430 high school students have been killed in Gaza.
12,500 students have been wounded.
350 teachers have been killed.
286 out of 307 school buildings are damaged.
Thank you @KaBKaBKa for conceding that Israeli Zionism is genocidal racism. The answer to your question is quite clear in my answer. You're evidently too deeply programmed to see it.
Israel doesn't have a "right" to exist. To paraphrase article 12 of the Jerusalem Declaration:
all should live together in peace in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
as equals http://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
@DropBear@prasoon@appassionato@palestine@israel For me, there is a big difference between genocide and expulsion. And not all Israelis are nationalists or dream of a master race. Nevertheless, even the peaceful Israelis there will not be able to live in peace if the Palestinians do not get their own state. A joint state is absolutely illusory. And even if there are two states and peace, Hamas or its successors will continue to attack Israel.
A Palestinian girl poses with a wedding dress found amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on June 20 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
Today in Labor History June 1 is the day that U.S. labor law officially allows children under the age of 16 to work up to 8 hours per day between the hours of 7:00 am and 9:00 pm. Time is ticking away, Bosses. Have you signed up sufficient numbers of low-wage tykes to maintain production rates with your downsized adult staffs?
The reality is that child labor laws have always been violated regularly by employers and these violations have been on the rise recently. Additionally, many lawmakers are seeking to weaken existing, poorly enforced laws to make it even easier to exploit children. Over the past year, the number of children employed in violation of labor laws rose by 37%, while lawmakers in at least 10 states passed, or introduced, new laws to roll back the existing rules. Violations include hiring kids to work overnight shifts in meatpacking factories, cleaning razor-sharp blades and using dangerous chemical cleaners on the kills floors for companies like Tyson and Cargill. Particularly vulnerable are migrant youth who have crossed the southern U.S. border from Central America, unaccompanied by parents. https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/
Of course, what is happening in the U.S. is small potatoes compared with many other countries, where exploitation of child labor is routine, and often legal. At least 20% of all children in low-income countries are engaged in labor, mostly in agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa it is 25%. Kids are almost always paid far less than adults, increasing the bosses’ profits. They are often more compliant than adults and less likely to form unions and resist workplace abuses and safety violations. Bosses can get them to do dangerous tasks that adults can’t, or won’t, do, like unclogging the gears and belts of machinery. This was also the norm in the U.S., well into the 20th century. In my soon novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” the protagonist, Mike Doyle, works as a coal cleaner in the breaker (coal crushing facility) of a coal mine at the age or 13. Many kids began work in the collieries before they were 10. They often were missing limbs and died young from lung disease. However, when the breaker bosses abused them, they would sometimes collectively chuck rocks and coal at them, or walk out, en masse, in wildcat strikes. And when their fathers, who worked in the pits, as laborers and miners, went on strike, they would almost always walk out with them, in solidarity.
Courtney Gore, the co-host of a right-wing online talk show, won a seat on a Texas school board on the basis that she would undo leftist indoctrination and get rid of educational materials with inappropriate messages about sexuality and race. Then she took office and actually read the curriculum, finding that the subject matter simply taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.” The Texas Tribune talked to her about why she ran for office, what she thinks is behind the push to take over school boards, and the backlash she's faced since speaking out against the ultra-right element of the Republican party.
@CultureDesk@bookstodon I take donation calls for Free Speech TV and get such a plethora of cranks, one telling me that , "did I know that the books being banned teach little kids how to give blow jobs?!??"
I was completely unprofessional and absolutely LOLed in his stupid ear. Moron.
Dylan, a four year old migrant from Mexico, smiles while playing with his aunt Daniela, 24, as his parents Ivan, 22, and Rubi, 22, sleep on the left after the Rivera family crossed the Border Wall into the United States from Mexico in Ruby, Arizona. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
How chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict
Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati, near Goma. The aim is for youngsters traumatised by violence to learn the game for pleasure and to develop critical thinking skills. They set up using a waterproof, foldable chessboard. Photograph: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters
A child migrant looks past clouds reflecting off the side window of a Border Patrol vehicle after she was apprehended with others for crossing into the United States from Mexico in Ruby, Arizona. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
‘This photo captures novice monks at around 6am as they wake up to collect alms. Each morning, these young #monks follow a tradition that is centuries old.
Photograph: Will Langston
A teenage boy carries his young sister to school past the burnt-out remains of a car in the Canape Vert neighbourhood. About 580,000 Haitians have fled their homes owing to gang violence but many are hoping the new government will bring a reprieve to the country’s crisis
Israeli cabinet discusses punitive measures against #UN agencies
🔶️ Months of tensions boil over after UN chief adds Israeli military to #blacklist for failing to protect #children in conflict
🔶️ Benjamin #Netanyahu’s government has discussed far-reaching measures against UN agencies operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including the possible expulsion of staff, according to five people familiar with the matter.
🔶️ The UN has slammed Israel for not doing enough to protect either the organisation’s own humanitarian personnel in Gaza or Palestinian civilians, with #Guterres calling Gaza a “graveyard for children”.
This is not Pol Pot. This is not ISIS, or some ancient evil act we read in history books. This is the results of what "only democracy in middle east" is doing right now.