Anti Israel Indoctrination At Newton, MA High School

Published on Apr 6, 2016
New Video Exposes Bias and Bigotry in Newton High Schools

https://youtu.be/JpSPOInxZYo

Anti Semitism In Public Schools

Anti Israel Indoctrination @ Newton High School April 7, 2016

New Video Exposes Bias and Bigotry in Newton High Schools

Anti-Israel Indoctrination Masquerading as “Critical Thinking”

Indoctrination @ Newton High, a new video released today by Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), exposes a pattern of anti-Israel teachings found in Newton, Massachusetts high schools, including:
Newton’s high schools have used Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) maps that falsify the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Newton students were not told that the maps were created by the PLO’s propaganda unit.



Newton’s schools presented students with a falsified version of the Hamas Charter. In Newton’s doctored version the word ”Jews” – as a target of hatred — is replaced with the word “Zionists.”
In one lesson, Newton students are asked to consider the Jewish state’s right to exist. (The legitimacy of no other nation-state’s existence is questioned.) The lesson included “expert” opinions, which are drawn overwhelmingly from anti-Israel academics and anti-Semitic activists.
A book used in Newton high schools has a recommended reading list that includes the extremist writings by Muslim Brotherhood leaders including Sayyid Qutb, and Yusuf Qaradawi, whose sermons call for the murder of Jews and homosexuals.

https://youtu.be/l_6w1nujk2Q

Students Expose Newton, MA School Chief Plagiarizing Governor's Speech

Smart cookies: Graduates Jordan Cohen-Kaplan (above) was at both graduations and noticed some of what Fleishman said sounded oddly familiar. He called the principal out in his school newspaper alongside fellow graduate Kylie Walters (below)


[From article]
David Fleishman, who heads Newton Public Schools, will see his $254,000 salary reduced by $4,890 for blatantly stealing some five lines from Gov. Deval Patrick without proper attribution and using them in two of his addresses to graduates in his district, according to the Boston Globe.
One student, Jordan Cohen-Kaplan, was at Boston University on May 18 when the governor delivered his speech with lines such as: 'Real human connection, the nuance of empathy and understanding, is often more gradual and elongated than Twitter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708741/Schools-chief-docked-pay-students-catch-plagiarizing-remarks-governor.html

Schools chief docked a week's pay after students catch him plagiarizing remarks from governor
Superintendent David Fleishman, of Newton Public Schools, loses $4,890
He blatantly lifted some five lines from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's speech weeks earlier at Boston University
Students Jordan Cohen-Kaplan and Kylie Walters called Fleishman out in high school newspaper article, prompting fine
By PEDRO OLIVEIRA JR.
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 13:07 EST, 28 July 2014 | UPDATED: 14:08 EST, 28 July 2014

Two Mass DAs Refuse to Prosecute an Accused Child Predator

David Ettlinger, 35, accused of sexually assaulting three children, will serve a 45-year federal child-porn sentence.


Gerard T. Leone, Middlesex (MA) District Attorney (left) with Daniel F. Conley, Suffolk County (MA) District Attorney

The conclusion of the two District Attorneys indicate they may have a simplistic view of their own business. What prevents this gentleman from obtaining an attorney and vacating the sentence and setting him free? 

[From article]
“Given the length of the defendant’s federal sentence, the fact that he will be placed on lifetime supervised release upon its completion, the likelihood of intense media coverage of the state trials, the possibility that any state sentence could be ordered served concurrent with his federal sentence, and the requests of the families involved, prosecutors determined that the most appropriate course of action was not to prosecute their respective cases further,” the DAs said in a joint statement.


http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/sex_abuse_charges_dropped_against_ex_newton_elementary_teacher

Sex abuse charges dropped against ex-Newton elementary teacher
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Boston Herald
By: John Zaremba

Reelabilities Boston Disability Film Festival

[From Cambridge Commission on Disabilities]

Feb. 2  Second Annual ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival presents The Straight Line with Audio Description at the MFA – Run in Boston by the Boston Jewish Film Festival, this film festival is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities. This film is in French with English open captions and Audio Descriptions (including English translation and scene description). The Straight Line is a taut French sports drama about a blind runner, who trains with a former athlete with a criminal past. Josh Crary, who authors the Boston Blind Runner blog and will run the Boston Marathon for the second time in April, will speak after the film, which is being held at 7pm at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $10. Visit <www.bjff.org/reelabilities>, email <info@bjff.org> or call 617‑244‑9899 for more info.

Feb. 3  ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival presents Body and Soul at the MFA –This powerful and uplifting documentary, which is in Portuguese with English open captions, follows three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities. Their resilient daily lives reveal their physical, psychological and emotional challenges. Dr. Jeanne Marie Penvenne, social and labor historian of colonial Mozambique and history professor at Tufts University, will be present to introduce Body and Soul. The film will be screened at the MFA at noon, and tickets are $4. See Feb. 2 ReelAbilities listing for more information, including location and contact.

Feb. 3  ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival presents Me, Too at the MFA –In this gripping Spanish drama (with English open captions), Daniel, a recent college graduate with Down Syndrome forges a strong bond with vivacious workmate Laura, but their burgeoning relationship turns complicated when he professes his love to her. This film questions modern relationships and conceptions of “normality” as the couple grapples with their need to connect. The film will be screened at the MFA at 2:15pm and tickets are $4. See Feb. 2 ReelAbilities listing for more information, including location and contact.

Feb. 4  Parent Information Session for Heads Up – Did you know that mentoring can improve friendships, family relationships, and school attendance? Heads Up is a new mentoring program at Cambridge Family & Children’s Service (CFCS), connecting youth and caring adults who have a family member with a mental health need. Come learn how Heads Up staff engage mentors, mentees, and families in order to ensure a safe, successful, and fulfilling relationship for your child. The Information Session will from 6-7pm at CFCS, 60 Gore St. in Cambridge, right by the Lechmere MBTA & bus stop. Limited childcare is available upon request. To RSVP or for more information, contact Yelena Tsilker at 617‑876‑4210 x141 or by email at <ytsilker@helpfamilies.org>.

Feb. 4  ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival presents a FREE screening of  Mabul  at the JCC in Newton – In this award-winning Israeli film (in Hebrew with English open captions), Yoni studies his bar mitzvah portion about the story of Noah’s Ark amidst a troubled family, and life gets complicated when older brother Tomer, who is autistic, returns home. Note: mild sexual content. This screening will be held at 6:30pm at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center (JCC), 333 Nahanton St. in Newton. For more information about the JCC, email <info@jccgb.org> or call 617‑558‑6522. See Feb. 2 ReelAbilities listing for more information about the Film Festival.

Feb. 5  ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival presents  Princess in West Newton – Cheerful, delusional Anna lives in a Finnish psychiatric hospital believing she is an English royal. Can “Princess” escape a dangerous lobotomy, a cutting-edge psychiatric treatment in the mid-20th century, the period in which the film is set? The film is in Finnish with English open captions and will be held 7pm at the West Newton Cinema, 1296 Washington Street/Route 16 in West Netwon. Social worker and local therapist Goldie Eder will moderate a panel about the portrayal of mentally ill characters in contemporary film following the screening. Tickets are $10 each. See <www.westnewtoncinema.com> or call617‑964‑8074 for information about the Cinema, and please refer to the Feb. 2 ReelAbilities listing for more information about the Film Festival.

Mar. 2  Disability Reframed Presents:  Benda Bilili! – Join us for a free screening of this 2010 documentary film, followed by a lively audience discussion. This screening will be held from 2pm to 5pm at the Salvation Army Kroc Community Center, 650 Dudley Street in Dorchester.  Benda Bilili! follows a group of homeless musicians with disabilities living on the streets of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as they form a group called Staff Benda Bilili and eventually reach a worldwide acclaim. "Benda Bilili" means "look beyond appearances" in Lingala, one of the native languages of the Congo.  For sign language interpreters or other accommodations, please contact the Boston Commission for Persons with Disabilities by February 22 at 617‑-635-‑3682 (voice) or 617-635-2541 (TTY) or e-mail disability@cityofboston.gov.  Sponsored by the Salvation Army Kroc Center, Boston Commission for Persons with Disabilities and Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities.  Join Disability Reframed: A Community Film Series on Facebook!

[From 

ThePhoenix.com/movies

January 25, 2013

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Reelabilities Boston Disability Film Festival

Though Hollywood occasionally dramatizes the Plight of the disabled and mentally ill - as in this year's highly touted films The Sessions and Silver Linings Playbook - it's not a subject they're very comfortable with. For a more enlightening look at how those faced by various mental and physical challenges cope and prevail, don't miss this series of nine films that runs through February 5, 2013. It starts on January 31, 2013 with Adam Elliot's animated Mary and Max (2009), in which Philip Seymour Hoffman voices the latter character, a Jewish man from New York with Asperger's Syndrome, who pursues a pen pal relationship with mary (Toni Collette), as an unhappy eight-year-old living in Australia.

West Newton Cinema

1296 Washington Street,

West Newton, MA

7:00 PM $10

617-964-8074 or

boston.reelabilities.org

Explanation for Anti-Israel Curricular Materials in Newton Mass. Schools

Newton School Battle: Report from the Trenches

Last night 7 of us attended the Newton School Committee meeting to continue our fight to get the Committee to publicly recant the lesson that was taught at Newton South High School, to apologize to the community and to warn other school boards about attempts to insert anti-Semitic materials into public school class rooms.

In an effort to thwart us, the Committee Chair, Clair Sokoloff, limited the time each of us could speak to three minutes. In the past we were allowed six.

Even under these conditions, we made our points which, by the way, are all televised as part of the normal procedure to put these meetings on Newton local cable.

Margot Einstein, the leader of our grass roots group led off reading an account of a meeting she and a parent had with the Curriculum head of the school, in which the parent was told that if she didn’t like what was in the curriculum, she could send her child to another school. Margot also read from the School Department’s website – which clearly states that parents can have access to curricular material……. So far, the school has not complied with its own rules.

Below are the remarks I prepared, thinking I had 6 minutes…. I rushed to cut these remarks in half.

Stay tuned,

Charles Jacobs



Remarks to the School Committee, January 14, 2013:



At the last meeting, Superintendent David Fleishman, addressed the issue of our concern: the use of racist and anti-Semitic materials in the Newton high schools. I’d like to respond to Mr. Fleishman’s remarks, which he has also posted on the school website.

We have been protesting and complaining to you for two years about a Saudi funded effort to defame the Jewish people and Israel that had slipped by school authorities and wound up being taught in at Newton South.

Newton students learned, from a handout in the Arab World Studies Notebook that Jews torture and kill Arab women in Israeli jails. The American Jewish Committee and others have characterized that Notebook as a propaganda tool produced by Saudi Arabia with intent to harm Jews in American classrooms.

We learned about this from a student at South who came home and asked her father if indeed Jews kill women in Israeli jails.

Because of the controversy this created, Jewish people have been coming here and asking for you to set the record straight about Jews killing Arab women and jails… and … by the way -- to date no one sitting in front of me has identified this as a lie. Not one of you….  Is it a lie, Mr. Fleishman?

1.    And as you know Matt Hills and I have had opposing op eds in the Tab,

2.    and I have published articles in the Jewish Advocate,

3.    and the largest synagogue in Newton, Matt Hills synagogue, was because of this controversy, host to a three hour seminar on the problem of anti-Jewish materials in the public schools, which over a hundred people attended.

So now David Fleishman issues a statement intended to put this to rest.

First he says, the Arab World Studies Notebook has been removed from both high schools. Not because it is Saudi-produced hate literature, and not because of all the embarrassing publicity, No. It was removed, he says, and I quote: “there was a general sense that the materials were ….outdated.” Mr. Fleishman, the Bible is pretty old. The Constitution is over 200 years old…. You haven’t removed them.

The Arab World Studies Notebook is only 20 years old. So please….. It is hard for us to believe that you removed it because it is “outdated.”

So the real question is why don’t you all just come clean? Why not be honest about it? How hard can it be to say  “We messed up. They got one past us. We’re going now to warn other school districts about the Arab World Studies Note book. We’re sorry.”

Instead, Mr. Fleishman goes to enormous lengths to twist what happened.

In his statement, he tells us that nobody taught lies about the Jews, really. But that this is simply a way that we teach critical thinking.

But there is only one legitimate way to teach about propaganda: that is to label it propaganda. That’s what excellent programs do.

I’m sure you all know the program Facing History and Ourselves. Many area schools use the Facing History Book about the Eugenics movement to specifically discuss the racism underlying the Nazi ideology.  False information, properly explicated, can certainly be used responsibly  -- in this case to reveal the ludicrous proposition that some people are "less human" than others.  Similarly information from the KKK or a book like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion could be used in the same way, if there is a clear context about its hate and bias and racism.

But you indicate that the teacher did not say to the class, “here is a piece of anti-Semitic propaganda. We are going to teach you how propaganda works. Some people hate other people and they invent slick lies about them. We are going to show you KKK materials that deride black intelligence; mysogenous materials about how women can’t do math; fundamentalist materials about gays and “abomination,” and the grand daddy of them all, we are going to show you how the Arab world has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to teach hatred toward the Jews of Israel. When you are done, you’ll understand and be on your guard.

That, Mr Fleishman, would be academically excellent critical thinking….

That is the only responsible way teach about propaganda. It is wrong and unprofessional to teach lies as "one side of an argument.

Your method, if that’s what it was, failed: Mr. Pagliuso’s daughter came home thinking that maybe Jews torture and murder women. Because your teacher called the canard that Jews kill women in jail “a biased perspective” not a hateful lie.

And as we sit here today, STILL, nobody at the table in front of me is willing to tell her that it is a lie.

If I may…. One other point: why did you only use hate literature about Jews and not about anyone else?

You know of course what would happen if you trotted out a KKK piece on blacks, don’t you. No amount of dancing around “critical thinking” would save you from the storm of community indignation… you wouldn’t dare use the words the KKK uses about blacks…. But you used Arab hate propaganda against Jews and you still won’t call it lies. Even here.  Even in front of these cameras.

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Support us in spirit (join us if you can) as we speak before the Newton School Committee, demanding access to curricula and an honest explanation for the anti-Semitic materials that slipped into a high school class. After a year of effort, a grass roots group of Jews and Christian supporters got material from the Arab World Studies Notebook removed from the Newton high curriculum. One worksheet taught students that Jews in Israel torture and kill Arab women in Israeli jails. The Superintendent finally issued an official explanation that is appallingly transparent. The students were not taught this as truth, he said. They were only given the "lesson" as part of a critical thinking exercise. "We don't tell them what's true. We only teach them how to think." Imagine! The Newton public schools chose an anti-Semitic story to teach critical thinking.... without ever telling the students that it was a lie! Would they have used a KKK worksheet on black IQ? No. Would they use a misogynist worksheet on women's problems in thinking mathematically? How about a homophobe worksheet on "abominations?" Never! Only the Jews get the "critical thinking" treatment.....We want the school department to tell the simple truth: that they let slip some hate literature into our schools and will warn others and never do it again!

Woman Accuses Newton MA Police Chief

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220829newton_police_chief_on_leave_faces_hearing/

Newton police chief on leave, faces hearing
Boston Herald
By O’Ryan Johnson
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Second Newton MA Man Held On Child Porn

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220125another_child_porn_arrest_rocks_newton/

Another child porn arrest rocks Newton
By Matt Stout
Boston Herald
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Newton MA Teacher With Child Porn on Computer

This is a surprise to parents? In what world were they living before this happened? Clueless citizens vote for criminals while the clued in corporations and interest groups rule spineless politicians and bureaucracies with relaxed rectitude. What would these parents say if they knew how much money is being wasted and stolen by the greedy bozos who run their city and their state?

[From article]
“All of the parents I’ve talked to are shocked and disappointed that we live in a world where you can’t trust anybody,” she said.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220118newton_teacher_held_on_kid-porn_charges/

Newton teacher held on kid-porn charges
By Christine McConville and Natalie Sherman
Boston Herald
Wednesday, January 18, 2012