Palestinians in Jaffa, Jerusalem, and across Israel are challenging discriminatory Israeli education policies.

Public discourse about Arabic diglossia has been on the rise as of late, especially as a vindication of colonial praxis when it comes to Palestinian communities in Israel. What this discourse often ignores is the context of Arabic learners, and the need to decolonize Eurocentric frameworks in linguistic research.

Palestinian students are forced to leave the mixed Israeli city of Nof Hagalil to attend school in nearby Nazareth. Why? Because local schools refuse to accommodate Arab students, which reflects the vision of local leaders — a town devoid of an Arab population whatsoever.

Israel’s Education Minister announced a ban this week on human rights groups from entering Israeli public schools, a move seen by many as a response to a bombshell report from B’Tselem calling Israel an “apartheid state”. But it didn’t stop the organization from speaking to 12th grade students at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa this past Sunday. “The Israeli government will have to contend with us until the apartheid regime ends,” B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad tweeted.

At an Israeli Ministry of Education conference, Moshe Zar, a former Jewish terrorist, brags, “I am known for saying ‘Build a house, it’s like you wiped out a hundred Arabs. Build a settlement, it’s like you wiped out tens of thousands of goyim. That’s the truth.” The ministry does damage control, but Zar’s ideology is widely held.

The Israeli Ministry of Education dropped an explicit prohibition on racist answers by students on civic exams. So if they answer, Different population groups should be allowed to live in separate neighborhoods, thereby justifying apartheid, teachers should let it go.

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett made a genius triple breakthrough in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and sociology on Friday, offering a new term for the old idea of Jewish self-hatred: “Auto-anti-Semitism is a social-psychological phenomenon in which a Jew develops obsessive contempt and hostility towards Jewish tradition, customs, and observant Jews,” he wrote.