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Fifth Column
Texas High School Principal Responds To Backlash Over Yearbook's Times Of Palestine Page
2024-05-11
[NYPost] A high school which published a yearbook with a page dismissing the October 7 terror attack on Israel says it will print a new version without the page.
A full return and replace? Expensive, but it’s the right thing to do.
In the email to parents of students at Bellaire High School, principal Michael Niggli said he was “surprised by the content” — which dismissed the attack which claimed the lives of 1,200 and resulted in over 240 hostages being taken — as “what happened, happened.”

Of those hostages, 128 remain in captivity, according to Israel.

Niggli also said the school will be “enforcing new editorial protocols,” to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again in the email, sent Sunday.
The usual thing is to replace the advisor and fire the student editor…
“Although the yearbook staff and their sponsorship are charged with editing the content of the publication as they have been for many years, as principal of Bellaire High School I will need to make some adjustments to that process.

“We will be enforcing new editorial protocols for all student publications in the coming weeks as we prepare for 2024-25,” Niggli wrote to parents.

The school featured the page as an Arab student’s “account of the Israel-Gaza conflict” in the original printed version of the yearbook.
No problem there, so long as an Israeli student’s account is included
“Would Palestine have ended up differently if October 7 didn’t happen? Everybody would want to change the past, but what happened happened,” the unidentified student was quoted saying in the page.

“Many movements started right after then that were pro-Palestine after that attack, which motivated me and my friends to also take a stand. We had to show the world that we wouldn’t stop fighting for our freedom.”
How many of them have the genocidal “From the river to the sea…” as their motto?
Palestine is not recognized as a self-governing state by the US or many other major world powers.

A photo of the original yearbook page was shared by concerned Bellaire High School parent Yafit Bar,
…sounds like an Israeli name — bet her child has a perspective on events over there, too…
who told The Post that the issue is “personal for her” because her brother Leon Bar was ambushed and killed in Israel in the wake of Hamas’ October terrorist attack.
…or an interview, if the kid didn’t feel up to writing something him or herself.
Leon was voluntarily shuttling injured civilians in his car to the hospital in southern Israel on October 8 when killed by a Hamas terrorist.

In a later statement, the school said it will “provide a revised yearbook to any student who would like them.”

So not a full recall and replace. Instead they will create Jewish ghetto for their high school yearbook. Fascinating.
In a later statement, Principal Niggli said: “The Bellaire High School community is one of the most diverse schools in Houston Independent School District. That diversity is one of our greatest attributes – it makes us stronger.

“The Carillon, our nationally acclaimed yearbook, is a source of pride for everyone at Bellaire High School, and when it was released last Thursday, many in our community were disappointed to see that it included content that reflected only one perspective of a very complex issue.

“I’m disappointed that one of our most celebrated traditions might divide our community instead of bringing it together. But more than anything, I deeply regret that this created a circumstance where some of our students didn’t feel safe and supported in our school. We will work to prevent this from happening again.”
But whatever work they do will not include getting rid of the Jew-hating entry in the yearbook.
During the Oct. 7 attack, brutal Hamas terrorists committed acts of sexual violence, including gang rape against civilians, United Nations experts have concluded.

In response to an Niggli’s email, an Instagram page entitled “protest.bellaire.now2024” also posted Sunday urging students to walk out of class May 10 to show their opposition to the principal’s response, saying his action “undermines” student “voices … and hinders free speech.”
Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

#12  Looks like a suburb of Houston. I don’t know the area. Politics is local. They may walk or they may be held accountable.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-05-11 17:03  

#11  The adults allowed this, and should lose their jobs over this. We all know they won't.
Posted by: Crusader   2024-05-11 16:52  

#10  'Layers of editorial oversight'
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-05-11 10:25  

#9  #6 Since Hillary is incapable of ethical judgement, why does she?
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-11 10:20  

#8  Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Gaza branch, Huputle+Cherelet4131.

Wikipedia:

Hamas,[d] an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, lit. 'Islamic Resistance Movement'),[52] is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist[53] political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.[54]

Hamas was founded by Palestinian imam and activist Ahmed Yassin in 1987, after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation. It emerged from his 1973 Mujama al-Islamiya Islamic charity affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.[55]
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-11 09:47  

#7  Hassan al-Banna is not the founder of Hamas, which was an indigenous organization founded in "Palestine" in 1988.
Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131   2024-05-11 07:39  

#6  testimony of the abominations

Hillary Clinton is attacking young people over views on Israel-Gaza because she's bitter
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-11 07:24  

#5  Should send out a supplement with uncensored pictures and testimony of the abominations of Oct. 7.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-11 07:15  

#4  Anti-Israel protests sweep US college campuses around the nation
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-11 07:06  

#3  So they don't just control congress and colleges.
Their influence extends farther down the learning tree to high schools.


Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-11 06:27  

#2  

Simply put.
High School Year Books are supervised and approved for publication by the School's assigned faculty.

Nothing goes into an HS Year Book without the High School Yearbook Staff supervisor's review and approval.


Who was the Bellaire High School Yearbook Staff supervisor
 then searched on "Yearbook" in "Title"

Andrea Negri
Yearbook Advisor & CTE Teacher
Andrea.Negri@houstonisd.org
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-05-11 06:22  

#1  An official yearbook published by a public school is a public forum to which there should be content neutral access.

I think robust counter speech which is still protected in the US would have been a better approach than censorship.

It is better to know what the consensus opinion within certain groups is than to accept mendacious bromides like "Islam is peace."

"We had to show the world that we wouldn’t stop fighting for our freedom.”

They fight for their freedom to kill the Jews and to enslave the non-Muslims on Earth.
"It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet."
Hassan al-Banna, Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood / Hamas
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2024-05-11 00:32  

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