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Ramadan Vol.1 Issue 62 December 2023 ELITE

Kareem

<Death to Arabs: History of the big lie=

Farida Mohamed - second level- Political Sciences

As the world faces a massive genocide in Gaza, we The goal is the traumatization, the stimulation of
never really questioned how the Israeli citizens react revenge and not letting the fire of vengeance die out,
to genocide by sharing their <victory=, the but this vengeance is no directed towards the
dehumanizing posts on social media, and statements German persecutors of the past but towards
like <We want to kill Arabs=. Palestinian colonized subjects who are Nazified.
The answer is they’ve been conditioned to. It starts in The main political agenda of Israel directed to the
their education system. According to the research of western imagination and even to the Israeli citizens,
the Israeli professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan, is national policy dictated in schools, while ensuring
Palestinians or <Arabs= are shown, in the Israeli that nothing messes with the made-up narrative that
textbooks, as caricatures of primitive farmers, hordes Israeli trying to tell about itself.
of refugees or masked as terrorists, Palestinians are The fact that Palestinians had nothing to do with the
represented as the <problem= and the <threat=. Holocaust and that they are the ones currently being
In another perspective, the Israeli map found in their exterminated seems to be irrelevant. With this
textbooks doesn’t even include the occupied West weaponization of the Holocaust, Zionism isn't seen
Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the East Jerusalem and for the colonial racist ideology that it is, but as the
that’s how you end up with normalizing illegal savior of the Jewish people to justify the violence of
settlers colonizing Palestinian lands claiming it’s their the Zionist state that must exist and do whatever is
necessary to defend itself so that another Holocaust
God-given right. In addition to that, Israeli students would never happen again, and to exist safely, seeing
are taught about the Holocaust starting from nursery Palestinians as people who want to live in peace and
school by showing horrifying images of their be free, doesn't fit into that plan.
ancestors, to put them in the shoes of the victims and
relate to the experience. The identification of the
students with these victims is not a coincidence, it’s
an intentional policy by the Israeli ministry of
education and it’s how you end up with a society
where according to an Israeli professor <Every
Jewish Israeli citizen is a Holocaust survivor or a
potential victim of future Holocaust-like events=.

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