By Daphne Anson
In the USA this kiddies’ book seems to be a popular stocking filler.
And in France, kiddies are being told in the current edition of the monthly Youpi magazine, aimed at five-to-eight year-olds, that:
“There are 197 countries, like France, Algeria or Germany. There are a few more, but not all other countries in the world agree that they are real countries (for example the State of Israel or North Korea).”
As reported here:
‘Francis Kalifat, the president-elect of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), the umbrella organization for Jewish organisations in France, condemned the magazine for questioning Israel’s existence. “To say that Israel is not a ‘true state’ is a grave lie in the face of history … Israel’s existence is an internationally recognized truth.”
“Israel has been recognized as a sovereign state since 1948 and by the United Nations since 1949,” he said. In an interview with i24 News, he accused the magazine of “targeting its youngest readers” in its delegitimization of the State of Israel.
Kalifat said that he had written to publisher Bayer calling on the magazine to “produce an article in the next issue to explain what Israel is, so as to accurately inform” its young readers that Israel exists.
Serge Dehan, the president of B’nei B’rith France, also condemned the magazine for “banishing Israel from the nations” of the world. He accused the magazine of “conditioning children to hate Israel.”‘
Bigger kids, meanwhile, are being fed the constant fiction in which the BBC and its cohorts specialise. Stuff like this and this.
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