As expected, the Labour government has accepted 27 recommendations of a report into #antisemitism in British schools. The report suggests that antisemitism is a major problem, but its solutions are not exactly credible. They focus on killing solidarity with Palestinians, and re-educating children to make them pro-Israel. A key argument for this moral panic is that three out of five Jewish pupils have experienced antisemitism in schools. However, that figure comes from a survey of 5,000 kids, only 92 of who were Jewish. That’s right, the sample size was just 92!
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Those 92 kids were asked if they’d personally experienced antisemitism at school and only 70 responded. Twenty-nine said yes—that’s less than one in three of those asked! Only 12% of the kids who responded said they felt antisemitism was a problem at their school and only 2% said it was a big problem. You can count the number of kids who felt antisemitism was a problem at their school with your fingers. Yet the government decided that means antisemitism must be put into its own special category of racism and treated more seriously than the others. You might wonder how the report could get it so badly wrong. Well, let’s take a look at the author, Sir David Bell. He sits on the council of the Academic Group for the Study of Israel and the Middle East—a charity whose main focus is to oppose #BDS. This post does not criticise antisemitism my intention is to highlight how that has been used to service the nefarious, secular demands of Israel. We see you We know what you are doing powerbase.info/index.php/Acade…
