Billionaire Zionist John Gandel’s influence in Australian public schools

Australian public school teachers and students are being influenced by Zionist lobbyists who are trying to get consent to the illegal occupation of Palestine and the Gaza genocide. Nicole Everett And Alan Musry with story.

Yad Vashem Holocaust Studies Teacher Training Program For Australian EducatorsIt is a tool used to brainwash educators and students under the guise of Holocaust Studies, which is clearly a state vision supported by the Gandel Foundation.

This situation represents a view contrary to what the majority of academics and experts know and teach, and undermines the spirit of balanced and independent work.

The Gandel Foundation, which offers a teacher training program, is chaired by Australian billionaire John Gandel and organizes trips to Israel.

John Gandel is a long-time colleague of Benjamin Netanyahu and is listed as one of his “most valued supporters.” A leaked document reveals that he ‘1. announced that he was the ‘level’ contact person The Israeli Prime Minister who is currently overseeing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the violent occupation of Palestinians in the West Bank.

After October 7, John Gandel said openly: “Israel has no choice but to go ‘all in’ on Gaza.

Gandel is well integrated into the Zionist colonial project and has relationships with the Israel Defense Forces through a program that treats and rehabilitates IDF soldiers carrying out genocide in Gaza.

In 2022, Hadassah Hospital Gandel Rehabilitation Center in Jerusalem was funded by John Gandel and his wife Pauline; this was reportedly the largest donation ever made to Israel.

Medicine. Australian health services have close ties to Israel despite Gaza

Zionist perspective

Addressing the audience at the special lunch held after the naming ceremony of Hadassah Rehabilitation Center, Gandel said:

“When it comes to supporting the people and State of Israel, we have always considered it our duty and obligation to strengthen the homeland and assist this country” and “It is worth noting that the Australian Jewish community is a strong supporter, supporter and defender of the State of Israel. Israel has one of the best allies in the world in Australia.”

This statement clearly outlines full support for the Zionist state, and the teacher training program supported by John Gandel’s foundation aims to influence Australian teachers to accept and teach the Zionist perspective in Australian schools.

This leads young people in our schools and wider education system to defend Israel and the Zionist colonial project in occupied territories such as Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice on July 19, 2024. In the resolution, UN experts, including Francesca Albanese and others, in question,

States should immediately review all diplomatic, political and economic ties with Israel,

“Including business and finance, pension funds, academia and charities.”

Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Rehabilitation Center has been specially treating and rehabilitating IDF soldiers injured or ‘stressed’ while participating in the killing, maiming, abduction and dispossession of Palestinians, including a ‘dedicated PTSD centre’.

teacher training program

Yad Vashem Holocaust Studies Teacher Training Program It represents an external lobby group for Australian Educators that influences educators and enables a foreign interest group to interfere with the public education system. It does this like this:

• Providing free travel trips.
• Politicizing history by refocusing Holocaust studies on the contemporary politics of the Middle East.
• To provide professional learning, teaching materials, lecture series, and historical resources that support the Zionist interpretation of history.
• To influence politically uninformed teachers who were unaware of the Palestinian Nakba that occurred in 1948.

The program is described by Yad Vashem as “a long-term professional development program aimed at training a cadre of expert Holocaust educators operating throughout Australia.” It involves teachers in a long-term commitment that consists of five phases:

• Stage 1: Online Course: Introduction to Holocaust Studies
• Stage 2: Australian Teacher Education Seminar, Jerusalem
• Stage 3: Educational Project
• Phase 4: Follow-up Seminars in Australia
• Stage 5: Gandel Program Graduates
  

… To ensure that participants remain committed to the ongoing advocacy and care of the state of Israel.

The Gandel Foundation also partially funds Australia’s Birthright programIt is run by the Zionist Federation of Australia and provides young people with free trips to Israel.

Zionist exceptionalism

There are several reasons why we should not place special emphasis on teaching only the Jewish Holocaust in schools:

• portraying genocide as a unique or isolated event;
• unintentionally belittle the victims of other genocides;
• limiting students’ understanding of the conditions that led to genocide;
• reinforce narrow perspectives on racism and violence;
• weakening education on how to prevent genocide;
• We prefer a historical narrative in which we ignore the wrongs committed by the ‘West’.

Australian Teachers value, support and teach Holocaust education programmes; However, these statements should not be made when they aim to legitimize contemporary political violence in the Middle East by exposing teachers to Zionist voices.

Genocide studies should include, but are not limited to, studies conducted in places such as North America, Australia, Rwanda, Cambodia, the Rohingya in Myanmar, and Darfur.

Additionally, the curriculum should include teaching the perspectives of Palestinians who have lived under occupation for more than 75 years. The Israel lobby can continue to exclude this point of view.

deprives students of comprehensive learning aimed at developing critical thinking skills.

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