Some teachers are fine as individuals, but when you put them in a group, the result is disaster. In America, teachers’ unions are the most malign influence on our public life, and on our children. And they aren’t any better in Great Britain. The London Times headlines: “Teaching union is accused of hostility to Jews.”
The UK’s largest teaching union has been accused of being hostile to Jewish teachers after it said Israel had a hard-right racist government that was fuelling the conflict in Gaza.
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Daniel Kebede, the new NEU general secretary, has said the union has a strong history of “standing in solidarity with Palestine” and has urged rallies to “globalise the intifada”.
“Globalize the intifada” means making it impossible for Jews to live safely anywhere.
The motion says: “Israel’s current hard-right, racist government is the main driver of conflict, violence and war in Palestine and Israel. Israel is guilty of apartheid policies under international law and this underpins the ongoing deadly conflict. The UK government must stop being an enabler of Israel’s apartheid policies, violence and anti-Palestinian racism.”
Taken straight from Hamas propaganda. One has to wonder, why have teachers come to play a negative role in some western countries? The issue of Gaza is just one instance of many; the schools’ efforts to inculcate gender confusion are another. It is a big question to which I don’t pretend to know the answer. But somewhere, the West’s educational systems (some of them, anyway) have gone badly off the rails and are now a threat to our societies, rather than a support, as they should be. It is not unreasonable to think that the collapse of public education is the single greatest problem facing the United States and other western nations.
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