VIGLIACCHI!
No group knows better than educators the ramifications and consequences of bullying. Ridicule, name-calling, isolation, mental and physical assault, the denial of personhood, insidious or overt suicidal encouragement incrementally permeate the targets—day after day, week after week, eating away at the victims. Personality becomes troubled, fragile; perspective darkens, fear, anxiety, depression, build up like social toxin, poisoning victims until self-inflicted wounds cry out for help, or cut so deep and numerous the lack of breath, of feeling, of thought, of appetite, of life seem as relief to the torment of survival in a world so hostile to their existence.
Through millennia no minority has been persecuted, slaughtered, and isolated—bullied drom governments to mobsto other religions—as much as the Jews, whose estimated population in the contemporary world numbers around 15 million, a fragment of what their slice of the demographic pie would be had they not been so miserably treated through history. It is worse today than it has been in a century, due to most of the Muslim Arab world, to which the Palestinians belong, declared their own 21st century version of The Final Solution to the Jewish Question, called the Global Intifada. When Israel offered the Palestinian Arabs the country they claim they so desperately want, it was rejected by Yasser Arafat, who began the First Intifada, a declaration of war against the Jews and Israelis that left 1,000 Israeli dead and many more injured. A second intifada, oddly after another offer of peace and land for a nation, was declared and the results were the same. Israel built a wall to protect its people from mass murder and the world screamed at Israel. During the Qatar World Cup, an Egyptian American news commentator on then MSNBC, Ayman Moohyeldin, encouraged the harassment of Israelis (Jews?) visitors. Whether verbal assault or murder, and all in between, if the victims are Jews the never-go-to-jail card frees the bullies from incarceration faster than Trump can pardon Jan 6 insurrectionists. Just to be clear, prior to these offers a state was rejected multiple teams. Apparently. the price for an independent Palestinian state was too high: to stop killing Jews, a time-honored tradition going back long before the rebirth of the Jewish homeland as a nation for the Hebrews and to live in peace with a Jewish-majority nation. What would they do if they couldn’t kill the Jew. Maybe the REC’s early childhood education specialists, apologists, and local anti-Jewish/Israel activists need to go back to school. If facts mattered at all.
Reggio Emiliana’s pusillanimous response to Palestinian activists betrays their own educational principles and professional responsibilities. Their egregious decision telling Jews to sign a statement renouncing Israel for occupation and violation pf children’s rights to attend the conference speaks volumes about this group’s ignorance of the conflict. Israel left Gaza 20 years ago—not one Jew lives in Gaza. Not one Jewish grave remains. Palestinian children are trained to be soldiers and suicide bombers, receive an education based on Jewhatred and martyrdom, and many girls are forced into underage marriages in the culture, and a brainwashing so severe countries , however grudgingly, are trying to reign in the bigotry threatening and voting to withhold funds for the thoroughly corrupted UNWRA unless they reform the curriculum. .
It is a a total disrespect, even contempt toward Jewish teachers and their spiritual tiesd and Judaic heritage to Israel, a hypocritical stand given the school’s encouragement and openness to differing viewpoints. Renouncing Judaism and isolating Jews has been historical instruments used against the Jewish people to convert or die for centuries.
The Islamonazi contingent and their intimidated Regio Emilia hosts failed in their joint effort to bully the Jewish and Israeli conference attendees—All 68 cancelled the trip, a metaphorical act telling the sponsors what they can do with the conference. Instead of strength, collaboration, respect, integrity, strength, integrity, collegial collaboration way for prejudice and an easy way out the host sponsors placated activists whose actions against Jewish participants included combing files and media for signs of support for the world’s only Jewish state.
TGBL recommends the following ctions be taken by the Jewiash and Isaraeli targets of this bigotry, shameful conduct:
1. The Paradigm Project should begin phasing out as soon as possible The Reggio Emiliana Approach to Early Childhood Development. replace it with one they themselves created and launch for the school year 2027-2028. . The Reggio Children ‘s integrity has been severely corrupted and can no longer serve the needs of Jewish children. I have full confidence the educators of the can create their own pedagogy to teaching young children, rather than use one that will remind them everyday how they were smacked in the face by the Israelophobic priesthood.
2. The Reggio Children officials responsible for creating, approving, and implementing the humiliating anti-Jewish pledge must face consequences. The mayor’s pathetic, condescending apology was more redolent of a crook caught in a scheme gone wrong. Mayor Massaro’s pledge to make signing the general document, called a charter For a Democratic and Participatory Education, a staple of future conferences, is purple prose and adolescent politics. Curiously, the Palist Arabs break nearly every commitment asked for in the charter, but nary a word about reigning in islamonaziism. But Israel, under attack for a century, and jews for millennia, better have ink in theory pens to renounce their spiritual home and heartland. China, Iran, Russia have been there, yet no news of separate singling out of their nationals wfo conferences they attended. Maddelina Tedeschi, president of the sponsoring group, should resign immediately. As president, she bent the knee to the worst violators of th charters many items. Rather than have them sign a pledge, she ADOAsHADOWnyc2027!took up their sword. Live by the [pen, re-sign by the pen. Unfit for command. Depending on the extent of their contribution, lesser conaspirators should also face fiones, suspensions, or dismissal.
3. All legal action, both civil and criminal, against Reggio Emilia children center, any govt officials, or civilian actors must be considered both here in the us and Italy. Lawsuits involving foreign entities, especially with regard to terrorism, have been on the docket a number of times. There have been dozens of civil rights breaches, disc rimination, and privacy breaches. People’s fil;es and social mnedia had been scrutinized for the purpose of extorting Jews to denounce Israel. Even if the lawsuits fail;, the ignominy sheds li9ght on the hypocrisy and bigotry of the self-proclaimed champions of childhood development and social tolerance. They humbly left out professional hypocrites.
The charter they now and for the future require participants’ signatures is antithetical to everything IslamoNaziism stands for. In fact, the whole documewnt reads as a manifesto against the violent, war-driven jihad culture. But no scandal has emerged in which Muslims from despotic theocracies, monarchies, orother anti-democratic nations were asked to renounce beliefs and practices of REC as enunciated in the Charter. Yet, instead odf confromting the worst violators of their principles, the citry and administration appeased the very people who would their charter for toilet paper. A teachable moment misswed, but a Jewhating Israwelophic one? Grasbbed with gusto. As Andrea Bocellio sang, Con te partiro –Tineto Say Goodbye.
goal is the elimination of the Jewish homeland and spiritual center of Judaism. I could easily draw up a statement that Muslims would have to sign to attend an educational conference. There are many items to be listed for their signature to renounce, Persha Kletnick head of Manhattan Day school in is antithetical to the binding principles
How are we to navigate rejection by the very experts we collectively idealized—the gatekeepers of the sensitive world views and teachings we trusted to nurture our most tender children? of the Palistinian Arab and Islamonazi cuilture.