Posted on 05/24/2005 12:22:43 PM PDT by IAF ThunderPilot
Three days after Israel's ambassador to Spain protested anti-Israeli propaganda in a Spanish teachers' manual, the Foreign Ministry Monday protested the inclusion of an anti-Israeli poem in a Norwegian matriculation exam.
Norwegian Ambassador Jakken Biorn Lian was called to a meeting with Deputy Director-General Rafi Shutz, who protested the inclusion of what the Foreign Ministry described as a one-sided poem about a Palestinian girl killed in Bethlehem in 2002.
The poem was presented as an example of a text dealing with a conflict, and the students were asked to analyze it using the literary techniques they had studied. This was the only political text in the test, with other poems and texts dealing with personal or family conflicts.
Attempts by Israel's ambassador last week to get the poem removed from the test failed.
Last Friday Israel's ambassador to Spain protested a teachers' manual put out by the Barcelona municipality that drew parallels between the Holocaust and the security fence.
Gasp!! Anti-Semitism in Europe. I can't believe it. Next they'll be telling us how the Jews are poisoning the wells and spreading the plague. Someone needs to do something about this!
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Dhimmis are blind even before they are forced to wear burkas.
I think the word "seep" is misleading. Given that anti-semitism has been widespread in Europe for centuries, and given the incendiary ferocity of anti-semitism exhibited just decades ago, its not too much of a stretch to believe that anti-Israeli propaganda is by and large anti-semitism itself. I don't believe such a level of hate disappears in less than a century. But, nonetheless, the media and academia seem hell-bent on disassociating anti-semitic and anti-Israeli attitudes. Or put another way, the media and academia seem hell-bent on arguing against the obvious...as usual.
Incitement of children. It is the Muslim way.
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