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February 13, 2012

Independent: Lesson in extremism at Israel 'peace' school

by Donald Macintyre
The Independent

A school set up to promote peace and understanding between Arab and Jewish communities in Jerusalem has been hit by vandals who have daubed racist threats on its playground walls, including "Death to Arabs".

Teachers and pupils at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School, the city's only Jewish-Arab school, also found sprayed on its walls, "Shoah [Holocaust] for the Arabs" and "Kahane was right" – a reference to the notorious rabbi whose ultra right wing political movement, Kach, was barred from contesting Israeli elections in 1988 and listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation in 2002.

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