After UNRWA

What kind of educational opportunities will be open to graduates of the Hamas-based brainwashing that had turned kids into demonic anti-Jewish automatons? * * *

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23 percent

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Teaching Hate

A Teachers' Guide for Palestinian Arab school children, to be distributed by UNRWA teaches hatred of Israelis and Jews?
Really?
Could that be true??!
Click to see a detailed report: https://israelbehindthenews.com/israel-jews-and-peace-in-palestinian-authority-teachers-guides/19000/

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Palestinian Schoolkid "Hero"

According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

Palestinian Father, Social Media Praise Terrorist Who Murdered Israeli Mother
A mother of six is targeted by a Palestinian terrorist and stabbed to death Sunday. His father's reaction is not one of horror or shame.
"I am proud of him," the father of Murad Bader Abdullah Adais told Palestinian media, reports Israel National News.
Adais fatally stabbed Meir at the entrance of her house in the town of Otniel, south of Hebron, while three of six children were home. Meir's initial struggle with Adais forced him to flee the scene, perhaps saving her children from the attacker. Following an intense manhunt, Israeli authorities arrested Adais Tuesday morning.
A Palestinian news website – QudsN – celebrated the murder by posting an incendiary graphic that features the town's name Otniel in Arabic, with a bloody knife forming the last letter."-more

Palestinian Education

For the full story http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=16869

Academic Loss of Freedom

"Academic freedom" (in America at least) used to mean that unpopular opinions and speakers were essential to education. The goal was to encourage students to learn to think for themselves. These days academic freedom has largely been replaced by doctrinaire-spouting educators. What we now have is a regrettable academic loss of freedom. In today's cartoon, our new character, "the Professor", demonstrates. * * * To fight these poisoners of our students, click on http://igg.me/at/drybones
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College Class

Our new character, "the Progressive Professor", in a college classroom.
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the Progressive Professor

Introducing "the Progressive Professor", a new Dry Bones cartoon character.
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Academic Weakness

According to the Times of Israel:

BDS: Seeking Human Rights or Silencing the Truth?
"The current approach to fight Israel with economic boycotts is not a new phenomenon. Arab League official Mohamad Ali Allouba Pasha made the purpose of these boycotts clear in 1964: “[Israel] is not an easy thing to destroy by military means. But there is a force which is not steel and fire, with the aid of which we can win, namely, the economic boycott." Read more:

Oslo's Failure

The recent UN recognition of Palestine as a state ends the Oslo Accords of 1993. This cartoon is about one of the failures of the now defunct agreement.

School Days

A new generation of college freshmen (including a grandson of mine) is preparing to face the future by equipping themselves with an education. The speed with which the world is changing is astounding.

I believe that these kids would be best prepared for the future by studying the past, a difficult task because history is so rapidly being rewritten.

So do YOU have any advice for this year's freshman class?

Remembering History (1999)

April 15, 1999

Today's Golden Oldie from 1999 makes a prediction about 2012.

So how'd I do? The little girl is now old enough to be in college.

But as to the teaching of history, NATO's destruction of Yugoslavia is forgotten. World War III is in full bloom. It is an Islamofascist war to destroy all other social, religious, or political systems, but in this World War, history itself is under attack.

It's the reason that I've launched the Dry Bones Project to retell and popularize Israel's piece of history ...to protect it from the History Deniers ...to reclaim a history that stretches back 3,500 years before the founding of our modern state in 1948.

Cyber Warfare

Apparently we're getting ready.

Dry Bones China Project

Flash! Announcing a new Dry Bones Project!!

Israel’s enemies try to erase the pre-1948 history of the Jews in the Land of Israel. But China has not yet been infected with this denial of Jewish History.

We propose to inoculate the 1.3 billion Chinese against this modern libel with exciting, popular, online, and free to download apps and eBooks …in a form and with content that will appeal to both the Chinese establishment and Chinese university students alike.

Yup! A unique project to bring China and the Jews closer together through educational, digital, Chinese-language, graphic works written and drawn by award-winning Dry Bones cartoonist, scholar, and political analyst Yaakov Kirschen (me)

For details visit http://drybonesproject.com

Inflammatory Material

Back in October, I was in Boston for a conference at Boston University sponsored by the good folks at CAMERA. As I strolled into the venue at BU with Louise (a friend and fellow activist) we were greeted by a small but noisy and colorful contingent of anti-Israel demonstrators. The chanting, drum-beating, horn-blowing, Arab head scarf-wearing students were trying to hand out their anti-Zionist libels and "fact sheets" to passersby and to would-be conference attendees.

Other folks were furious and stopped to argue with the demonstrators, but not my friend Louise. Nope.

What Louise (Lulu to some) does in such situations is nothing short of brilliant. Amazed at what she did, I turned it into a Dry Bones cartoon (with a thanx to Lulu next to my signature). So if you decide to follow Lulu's (and now my advice) remember to save the inflammatory material for Lag Ba'Omer, the bonfire holiday of the Jewish people. The holiday will start this year on Saturday night May 21 and continue till nightfall Sunday May 22. By the way, on Sunday May 22 I'm scheduled to speak at a Lag Ba'Omer lunch in Fresno California and then I'll be flying off to an appearance that evening in LA. I'll post dates of the May2011 speaking tour as soon as everything is in place. On May 26 I'll be appearing in the Boston area (and hope to get some more strategic advice from Lulu).

We've still got a couple of open dates left for the May2011 tour, so if your Church, Synagogue, or Community Organization wants to book a Z Street, Young Israel-sponsored Dry Bones event do it now. Please contact plerner@youngisrael.org. But this is the last week to book!

Physical Dexterity

When I was a schoolboy in the "old days" in America I, like the kid in panel one of today's cartoon, was forced to learn "penmanship". And what we dutifully practised was called the "Palmer Method".

"In America, the idea of a prescribed form of handwriting was championed by Austin Palmer over a century ago. While working for the Iowa Railroad Land Company in the 1880s, he observed that clerks doing ornamental penmanship "flourished all capitals with a free-arm swing, with the arm completely off the desk." They used an entirely different movement to write normally. "The most swift and tireless penmen appeared to keep the arm on the desk at all times and formed their letters with little or no motion of the fingers — a free and tireless style of penmanship." Palmer realized that his "muscular movement writing" was something that could be taught and that advertising his "system" could help him to change the world — that everyone's handwriting could be efficiently executed while basically looking the same. There need not be confusion in the world because of a messy scrawl! The Palmer Method of Business Writing sold one million copies in 1912. By 1927, the year that Palmer died, 27 million Americans had learned the Palmer Method." -more

* * * I got a fancy new phone today. It's like the one that the kid in the last panel is using ...and I haven't written a "proper" capital Q (see the chart above) in thirty years! I wonder what Miss Batzel (my first grade teacher at P.S. 67 in Brooklyn) would say.

Yale Intimidated

1. Yale University Press announced that they are censoring a book that they are about to publish. And they said that they had been coerced into taking this action because of having been intimidated by fear and threats of violence.

2. The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms defines terrorism as:

"The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."

3. According to that definition, Yale and other American Universities are victims of terrorism. They are being intimidated by the threat of violence. They are being coerced into aiding in the pursuit of the political, religious, and ideological goals of Islamists.

4. When will the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI take action?

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Idea: If Yale is afraid to publish the Danish cartoons (in a scholarly work about the Danish cartoons) why don't they put the cartoons up on a website and print the web address in the book?

If you haven't seen the 12 innocuous Danish cartoons click here.

If you haven't seen my previous posting about Yale, click on "Dry Bones at Yale?".

* * * Your thoughts?

School Strike (1978)

In case you haven't heard, there's a month-old high school strike here in Israel (and again not the grade schools)... and, well, the public doesn't seem to care.

As it was back in 1978, so it is now in 2007. Interesting, I think is the fact that a teen-ager who was a high school student back in the strike of '78 is now in his or her forties! ... and likely to have a kid or two in the high school strike of 2007!