Where do you find Israeli kids being taught such? It's been documented that many Muslim countries, not just the Palestinians, have propaganda in their school books. It's just a fact that they have programs on Palestinian television encouraging suicide bombing, calling for the end of Israel, etc., aimed at the Sesame Street crowd. I've yet to see anything comparable, actually anything encouraging hate towards Palestinians. Now there may well be some problems with the Orthodox that keep wanting to build inside Gaza, but that isn't the Israeli television, news papers, schools, or main body of Israelis.
yes.. It's a totally exotic beast to see people like Allie rationalize the plight of an ethnic population based on the actions of a few.
But, if you think israel is innocent of such I suggest you mozy on over to jpost.com and read some feedback. or..
In the article "The Arab Image in Hebrew School Textbooks" by professor Dan Bar-Tal of the Tel Aviv University makes a study of 124 textbooks used in Israeli schools and reports that "over the years, generations of Israeli Jews were taught a negative and often delegitimizing view of Arabs." The two main traits of Arabs in the textbooks are "primitiveness, inferiority in comparison to Jews" and "their violence, to characteristics like brutality, untrustworthiness, cruelty, fanaticism, treacherousness and aggressiveness.". In the 1980s and 1990s "Geography books for the elementary and junior high schools stereotype Arabs negatively, as primitive, dirty, agitated, aggressive, and hostile to Jews Â… history books in the elementary schools hardly mention Arabs Â… history textbooks of the high schools, the majority of which cover the Arab-Jewish conflict, stereotype the Arabs negatively. Arabs are presented as intransigent and uncompromising."
In 2007 the Association for Civil Rights in Israel released a report claiming that the expression of anti-Arab views had doubled, and anti-Arab racist incidents had increased by 26%.[51] The report quoted polls that suggested, 50% of Jewish Israelis do not believe Arab citizens of Israel should have equal rights, 50% said they wanted the government to encourage Arab emigration from Israel, and 75% of Jewish youths said Arabs were less intelligent and less clean than Jews.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Arabism
The Follow-Up Committee for Arab Education notes that the Israeli government spends an average of $192 per year on each Arab student compared to $1,100 per Jewish student. The drop-out rate for Arab citizens of Israel is twice as high as that of their Jewish counterparts (12 percent versus 6 percent). The same group also notes that there is a 5,000-classroom shortage in the Arab sector.[150
Intercommunal relations
Public attitudes
There are significant tensions between Arab citizens and their Jewish counterparts. A 2006 poll commissioned by the Arab advocacy group, The Center for the Struggle Against Racism, found that: 63% of Jews believe Arabs are a security threat; 68% of Jews would refuse to live in the same building as an Arab; 34% of Jews believe that Arab culture is inferior to Israeli culture. Additionally, support for segregation between Jewish and Arab citizens was found to be higher among Jews of Middle Eastern origin than those of European origin.[164]
In December 2007, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel reported a "dramatic increase" in racism against Arab citizens, including a 26 percent rise in anti-Arab incidents. According to ACRI president Sami Michael, "Israeli society is reaching new heights of racism that damages freedom of expression and privacy".[165]
A recent poll conducted by the Center of Anti-Racism based on questions asked to 500 selective Jewish residents of Israel representing all levels of the Jewish society showed unexpectedly negative attitudes towards Arabs. According to the official results:
* 75% would not agree to live in a building with Arab residents.
* More than 60% wouldn't accept any Arab visitors at their homes.
* About 40% agree upon taking the right to vote from Arabs.
* More than 50% agree that the State should encourage immigration of Arab citizens to other states.
* More than 59% think that the culture of Arabs is a primitive culture.
When asked "What do you feel when you hear people speaking Arabic?" 31% said they feel hate and 50% said they feel fear, with only 19% stating positive or neutral feelings.[166]
A 2007 poll conducted by Sami Smoocha, a sociologist at Haifa University, found that
* 63.3% of Israeli Jews said they avoid entering Arab towns and cities
* 68.4% of Israeli Jews fear the possibility of widespread civil unrest among Israeli Arabs
* 49.7% of Israeli Arabs said Hizbullah's capture of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in a cross-border raid was justified
* 18.7% of Israeli Arabs thought Israel was justified in going to war following the kidnapping
* The fact that Arab Israelis were affected, and some wounded and killed due to Hezbollah rocket fire did not make an apparent impact on Arab opinion. 48.2% said they believed that Hizbullah's rocket attacks on northern Israel during that war were justified
* 89.1% of Israeli Arabs said they viewed the IDF's bombing of Lebanon as a war crime
* 44% of Israeli Arabs said they viewed Hizbullah's bombing of Israel as a war crime
* 62% of Israeli Arabs worry that Israel could transfer their communities to the jurisdiction of a future Palestinian state
* 60% of Israeli Arabs said they are concerned about a possible mass expulsion
* 76% of Israeli Arabs described Zionism as racist
* 67.5% of Israeli Arabs said they would be content to live in the Jewish state, if it existed alongside a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
* 28% of Israeli Arabs deny the Holocaust; among high school and college graduates the figure was even higher (33%)[64]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Arab#Discrimination
