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How Textbooks and Children's Shows in America Became Hamasified
(Commentary) Seth Mandel - A state hearing involving the Massachusetts Teachers Association discussed a workbook for kids in kindergarten and first grade called Handala's Return, which featured on its front page a map of Israel and Gaza and the West Bank all labeled "Palestine." Israel did not exist. Handala explains that "Zionists" took her family's home by force and won't let her back even though she has the key. The students are then asked to draw their own home and key, presumably to imagine their own sadness were the Jews to come and take their home away. At the end of the workbook is a page titled "Help Handala Free Palestine." The students are instructed to write what they will do to "raise funds for the children of Palestine" and what they will chant at a "Palestine protest." There have been endless examples of antisemitism in American grade-school lesson plans. Young children are being drafted as child soldiers into "the Palestinian struggle."