High school educator accused of breaching 'neutrality' by commemorating victims of Israel's war

A high school science teacher in France has been suspended since late March for holding a minute’s silence for the victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Le Parisien reported on Thursday, citing education authorities, that the physics and chemistry teacher at Janot Curie high school in Sens, Yonne, was suspended on 31 March. Five days earlier, a minute’s silence was held just at the end of her class to pay tribute to the victims of the war, just as Israeli forces unilaterally broke a ceasefire in Gaza and killed more than 700 Palestinians.

The decision marks the latest episode of French authorities taking punitive action over protests and remarks related to Israel’s war on Gaza. Jean-Paul Delescaut, leader of the General Confederation of Labour union, was handed a suspended one-year jail sentence for writing in response to the 7 October Hamas attacks: “The horrors of illegal occupations… are receiving the responses they provoked.”

    • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
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      I’m totally not ok with genocide. Not sure how you came to this conclusion. Take the holocaust: It make sense that pupils learn about it. But it does also make sense that they learn about it in the appropriate setting. In history or politics class, with a teacher who studied the subject and who has the time to do so. You really don’t want to tell students about the Holocaust in 5 minutes in gym class and that is exactly what happened here. Crazy that people think that it is “rolling with genocide” when a teacher is acting like that