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http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.611822For me, personally, Arabs are something I cant look at and cant stand, a 10th-grade girl from a high school in the central part of the country says in abominable Hebrew. I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I get the chance in the army to shoot one of them, I wont think twice. Im ready to kill someone with my hands, and its an Arab. In my education I learned that ... their education is to be terrorists, and there is no belief in them. I live in an area of Arabs, and every day I see these Ishmaelites, who pass by the [bus] station and whistle. I wish them death....
The book is nothing short of a page-turner, especially now, following the overt displays of racism and hatred of the Other that have been revealed in the country in the past month or so. Maybe revealed isnt the right word, as it suggests surprise at the intensity of the phenomenon. But Yarons descriptions of what he saw at the school show that such hatred is a basic everyday element among youth, and a key component of their identity. Yaron portrays the hatred without rose-colored glasses or any attempt to present it as a sign of social unity. What he observed is unfiltered hatred. One conclusion that arises from the text is how little the education system is able or wants to deal with the racism problem. ...
Much of the chapter on racism revolves around the Bible lessons in a ninth-grade class, whose theme was revenge. The class starts, and the students suggestions of examples of revenge are written on the blackboard, the teacher told Yaron. A student named Yoav insists that revenge is an important emotion. He utilizes the material being studied to hammer home his semi-covert message: All the Arabs should be killed. The class goes into an uproar. Five students agree with Yoav and say openly: The Arabs should be killed.
One student relates that he heard in the synagogue on Shabbat that Aravim zeh erev rav (Arabs are a rabble, in a play on words), and also Amalek, and there is a commandment to kill them all, a reference to the prototypical biblical enemy of the Children of Israel. Another student says he would take revenge on anyone who murdered his family, but would not kill them all.
The book is nothing short of a page-turner, especially now, following the overt displays of racism and hatred of the Other that have been revealed in the country in the past month or so. Maybe revealed isnt the right word, as it suggests surprise at the intensity of the phenomenon. But Yarons descriptions of what he saw at the school show that such hatred is a basic everyday element among youth, and a key component of their identity. Yaron portrays the hatred without rose-colored glasses or any attempt to present it as a sign of social unity. What he observed is unfiltered hatred. One conclusion that arises from the text is how little the education system is able or wants to deal with the racism problem. ...
Much of the chapter on racism revolves around the Bible lessons in a ninth-grade class, whose theme was revenge. The class starts, and the students suggestions of examples of revenge are written on the blackboard, the teacher told Yaron. A student named Yoav insists that revenge is an important emotion. He utilizes the material being studied to hammer home his semi-covert message: All the Arabs should be killed. The class goes into an uproar. Five students agree with Yoav and say openly: The Arabs should be killed.
One student relates that he heard in the synagogue on Shabbat that Aravim zeh erev rav (Arabs are a rabble, in a play on words), and also Amalek, and there is a commandment to kill them all, a reference to the prototypical biblical enemy of the Children of Israel. Another student says he would take revenge on anyone who murdered his family, but would not kill them all.
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Israeli teenagers: Racist and proud of it (Original Post)
KamaAina
Aug 2014
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msongs
(67,407 posts)1. so will the Israelite media call out this anti-semitism? probably not nt
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)3. Israelites? They don't exist. As for calling out anti-Semitism...
...there was no mention of anti-Jewish philosophies.
Of course, you realize that Ha'aretz is an ISRAELI publication, right?
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)2. Jewish Neo-Nazis?
wow.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)4. Lousy parenting
How else would young Israelis grow up to be ignorant racists? Israeli parents are to blame for keeping the hate alive.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)5. I don't know which is more scary and disgusting
this or the little Muslim girl playing "off with the head" with that doll.
Man, the ME is one fucked-up place home to a lot of terminally fucked-up people.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)6. Uh oh. nt
4now
(1,596 posts)7. Good Night Left Side
closeupready
(29,503 posts)8. Sad. Regardless, I will NEVER renounce my support for Palestinians.
Nor for Israelis. Peace is the ONLY way forward.
Marr
(20,317 posts)9. We need to stop funding Israel.
I don't expect any sort of peaceful solution there. I just want to stop giving them our tax money.