A recent imbroglio in Manhattan Beach underscores the fraught nature of discussing the Israel-Hamas war — even for children.
Such a saga has played out in Manhattan Beach over the last two weeks, with a dispute among middle schoolers roiling the community. The details are murky. Hearsay outweighs facts. The Jewish community and those who support Israel’s response to Hamas’ recent attacks have been pitted against those advocating for the rights of Palestinians in Gaza.
This has become a problem globally since the war broke out. Some claims that are objectively and clearly false are still going viral and being seen millions of times by users of X, formerly Twitter, in part because of changes made to the platform by CEO Elon Musk, according to a recent report by NewsGuard, an information analysis company.
Shabaik, who has spoken to the girl, said that all the children involved were simply trying to make sense of the complex, nuanced situation happening in the Middle East. The intent of the contract, MBUSD officials said, is to ensure matters don’t escalate and students refrain from spreading rumors. In less than a week, the rabbi’s message was widely spread through emails and social media. The second-hand quotes attributed to the Arab American girl and the “gag order” claims against the school district were repeated over and over, and picked up by FOX-11 news and NBC news.The 11-year-old Arab American girl and her family have since received death threats — and been called terrorists — in an anonymous letter, Shabaik said.
Her intent was to have a discussion, Shabaik said, and educate other students about the complex and nuanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “While the ‘No Contact Contract’ is a standard form, we understand that our times are not standard,” Bowes wrote, “and this requires us not to rely on our standard practices.”
“Tell them our hearts are with them,” Kalev said in a Wednesday interview. “We don’t wish them any harm in any way.” “We want to teach children compassion, even regarding that person who may be committing this horrible act of violence because that’s ultimately how the cycle ends,” Dr. Shimi Kang, a Vancouver, Canada, psychiatrist and associate clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, told“The more we dehumanize each other and villainize each other, the less we’re going to see an answer to the cycle.
One speaker during a recent Peninsula school board meeting called for Deen’s resignation, characterizing her call for inclusivity as “virtue signaling,” and saying she was inciting violence against the Jewish community. Deen has worked as facilitator for New Ground Muslim Jewish Partnership for Change, a community-building organization that hosts a program where 10 Jewish high schoolers and 10 Muslim high schoolers spend an academic year dialoguing and workshopping.
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