{"id":83908,"date":"2026-06-24T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83908"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:31:17","slug":"gaza-or-manhattan-fifth-graders-pretend-to-be-shot-over-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/gaza-or-manhattan-fifth-graders-pretend-to-be-shot-over-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Or Manhattan? Fifth Graders Pretend To Be Shot Over Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>PNW<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prophecynewswatch.com\/images\/recent\/class2a.jpg\" alt=\"News Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For decades, the world watched with concern as reports emerged from Palestinian schools, children&#8217;s television programs, and youth organizations that appeared designed not merely to educate children, but to shape them into political activists from an early age.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Investigations by watchdog groups documented textbooks that demonized Jews, television programs that glorified &#8220;martyrdom,&#8221; and school performances where children acted out attacks against Israelis. In some cases, students dressed as militants, paraded mock hostages across stages, and reenacted executions before cheering crowds of fellow students, teachers, and parents.\u00a0Many Americans looked at those stories and thought such things could never happen here.\u00a0After all, this is America.\u00a0 We teach children how to think, not what to think.\u00a0 Or at least we used to.\u00a0A recent incident at Emily Dickinson School on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side should serve as a wake-up call for every parent in America.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PNW: For decades, the world watched with concern as reports emerged from Palestinian schools, children&#8217;s television programs, and youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83909,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83908\/revisions\/83909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}