After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate
Israel Orders Schools to Discuss Jamal Julani’s Beating
NYTimes.com
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Ran Melamed, left, led a discussion on recent attacks by Israeli youths. His class is unusual for its mix of Jews and Arabs.
By JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: August 27, 2012
JERUSALEM — Tamer Jbarah, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who speaks accentless Hebrew after years in a bilingual school that is about half Jewish, said he was not at all surprised when a mob of Jewish teenagers beat an Arab teenager unconscious this month while hundreds watched and did nothing to help.
“People are taught to hate,” he said, “so they hate.