{"id":7969,"date":"2023-05-16T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T22:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=7969"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:05:22","slug":"hate-speech-in-schools-petition-accepted-by-national-mp-simon-oconnor-as-eu-links-the-education-to-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2023\/05\/hate-speech-in-schools-petition-accepted-by-national-mp-simon-oconnor-as-eu-links-the-education-to-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate speech in schools: petition accepted by National MP, Simon O\u2019Connor, as EU links the education to terror"},"content":{"rendered":"
National MP, Simon O\u2019Connor has accepted a petition from the Israel Institute of New Zealand<\/a> (IINZ) calling on the government to stop funding schools that glorify terror and incite violence. It will be presented in parliament today.<\/p>\r\n For decades, New Zealand has funded UNRWA, which operates schools in which children are exposed to lessons that glorify the murder of Jews and taught that martyrdom and jihad are \u201cthe most important meanings of life\u201d.<\/p>\r\n A report published in March this year<\/a> contains 25 examples from 10 different UNRWA schools of hateful educational content, including 9th grade study material created by UNRWA that celebrates a Palestinian firebombing attack on a Jewish bus as a \u2018barbecue party\u2019. It also contains 10 new examples of UNRWA teachers and other staff posting support for hate or violence, including conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the world and praising Hitler.<\/p>\r\n O\u2019Connor says funding these schools is incompatible with New Zealand values<\/p>\r\n \u201cKiwis are tolerant, but we should not be funding blatant racism and incitement to violence. It is especially hypocritical for the current government to do so while talking of imposing \u2018hate speech\u2019 laws on New Zealand citizens. This is an issue I have frequently raised in parliament and to date, there has been no satisfactory response as to why New Zealand continues to fund UNWRA while it uses such intolerant literature.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n The petition comes only days after the EU passed a resolution<\/a> that, for the first time, explicitly links the textbooks to ongoing Palestinian terrorism and, especially, to attacks perpetrated by young people. The resolution also acknowledges the existence of antisemitism, and explicitly demands its removal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n