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...much the same way that it funded—until now, that is—Arab schools that continued indoctrinating their students with subtle hatred for the state, the Israeli government, with generous subsidies, essentially pays for the rioting Toldot Aharon members of the Eda Haredim community as they perpetuate their own forms of hatred and, ultimately, disloyalty to the state. In just this month alone, they have protested, with the same stone-throwing intensity, the installation of a municipal parking lot near Jerusalem’s tourist-heavy Old City that would remain open on the Sabbath; in late...
...Last week, however, Education Minister Gideon Saar made the controversial decision to remove the term “al-naqba” from textbooks in Israel’s Arab schools. “Al-naqba,” or, in English, “the catastrophe,” describes how some Arabs view the State of Israel’s 1948 establishment. While some outspoken leaders of Israel’s Arab community are outraged over the decision on grounds of “repression” of Arab cultural heritage, Israel simply cannot afford to subsidize...
...During roughly the same week that Saar decided to remove “al-naqba” from textbooks in Arab schools, a real “catastrophe” exploded in the usually quiet, solemn streets of West Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood. There, Jews of the ultra-orthodox Toldot Aharon sect protested en masse the arrest of a mother of five, taken into custody for starving her three-year-old son until he weighed no fewer than seven kilograms. Toldot Aharon is among the most conservative Hasidic sects that constitute Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox...
...While it’s a dangerous game to generalize any sect’s religious beliefs, at least a portion of the Toldot Aharon community—just like the Arab contingent that insists on the continued presence of “al-naqba” in school textbooks—considers the State of Israel an abomination, a presumptuous violation of God’s promise to recreate the Jewish kingdom with the coming of the messiah...
...Israeli government doesn’t begin to show an even-hand to all those who harbor the same destructive disloyalty to the State of Israel—Arab and Jew alike—the traditional Arab perception of a double standard in Israeli domestic affairs may no longer be unfounded. This is perhaps the greatest tragedy...