The removal of two articles about the Mideast conflict in a high school newspaper teaches students all the wrong lessons about speech, citizenship, and democracy itself.
After receiving about 250 emails from parents and other community members, school officials ordered the removal of two opinion articles on the Israel-Hamas war from the website of the student newspaper at Lower Merion High School.School District. They received a superb education that prepared them well for all of the next steps. I have always felt grateful to the district for that.student newspaper at Lower Merion High School.
“I really thought it was important to take the articles down for the well-being of everyone, largely because there was so much hurt and fear,” Yanni The real threat to education lay in removing the op-eds, not in publishing them. The Merionite was doing what good journalism has done forever: It presented sharply contrasting views of a controversy, so readers could make up their own minds about it. But nobody can do that now, at least not about the two op-eds. They’re gone.
And the schools — supposedly, our crucibles of democratic citizenship — will cave to them. A few weeks after it censored the op-eds, the Lower Merion School District adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s. According to the IHRA, people who call Israel a “racist endeavor” or use “double standards” to condemn it are antisemitic.
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