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Jewish Youth Are Indoctrinated From a Young Age in Jewish Day School to Blindly Support Israel and View Palestinians With Contempt(covertactionmagazine.com)

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penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 3 months ago

American culture overflows with accusations from parents that their kids went off to college only to be “indoctrinated.” But at least in these instances, the opposite is what happened—far from being brainwashed, the kids read books and learned history, and were forced to think hard about the implications. In other words, higher education did exactly what it is supposed to do—forced students to encounter and engage with perspectives and thinkers they otherwise never would have.

RandomCollection[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 3 months ago

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It is always important to consider the ways in which assumptions held uncritically can lead one astray, especially assumptions ingrained from a young age, before people possess the capacity to sufficiently question what they are being told. Israelism is a powerful, thought-provoking film that does this spectacularly. And it does so for a topic that does not get as much attention as it should. Discussions of Christian propaganda are fairly common (again, think of Jesus Camp, or even With God on Our Side), as are denunciations of the kind of Islamic fundamentalist propaganda that comes out of places like Saudi Arabia.

It is almost too easy to go after the Mormons or the Scientologists. But the indoctrination taking place in many Jewish schools gets comparatively little attention. I have written previously of my admiration for people, like Naomi Klein, who frankly discuss the troubling fact that Israeli PR defined much of their early schooling. It is important to have an entire film devoted to the subject. People might not like what they see, but they need to see it.

Essentially the education system is fundamentally rotten.

If the education system is teaching that one race or religion is superior, that's messed up.

Maniak🥃😾 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 3 months ago

Child indoctrination is always bad, one of the worst things that can be done given that it can stick through and affect their entire lives, be transmitted to their own offspring and be extremely difficult not to mention painful to deprogram after the fact. Hence why the organizations who profit from it are so focused on targeting kids as early as possible.

Yet for some reason it gets a pass, especially in the US, when it's done for religious purposes, at least when it's christianity, and it gets a "don't even dare talk about it" pass when it's about Israel.

Gee I wonder why.

penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 3 months ago

Saw an interview with Max Blumenthal where he said he grew up going to these schools. I don't remember what event began to open his eyes. I think Aaron Mate always had his eyes open because his father understood the problem.