Targeting Jerusalem schools and students

Targeting Jerusalem schools and students is not a new thing. This targeting has been going on in full swing since the occupation of the city in 1967 until today, but what is new is that this targeting is currently witnessing a fierce attack aimed at imposing the false Israeli curriculum on the city’s schools, and preventing these schools from teaching the Palestinian curriculum under allegations This approach contains incitement against the occupying state, while the truth is completely different.

The fierce attack targeting schools and students is part of the occupying state's attempts to Israeliize education in the city. Especially after America recognized, through the former US president, that Jerusalem is the capital of the occupying state, in clear defiance of international resolutions that consider the city occupied. The occupying state does not have the right to impose the false Israeli curriculum on the city’s schools, and the occupying state’s claims that the Palestinian curriculum is inciting, are false and baseless. The schools of the occupying state in particular, and the religious and Talmudic schools in particular, are the ones that incite the killing of Palestinians, describe them as strangers, and falsify history and facts. The Israeli curriculum, which it is working to forcefully impose, aims to obscure the awareness of Palestinian students, and make them believe in the false Israeli narrative, which claims the right of the Jews to the country, and that the Palestinians have no right to it. Although the Palestinians are an extension of the Canaanites who founded this country, lived in it, and built a civilization without which human history has surpassed it.

For example, but not limited to, as part of this fierce attack on schools and students, the occupation police and forces yesterday searched the bags of students from two schools located inside the sanctuary of the Holy Mosque, confiscated Palestinian books, and prevented the students from carrying them. This is a clear challenge to international laws and norms, in addition to the terror they are doing to students, especially young ones, in an attempt to intimidate them and prevent them from carrying and studying the Palestinian curriculum, which is a normal curriculum that teaches them the true Arab, Islamic and Christian history of the city, and that Jerusalem is Palestinian and Arab since its founding by the Canaanites, as well as other sciences and the Islamic religion, from which the Israeli curriculum was removed from what contradicts the falsification carried out by the occupying state.

The occupying state also aims to intimidate and induce schools to force schools in Jerusalem to teach the Israeli curriculum. It threatens not to renew the licenses of these schools and to close them if they do not teach the Israeli curriculum. In this context, it attempted to open schools that teach the Israeli curriculum, but the parents’ refusal to do so will prevent the passage of this plan.

A few days ago, in this context, the occupation forces confiscated the Palestinian curriculum books from a car that was transporting them to Jerusalem and arrested the driver to terrorize him and prevent him in the coming days from carrying the Palestinian curriculum books.

This fierce attack, especially the attempts of the occupying state to impose new teachers and replace teachers who teach the Palestinian curriculum and threaten to expel them from their jobs, will have negative repercussions on students, schools and teachers, unless the Palestinian side moves at all levels to stop the Israeli violations and targeting of education in Jerusalem. And not being satisfied, as is happening now, with issuing statements of denunciation and calling on the world to intervene, while this world only recognizes the strong, and we have the power. But the continued political and geographical division is what weakens us, and the occupation will exploit it for the benefit of its threatening plans and the Israelization of education.