{"id":12523,"date":"2010-01-07T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2010-01-07T15:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:04:53","slug":"gideon-levy-teacher-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12523","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Levy: Teacher of a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz<\/em>, 7 January 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a pedagogic poem in Tel Aviv; through the curtain of indifference and darkness, a ray of light. In an educational system that provides only grades and sterile surroundings, the encouragement of thinking is prohibited. It’s a place where teachers are mute and educators blind in the stupefying brainwash of propaganda, evasion and ignorance in the curricula. But a courageous voice has been heard: The principal of Aleph High School of the Arts, Ram Cohen, called his 11th-graders to a meeting last week and gave them a real civics lesson, a real education in values. Instead of the usual blah-blah, cheap Zionism and cheaper democracy, cliches within hollow and specious cliches, Cohen spoke the truth to his students.<\/p>\n

Cohen told his students about the occupation. He told them that you can’t brutally crush values the way Israel has been doing for 42 years and say we are educating for democracy. He asked them whether they would be willing to live under an occupation. He told them he does not justify terror but understands what leads to attacks. He called on educators to tell students that the occupation is cursed and called on students to serve in an army that protects security, not an army busy with the occupation. <\/p>\n

“Talk to each other, talk to your parents, go out and demonstrate,” he told them, doing what any educator should do. But in the Israel of 2010, nationalist and militarist, Cohen’s remarks raised a storm. MKs called for his dismissal, he was summoned for “clarifications” in the Education Ministry and the Tel Aviv municipality. He was not allowed to give interviews, which is outrageous in and of itself. <\/p>\n

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