becoming ever more inhospitable to the values of most Jewish students and families, as well as other Americans who value the U.S.-Israel relationship and academic integrity. Bias at the two school levels is feeding off each other.<\/p>\n

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SJP-sponsored “apartheid wall” spreading anti-Israel misinformation at California State University. (AMP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The question of how to break this \u201cnegative feedback loop\u201d will be one of the themes at an upcoming scholarly\u00a0conference at the JCC of Greater Boston<\/a>\u00a0in Newton, Mass. on Jan. 28, which is being sponsored by CAMERA.<\/p>\n

Levin says that the location for the conference has a reason: Anti-Israel bias in Newton\u2019s public high schools has received national media attention in recent years. In August, a lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts concerning anti-Semitic school materials in Newton, as reported by\u00a0JNS\u2019s Jackson Richman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNewton really is an important case study for the whole country,\u201d says Steven Stotsky, author of\u00a0Indoctrinating Our Youth: How a U.S. Public School Curriculum Skews the Arab-Israeli Conflict<\/em><\/a>. \u201cNewton is not the sort of community where you\u2019d expect an anti-Israel worldview to gain a foothold in the public schools\u2014and yet it has. It just goes to show you that such bias can taint any school district.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stotsky says that omissions play a key part in the school\u2019s flawed lesson plans. Much of the time, kids are not receiving a factual version of Israel\u2019s side of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at the distortions in the Newton curriculum, you see how students receive a highly unsympathetic view of the Jewish state,\u201d says Stotsky. \u201cFor example, the curriculum will focus on heartbreaking stories of Palestinian refugees, but then say nothing about the heartbreaking stories of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Sympathy is thus turned against Israel. \u2026 That\u2019s just one example of how the bias works at the high school level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Levin says that it is important to understand that strategies for combating anti-Israel messaging in high schools are different than strategies used in universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the high school level, schools are most likely to respond to parents,\u201d she says. \u201cOn our website\u00a0schoolbias.org<\/a>, we provide parents with\u00a0a step-by-step procedure<\/a>\u00a0for taking effective action against anti-Israel bias in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is that more parents will start taking these steps,\u201d says Levin. \u201cIt\u2019s vitally important that they help root out misinformation and omissions in their local schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

CAMERA\u2019s conference on anti-Israel bias in public schools will be on Monday, Jan. 28, at 7\u00a0 p.m. at the\u00a0JCC of Greater Boston<\/a>. The public and media are welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published at\u00a0JNS.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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