A surprising phone call from an inmate at Shikma Prison has intensified the debate over incitement in Israel’s Arab education system after the prisoner, a Bedouin Arab convicted of murdering a family member, told Knesset Education Committee Chairman MK Tzvi Sukkot that anti-Jewish indoctrination in school laid the foundation for both violent crime and nationalist extremism.
According to Sukkot, the inmate reached out to commend the lawmaker for visiting Arab schools and examining what is being taught there in an effort to combat violence and incitement. During the conversation, the prisoner told Sukkot, “You are saving the education in the Arab sector.”
The inmate said he attended a Ministry of Education-recognized school in Kuseife, where he claims students were repeatedly exposed to anti-Jewish messages and encouraged to view violence against Jews favorably. Describing what he experienced, he said, “Crime starts with criminal acts, but the motive starts with nationalism and develops later. Just like during Operation Guardian of the Walls, everyone who participated (in the riots) had a criminal background.”
He went on to describe an educational environment in which Jews were portrayed as enemies who had stolen Arab land. “I grew up in a way where if I would commit a crime against an Arab, I was hated, and if I would do something against a Jew, I would be admired. That’s how I was educated in the Israeli education system in Kuseife.”
The prisoner further argued that organized crime within the Arab sector is driven not only by financial motives but also by ideological ones. “Even the criminal [acts] are nationalist. The reason the criminal organizations do protection rackets is that it all starts with education that the Jew is an infidel.”
He also claimed that his teachers instilled hatred toward Jews from an early age. “The teachers from the north and the territories would teach us to hate the country, that the Jews came to take our land. It all comes from the teacher’s conduct, and it reflects on society. When you don’t recognize the state’s authority and are educated that crime against Jews is acceptable, you grow up to be a criminal like me.”
Near the conclusion of the conversation, the inmate expressed concern that the cycle would continue unless the education system changes, telling Sukkot, “Our DNA is infected. Even if I were released from prison, my children would do the same thing if they were not educated differently.”
Following the conversation, Sukkot said the prisoner’s account highlights what he believes is a critical national security issue. “This testimony must set off a red light for anyone who cares about the State of Israel’s future. We got clear proof that you can not fight crime and terrorism without dealing with the root – the education system. When children are educated on hate, incitement, and delegitimization of Jews and the State of Israel, the results will be violence, crime, and terrorism. Whoever thinks it’s possible to fight crime using only the police and enforcement lives in a misconception and should wake up before it’s too late.”
Sukkot pledged to continue investigating educational materials used in Arab schools and said the committee would press for significant changes. “The Education Committee, led by me, will continue to expose these materials and ensure that the education system educates on coexistence, respect for the law, and allegiance to the state, and not on incitement and violence, and whoever’s not interested won’t get a shekel from the state.”
{Matzav.com}
The Israeli govt doesn’t have the time to examine what’s being taught in Arab schools, they’re too preoccupied enforcing “core subjects” for charedi schools.
If the wicked heretics there would just admit that they are a state of all their citizens, not Jewish, and would leave the Jews alone, then that would solve 99% of their problems.