#i dont like our government either but there is a difference between bation wide things and district wide things

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Ok hello! I looked at this on the official site of the Bezirk Neukölln and read the article above and wanted to add some more context, because

1. It appears to have been the CDU who made the request, the SPD asked for an amendment to cut the phrase "and to guide any democratic debate on this issue" out. Die Linke then asked the district administration to do everything in their power to prevent the distribution of the leaflet.

2. It wasnt an order as the article says. I dont think they can just do that? Order the schools i mean

3. As already noted they didnt order the high schools to do this, they requested that district make sure they high schools did it. This may be semantics but i do think the difference is important.

4. The district administration has already stated that they dont intend to influence the lesson content like that (they don't want the leaflet distributed), and also that doing so would be illegal.

5. They do on the other hand, think it is their job to educate on the topic and they note all the ways in which masyiot e.V. is incredibly one sided and also propaganda for Israel.

Someone already added this in the notes but here the source again from the official site of the neuköln district

It!s kinda bad to read on mobile and also in german.

Also english is not my first language so I apoligize for any mistakes

Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin's borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948. [...] Neukolln is one of Berlin's most diverse and international boroughs with a large Palestinian community. [...] The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors. In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement. Under 'Myth #2: Israel was established on stolen Palestinian land', Masiyot states that the acquisition of land by Jewish immigrants to Palestine took the form of a legal exchange of capital for an official title deed. At no point in history was land illegally conquered by Jewish immigrants, the author of the text, Michael Spaney, claims. Even land conquered following the wars of 1948 and 1967 and the subsequent construction of settlements, which are internationally recognised as a violation of international law, did not occur unlawfully, it says. "Anyone who uses the accusation of land theft as an argument demonises Israel and denies its legitimacy, i.e. acts out of antisemitic motives," Spaney wrote. "Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided". In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual". He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

. . . full article on MME (23 Feb 2024)