The British education system needs to be decolonized
The genocide committed against the Palestinians over the past 18 months would not have been possible, experts argue, without the dehumanization of the people of Gaza and the West Bank in the media and among politicians, especially in the West, supported by the International Zionist movement.
In keeping with their interpretation of Jewish tradition, the Palestinians are deemed as goyim, gentiles, and so are considered to be subhuman, making their mass murder on a daily basis acceptable to those in charge.
Underpinning this dehumanization of the Palestinians is an education system which prioritizes and gives value to some life over others, and that is what organizers of the conference in Chelmsford, England are seeking to change.
They're focusing, they say, on working to decolonize an inherently racist British education system which is heavily influenced by the Zionist movement.
In order to kill lots and lots of people, you have to present them as being not really human, as Amalek, as Benjamin Netanyahu put it.
But of course, that happens in Israel, as all of us know, but it also happens in the UK and in other countries too, where the Zionists spend a lot of time and effort trying to convince us that Palestinians are not fully human, that Muslims are not fully human, and that's a process which goes on in schools.
David Miller, Academic
Of course, the United Kingdom, being a former imperial power, is a particularly interesting case study.
For the past eight decades, since the end of the Second World War, and thus the British Empire, almost all of the teaching in schools has been aimed at romanticizing and whitewashing the Empire and downplaying, or simply refusing to even mention, the countless atrocities it committed over multiple centuries all across the world.
Panelists say it's vital to support teachers, not just to approach issues of empire and racism more honestly, but also to resist the huge pressure on them from their superiors when it comes to addressing issues like Zionism.
We need to tell children. We need to tell young people who are being educated. This is immoral. This is illegal.
This is against everything that the human society is standing for; international law and local laws, and the children need to be prepared for another future, a future of equality, a future in which there isn't the genocidal state like Israel.
Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, SOAS University of London
To highlight the difficulty of overturning decades if not centuries of imperialist educational programming, this very event came under heavy pressure to be canceled, not just by the Zionist movement, but groups like the so called Palestine Solidarity campaign, who have been trying to herd all opposition to Zionism in the UK to safe and ultimately ineffective protests.
On this occasion, however, those efforts were wasted.
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