The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Knesset’s adoption of new racist laws in preliminary reading aimed at the Israelization of education in Arab schools, warning that these laws attempt to impose the Israeli narrative on the awareness of Palestinian generations through intensifying restrictive measures against teachers and students and by blackmailing Arab schools that do not adopt the Israeli curricula by not including them in the education budget. It said in a statement that it looks very seriously at the results of these racist laws and their repercussions that would legitimize the persecution and pursuit of the Palestinian nationalist figures, attempt to control and dominate the consciousness of generations and push them to accept the occupation’s procedures and measures. The Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem will also be targeted in these laws in flagrant violation of international law and the signed agreements, especially as they come after what has become to be known as the law to fight the Palestinian flag by banning raising it in educational institutions and universities. The Foreign Ministry called on the specialized international organizations concerned with human rights and others, particularly UNESCO, to speak out against these laws and urgently intervene to stop the completion of their legislation because they are a flagrant aggression on the right of people to preserve their identity, heritage, culture and cause in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially with regard to their freedom to express their opinions and ideas by peaceful means and through education.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA