The management of Makif V High School in Be'er Sheva announced today (Sunday) the desire to hold a meeting next month at the school between students for the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum - the parents at the school are outraged by the decision along with other public figures and right-wing organizations.
"My child studies there. I'm sure he won't come that day," wrote one of the parents, and this is the most humble reaction that can be seen after the families learned about the event.
And already some of them are sure that the event will not take place, "it will not happen here. The public in the south will not allow this sick corruption to take place".
said a parent at the school, Or Yacovi.
Tension in Be'er Sheva.
The protest at Ben Gurion University in the city between the Arab and Israeli students, photo: Dodo Greenspan
The Ministry of Education responded and claimed that "the Bereaved Families Forum has been operating in the education system for 20 years, since 2002, together with a wide range of bodies that represent the spectrum of Israeli society. The GPF system has a database of programs on which the Ministry conducts a process of control and feedback.
Programs that have negative feedback or complaints will be reviewed and removed accordingly."
Shai Glick, CEO of Betselmo, who received many inquiries from angry parents and teachers, said: "Be'er Sheva is a Zionist and nationalistic city.
Under no circumstances will those who support the narrative of terrorists be allowed to enter schools.
We demand that the principals of the school and the mayor immediately cancel this conference.
It is possible to bring the families of those murdered from the last attack a few months ago in Be'er Sheva.
The residents of Be'er Sheva will not agree that an organization that embraces the families of terrorists will poison the souls of their children."
Almog Cohen, who is currently running in the 25th Knesset elections on behalf of Otzma Yehudit, referred to and quoted a text heard at the joint Memorial Day ceremony of the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum in order to illustrate his opposition to the event.
"I see no difference between the pilot who drops a bomb in Gaza and the terrorist who killed my daughter.
My daughter was murdered because we are occupying.
The suicide bomber who murdered my daughter was decent enough to kill himself, but a police officer who accidentally killed the Palestinian girl spent that evening at a discotheque and was not prosecuted. He is a murderer."
Alternative memorial ceremony (archive),
Demonstrators outside the alternative memorial ceremony, photo: Coco
"Wouldn't happen on my shift. Certainly not in the Negev."
Cohen, photo: Yossi Zeliger
Cohen attacked: "Does the administration of Comprehensive High School V in Be'er Sheva think that values such as deterrence, determination and the elimination of the enemy will be present in the military police of its students when they allow themselves to admit organizations that utter such jarring texts?
The reality in which organizations that accept the Palestinian narrative, undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel and discredit the IDF soldiers will infiltrate Israeli students - not a ceiling on my watch. Certainly not in the Negev."
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