Stop the War Coalition and Cage Behind Schoolchildren’s Pro-Palestinian Protests, as Teachers “Wave Through Absences”
Children as young as seven are skipping school to join pro-Palestine marches, with various hard Left groups behind the protests. The Mail has more.
Hardline groups are advising parents on how to avoid fines from schools and on setting up protests, according to the Policy Exchange think-tank.
The wave of truancy comes amid a school absence crisis triggered by the pandemic.
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said last night that it was unacceptable for pupils to put activism ahead of study.
The report claims some parents were allegedly told by teachers they would not be penalised over the protests.
The Policy Exchange also says that:
- The hard-Left Stop the War Coalition co-ordinated parents and children to strike together across the country
- Young activists were directed to material from Cage, a hardline group accused of sympathising with terrorists after calling Islamic State fanatic Jihadi John a “beautiful young man”
- Children as young as seven were seen chanting the slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’
- Activist teachers in Bristol have waived through the absences saying there would be “no risk of a fine”
Mrs. Keegan said: “Children should be in school. While I would always encourage young people to engage in world events, doing so by joining protests during school time is unacceptable.
“I am deeply concerned political groups are encouraging children to join protests at the cost of invaluable time in the classroom. Children should not be used as political tools by campaign groups, who in some cases hold extreme views.
“I strongly support schools and local authorities in setting clear expectations that pupils should be in school, and in taking action where that is not the case including using fines where applicable.”
Thousands of schoolchildren have attended marches in recent weeks. More than 400 attended a single protest in Tower Hamlets, East London, on November 16th, while 500 marched in Redbridge, North-East London, on November 17th.
Another 300 children at Beal High School in Ilford, East London, boycotted an assembly with local Labour MP and Health spokesman Wes Streeting over his stance on the war in Gaza.
The report by the Policy Exchange sparked outrage from MPs and experts who called for parents who allow their children to join protests to be fined.
Worth reading in full.
The Times has also reported on the involvement of Stop the War Coalition, a front for the Socialist Workers’ Party, in the schoolchildren’s protests.
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I’ve been donating money to Stop the War Coalition for years and have never regarded it as a front for the Socialist Workers Party.
Gillian Keegan, it’s not what she said but what she hasn’t said: ‘we should not be politicising schoolchildren of seven years of age.’
No, The wave of truancy comes amid a school absence crisis triggered by the lockdowns.
I don’t care why they thought Wes Streeting was reprehensible. Why the hell was a politician attending a high school assembly? Grooming?
“ Children should not be used as political tools by campaign groups, who in some cases hold extreme views”…..Hasn’t stopped the climate fearmongers getting kids on marches and causing climate anxiety. Shame on them!
I forget the name of the book but shortly after the second Iraq invasion a book was written about how the coverage of the situation had affected small children and it had affected them much more than adults might assume, often with troubled reactions and a sense of solidarity between the young of this country and the young of Iraq. I think we should be more mindful than to assume that very young people are somehow in their own play world and have no cogniscance of bigger pictures. They pick up on everything and they take it to heart.
They’ll most likely grow up fully propagandized and end up like this human filth. Well, you don’t have to look far when it comes to spotting the mentalists. Just look for the ever-present face coverings. I didn’t spot a single one in all the footage of the recent antisemitism march. That says one thing and one thing only to me; Sanity! I sure as hell know which one qualifies as a ”peaceful protest”;
https://twitter.com/LondonGeezer_/status/1729549853473075529
I see from the video Mogs that plod have come up to their usual standards – effing useless.
Normally in any street in Britain you will see the “diversity”. If you see a camera crew filming in towns and cities doing news reports you see all the different cultures going about their business.———— However there were exceptions to that. During the Kings Coronation, the Queens funeral and the memorial for the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing there was a distinct lack of “diversity”———-I think we all know what bunch of people were mostly missing on those occasions.
I wonder why Hamas went back on the agreement and refused to release the remaining women and children;
”The truce reportedly collapsed this morning after Hamas refused to release ten female hostages and instead sought to free abductees from other categories.
This violated the terms of the agreement, which specified that Hamas would first release all women and children being held in Gaza in exchange for Israel agreeing to a truce for as long as nine days, the Walla news site reports, citing three Israeli officials.
Hamas failed to send any list of hostages in the final hours of the truce, instead sending a message through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that it was prepared to release male hostages.
Israel responded by saying that it knows Hamas is still holding roughly 17 more women and children and that it would not hold talks on other categories of hostages until they are released.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-truce-fell-apart-after-hamas-proposed-new-talks-to-release-male-hostages-instead-of-freeing-remaining-female-abductees/
The same education secretary who nods off the indoctrination of infants in sexually explicit techniques wont lose any sleep over this.
The future for parents has to be home schooling if you love your children.
“Wave through absences”——–Well why bother upsetting anything to do with Islam when you know the consequences. No one will ever back you up if you have anything to say that is remotely critical of these people. So we all just button it. ——We capitulate.