A 13-year-old girl was suspended from school last week after she expressed concern for Palestinian children in Gaza during a class discussion on Hamas’s October 7 massacre, according to Hebrew media reports.
According to Channel 12 News, when it was her turn to speak, the girl, a member of the Arab Bedouin community, mentioned that innocent children were killed in Gaza. “There are hungry children in Gaza, there are children without a home,” she reportedly said during the discussion.
Following a heated incident after the class in which dozens of other students cursed the girl and threw things at her, she was suspended for three days.
She also said that since October 7, students have repeatedly asked her if she supports the Hamas terror group because she wears a hijab headscarf.
“The students started telling me: ‘Our soldiers are not murderers,’ even though I didn’t say that… and others cursed me,” the girl told Haaretz. “They asked me if I supported Palestine, and I said no and that I only support the small children in Gaza returning to their homes.”
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Ibn Bari charged that the school’s decision to suspend the girl was “extreme and even illegal,” adding that the other students had chanted, “May your village burn,” and accused her of disrespecting Israel Defense Force troops serving in Gaza after she expressed concern for Palestinian children.
For some time now it’s become logical that the way to maintain sanity among Israelis would be to maintain a comfortable fiction instead of facing reality. It follows that anyone attempting to poke holes in the fiction would be ostracised in order to maintain it. The alternative would be too painful. It would mean they have unequivocally failed to refrain from doing to others what was done unto them. Of course not everyone is in with the program so there would likely be a growing rift between those that want to keep living in the fantasy and those that don’t.
I guess somewhat unsurprisingly a rift might open up between Israeli Arabs and Jews:
Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/
I would like to point out here that the vast majority identify as Palestinian with Israeli passport rather than „Israeli Arab“ which is another Zionist term that seeks to eradicate people’s Palestinian identity. Apart from thar I fully agree with your post.
Not that your claim was hard to believe, but because I like being well-sourced, I looked it up and you’re correct:
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Seems like international media should find a better label for them.
They’re doing what they’re doing on purpose. They’re complicit in helping to erase a national identity during a genocide.
Thanks! I should have provided the source in the first place to maintain a good discussion culture.