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As director-general of the Mossad under three prime ministers, he helped orchestrate a treaty between Israel and Jordan. But he also showed an iron hand.
Israel acts against school for apartheid discussion by B Tselem
Palestinian students attend activities during a summer camp, organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at Zaitoun School in Gaza City, Gaza on 18 July, 2017 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency] January 29, 2021 at 3:13 pm
The row over Israeli apartheid took another authoritarian turn yesterday after the country s Education Ministry summoned the principal and managing director of Hebrew Reali School in Haifa to a hearing after they ignored a ministry order and went ahead with an online lecture by the director of B Tselem, arguably Israel s most respected human rights organisation.
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Jan. 29, 2021
The hearing the Education Ministry held on Thursday for the principals of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, after they had invited B’Tselem’s director to talk to students, was intended more than anything else to deter other principals and teachers.
The message is loud and clear: principals and teachers must shut up, avoid any discussion of the reality they and their pupils live in. There must be no fact-based discussion, not even thinking about it. Like silencing lawsuits meant to reduce the freedom of speech, the silencing hearing is to ensure teachers reduce themselves to the channels approved by the ruler.