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Throughout history, the manipulation of information has been a powerful weapon for those seeking to undermine democratic societies. Today, this challenge manifests through sophisticated influence campaigns targeting our educational institutions and impressionable young minds. Foreign actors, including certain state-sponsored programs like the Chinese Confucius Institutes and radical ideological groups across universities worldwide, strategically target impressionable individuals. Their goal is not enlightenment but control – establishing influential networks that ultimately threaten the foundations of free societies.
So, the battle for hearts and minds begins in our classrooms. Qatar, for instance, has channeled billions of dollars into American educational institutions, while simultaneously promoting divisive narratives through its Al Jazeera network. This coordinated approach has concrete consequences: graduates influenced by these narratives enter journalism, education, politics, and other influential fields, carrying perspectives hostile to Western democratic values, American interests, and Jewish communities. Many promote these views without recognizing how they’ve been shaped by well-funded influence operations designed to fracture social cohesion and stability.
The increasingly volatile demonstrations, erupting under the guise of “pro-Palestinian” activism across American and European campuses, reveal the fruits of these efforts. Behind many of these protests stand both local agitators and foreign operatives, funded by entities actively working to weaken democratic societies. Some analysts describe this phenomenon as the “Red-Green alliance” – an opportunistic convergence of radical leftist (“Red”) and extremist Islamist (“Green”) ideologies, united primarily by their opposition to Western liberal democracy and its institutions.
President Trump’s recent diplomatic achievements in the Middle East highlight an alternative path forward. His success in securing business and political agreements demonstrates that diplomacy is a powerful tool which can help bring stability and security, economic and otherwise, to even the most volatile region. However, lasting reconciliation requires more than diplomatic accords – it demands educational reform.
If you want to understand a nation’s true intentions, examine what they teach their children.
Therefore, beyond business deals, we must insist that all participating countries commit to educational systems that actively promote peace and mutual respect among Christians, Jews, Muslims, and all faiths and traditions. School curricula and media content must reflect these values. Without this foundation, more aggressive, better-financed actors supporting extremism – including certain factions within Qatar, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan – will continue to undermine progress toward stability.
A better future requires global decision-makers to prioritize educational initiatives that foster critical thinking, historical accuracy, and mutual understanding. Such education creates not only more tolerant populations but also stronger, more secure countries and communities which value truth, diversity, and cooperation.
The right to accurate information remains our most powerful defense against manipulation. By educating ourselves and our youth to recognize propaganda and seek verified facts, we protect the very freedoms and liberties that define our civilization. This commitment to truth is not merely idealistic – it is essential for our collective security and prosperity.
Dr. Shmuel Katz is a Zionist-American leader, speaker, and philanthropist.
This article originally ran at Jerusalem Post.
Home School your kid before the Hate Mongers get to them
https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-deportation-of-terrorists-family-orders-jews-lit-back-on-fire
education does diddly squat . germany before the nazis took over was highly educated , america was once reasonably educated but continue to murder the unborn to the tune of a million a year . a second holocaust . the jewish nation has a very educated background but is riven with left wing zealots believing they can achieve a 2 state solution even after oct. 7 at the same time feeding the enemy with turmoil while trying to unseat the current govt. you can be an educated genius and still be a fool . what is needed is a biblical spiritual revival . ninevah was spare gods judgement when they repented . the west needs to do the same before gods grace is withheld and judgement ensues .
Beg to disagree: It”s not “radicalism.” that word allows for equivocation of both sides, when clearly there is and never was any to begin with! It’s the ideology of atheistic, nihilistic tyranny and totalitarianism which define the two-headed snake of Islam and Leftism.
BRAINWASHING STARTING NOW WITH SESAME STREET so by the time they get to college, they’re already brainwashed into a CULT!
So too in Muslim countries where the teaching of “kill the Jew Pigs” also starts during the younger years.
This brainwashing today ensures another generation of vile hatred.
BLAME THE SCHOOLS whose teachers are hired only for their radicalism and not their qualifications as a teacher. Most are lazy and but are great at promoting their agenda. Now they don’t even give homework because that would mean they’d have to grade it. (A friend’s son, in the fourth grade, was using a calculator to do his math homework. “My teacher lets us.” HUH? I wrote a math problem. Example: 5439 times 2392. You write the numbers in columns right? NOPE… he was writing them all over so they were so mixed up, he couldn’t do the problem. WHO DIDN’T TELL THEM, ORDER THEM, THAT THE NUMBERS HAD TO BE STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN IN A COLUMN???? THAT ALONE SAYS IT ALL!)
NOW THEY’RE LETTING AI DO THEIR PAPERS? There is so much cheating.
Then you have professors who give assignments that will reveal the political tilt of the student. The ones that align with theirs, they get good grades, advance to higher education, even doctorates based only on their POLITICAL SIDE and not their qualifications. Then they’re hired due to those high grades… and the recommendation of their professors.
Barbarians are ALWAYS at war with Civilization. Always.
Civilization is seriously hard to maintain.
Barbarians can destroy what they never could have created in the first place in a remarkably short timeframe.