Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Union of Parents' Committees in Jerusalem threatened today, Tuesday, to launch an open-ended strike for their children in schools in the coming days, if the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Education did not respond to their demand to prevent the imposition of the distorted Israeli curriculum on children. their children.

Lawyer Raed Bashir told Al-Quds.com: “We sent, on behalf of the Union of Parents’ Committees in Jerusalem, to the occupation municipality in Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Education, a message with the demands of the people about (cancelling the distorted curriculum and books, and distributing the correct curriculum), and in the event of failure to respond to the demands, the parents They will take more legal measures and legitimate protest activities, leading to an open strike on education in all schools in Jerusalem.”

Bashir indicated that the parents will take a series of measures, including a warning strike, sit-ins, the distribution and recognition of the Palestinian curriculum, and the return of distorted copies of the curriculum, leading to an open-ended strike. The coming days will be decisive in the form of protest steps.

Bashir stressed that the strike and protest steps are the right of the parents not to force them to teach their children a curriculum they do not want, referring to the comprehensive strike that took place in 1968 against the Israeli curriculum, and the Jordanian curriculum was approved at the time, and the occupation’s attempts to impose the Israeli curriculum failed.

According to lawyer Bashir, the curricula are not only books, but also extracurricular activities, which is what is intended to impose on students and in principle that these activities be with the consent of the parents, as there are 100 malicious programs that are behind our customs and are linked to normalization and Judaization.

Lawyer Bashir stressed that the occupation municipality in Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Education are floundering with their procedures towards Jerusalem schools, which are not based on the law, but rather are carried out by orgy, and are trying to criminalize the Palestinian curriculum .

The letter, which was sent from the office of Attorney Bashir on behalf of the Parents Union in Jerusalem, confirmed that the distortion of the Palestinian curricula is contrary to the law and regulations and is an attack on the right to education, in addition to an attack on intellectual property and the rights of authors, and according to the rules and regulations it is supposed to distribute books approved by the Ministry of Education Palestinian.

In their letter, the parents stressed that forcing students to follow certain curricula is against the law, and that some inspectors send warning messages to principals is reprehensible and reprehensible, while the letter emphasized that threatening schools to withdraw licenses, close them, and punish principals and educational staff are methods and procedures that have no legal basis.

Parents emphasized that the distortion and distortion over the course of more than ten years, especially this year, includes evidence and contents that lead to intellectual confusion, and apart from its political purposes by eliminating the Palestinian narrative, the books have become defective, carrying contradictions and educationally ill.

The letter stressed the right of the parents to distribute the curricula that they deem appropriate, and that it is the right to guarantee all the laws and regulations in force, and "you must do it, not give your instructions to pursue those who distribute it," according to the letter.

The letter continued, "In addition, you introduce extracurricular activities without obtaining approvals from the parents and parents' committees, and this matter is contrary to regulations and laws, and most of these activities have malicious purposes, and contradict the Palestinian heritage, religion, customs and traditions."

The letter emphasized that "in the event that the aforementioned demands are not met, parents will take further legal measures and legitimate protest activities, leading to an open strike on education in all schools in Jerusalem."

Since the beginning of the current academic year, protests have escalated against the attempts of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Education to impose the distorted Israeli curriculum on Jerusalem schools, and it was preceded by a notification to withdraw recognition of six Jerusalem schools if they continued to teach the Palestinian curriculum.