BDS Hoping To Gain Control Of Parent Committee At Preschool

“We need to begin our indoctrination much earlier than college.”

Tel Aviv, May 24 – Activists working to promote academic, commercial, and political boycotts of Israel are aiming to place their allies on the committee that represents parents at a North Tel Aviv nursery school, PreOccupied Territory has learned.

Representatives of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions( BDS) movement against Israel seek to repeat some the success they have had in select American academic institutions, by means of gaining control of university-affiliated organizations and using those forums as platforms to call for divestment and boycotts of Israel. Having enjoyed only mixed success in US academic establishments, the movement has shifted its focus to educational institutions below the undergraduate level, including preschool in Israel itself.

A BDS representative outlined the strategy. “Nearly two decades of campus activism provide lessons for our way forward,” began Bray Nouash, who devised the preschool and elementary school initiatives. “The success we have enjoyed to date depends on a dedicated but small cadre of activists willing to do almost anything to demonize Israel. That carries advantages in terms of enthusiasm and consistency, but the limited numbers of such dedicated people has been a limiting factor – especially where supporters of Zionism” – he spat as he hissed the word – “mobilize to defeat our initiatives. Most of the people at the various institutions care little about Palestine, and we can’t count on that ‘silent majority’ to support us.”

“So we need to begin our indoctrination much earlier than college,” he continued. “That means placing our activists or allies on the relevant bodies that govern these institutions: parent committees and the like. Soon, an entire generation of enlightened, progressive schoolchildren will emerge, one that stands boldly shoulder-to-shoulder with oppressed people everywhere! Well, everywhere after the last cubic centimeter of Palestine is liberated from the vile clutches of the Zionist occupiers. The people of Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara, Eastern Ukraine, Tibet, Darfur, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela, Crimea, and elsewhere will simply have to wait. You have to start somewhere, and the somewhere we always pick is Palestine. Deciding to start elsewhere must mean you’re Islamophobic or something.”

Selecting the institutions on the boards of which to place BDS advocates will take some time, predicts Nouash. “Some of them have these arcane procedures and stipulations that I would wager are designed to keep human rights activists from joining,” he observed. “Look at this: seven different preschools in the North Tel Aviv are alone that require members of the parents committee to have at least one child enrolled in the institution. If that’s not blatant suppression of free speech, I don’t know what is.”

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