Israeli parliament passes law to sack Arab teachers who ‘support attacks against Israelis’
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has passed a law allowing the sacking of Arab teachers who “show support for attacks against Israelis.”
The bill was approved in the second and third reading by 55-45 votes in the parliament dominated by Zionist hardliners.
The law authorizes the Education Ministry to fire teachers without prior notice and cut funding for schools that show support for attacks against Israeli citizens and targets.
The bill specifically mentions Arab schools in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, which according to Israel’s allegations, “incite minors against the state of Israel.”
Critics of the law argue that it grants disproportionate power to the Education Ministry, enabling it to act in ways that could harm freedom of speech and potentially target Arab schools without judicial oversight
The bill came one day after Israel withdrew from a 1967 agreement that recognizes the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Tension has escalated across the occupied Palestinian territories over Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 43,400 people, mostly women and children, since last year. The ravaged occupied territory has had its civil infrastructure completely destroyed as humanitarian aid erratically trickles in amidst obstacles erected by Israel.
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