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One of the first slides, entitled Defining the conflict, asks:

“Religious battle?” and answers “No. A political struggle over competing national aspirations.”

With that curt dismissal, the teacher removes from discussion a major cause of the conflict and reduces it to a “dispute over real estate,”7 as one text source used in the course describes it.

Denial of the religious basis of the conflict is a widely held view among Newton history teachers, although ruling out this dimension of the conflict contradicts historical scholarship. Much of the Muslim world itself speaks clearly on the point, holding the land of Israel as rightfully belonging to Islam and denying Jews a right to sovereignty. Emails obtained through the FOIA request show Newton teachers scoffing at the notion that religion played an important role in the conflict. For example, a history teacher at Newton South High School ridiculed a critic for “fram[ing] this conflict in terms of a holy war.” The teacher added, “but we can’t allow this mistruth to be taught in our classrooms.”

The same teacher praised former Palestine National Council member Edward Said as “an incredible thinker and historian.” In fact, Said was not a historian, although his views have gained significant following among anti-Western and anti-Israel academics.

The teacher’s comments reflect an overestimation of his knowledge and unfamiliarity with such distinguished Middle East historians as Nadav Safran, Bernard Lewis, Efraim Karsh, Barry Rubin and Fouad Ajami, who shed light on religion’s role in the conflict.

But more importantly, this denial of religion’s role reflects unfamiliarity with what the Arabs, themselves, say about the conflict. For over a century, religious dogma, especially the call to participate in a Muslim war (jihad), has been used to instigate violence against Jews and justify acts of terrorism, including suicide bombings.

By excluding the important role of religion as a recruiting tool for a jihad against the Jewish state, the course material prevents students from understanding current events and issues in the Middle East.

Excluded from the course materials are:

Calls for jihad in defense of Muslim holy sites. Students should know that the bogus charge that Israel seeks to take over Al Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount ignited violence in the 1920s, the Second Intifada in 2000 and continues to spark violence to this day.8

Institutionalized anti-Semitic rhetoric — vilification of Jews as inherently evil. Students should view the frequent hate-filled exhortations by Palestinian officials and imams available on-line from MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch and found in Palestinian schoolbooks and children’s television.9

References to charges that Jews are trying to “Judaize” areas that “belong” to the Islamic Trust. The religious notion of an Islamic Trust underpins Palestinian rejection of Jewish sovereignty on any part of the land.

Attempts to politically erase Jewish connection to its religious sites in Israel through resolutions in UNESCO.10 Also Palestinian and Muslim leaders try to prevent freedom of worship at joint holy sites, for example, the Tomb of Joseph, Rachel’s Tomb, Tomb of the Patriarchs.11

Attempts by the Waqf (religious leadership of the Muslim shrines atop the Temple Mount) to erase non-Muslim artifacts from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

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