The school year ends and in every school, children eagerly attend the end-of-year ceremony, where parents and grandparents will delight in watching their little ones act, sing, and have fun.
This year, I have had the fortune to witness some events where children participated in plays or musicals infused with wokeness. I have seen performances about anti-imperialist uprisings and a drag queen host entertaining a 6-year-old audience in a theater.
The peak of indoctrination of minors was reported in various media just a few days ago: In a public school in Madrid, a group of uniformed children, with replicas of weapons and hooded like Hamas terrorists, performed their performance on the "liberation of Palestine."
In some public schools in Barcelona, you can find posters alluding to support for the jihadist struggle, mostly disguised as solidarity or emotional attachment. Announcements using the friendly drawing of a watermelon call to stop a nonexistent genocide. There was also a day dedicated to this in some Catalan educational institutions last September, called by union entities.
The mind of a child is like fresh cement; the experiences within their educational framework leave marks that will remain there.
Every time an international conflict is turned into a school cause, the boundary between education and propaganda is erased. And when that propaganda is directed at the youngest, we are faced with a deeply irresponsible attempt at child radicalization.
School should not be a place for such practices. The teacher should not be a moral commissioner, nor should the classroom be a field of emotional political manipulation; their role is not to dictate which cause deserves support, but to teach how to think, compare, doubt, and analyze sources while discarding ideological components.
Educating in values does not mean instilling a cause, especially if that cause encourages the elimination of a human group, in this case, the Jews. Forming in values is providing tools so that each person, when they have the judgment and maturity, can choose how to act in the face of injustice.
Should the responsible authorities allow this fierce child indoctrination?
Do parents want their children to be martyrs, or to embrace Islamic Sharia law?
Jihadist propaganda abounds through the media, politics, and social networks, disguised as a struggle for human rights. Anything goes; any gesture that highlights what is actually misinformation, ignorance, and Judeophobia can be used to spread lies and dogmatize, instilling hatred and resentment based on deeply emotional impressions.
Stimulated from the highest echelons of political power, every environment today seems hostile to the values of coexistence and freedom that took centuries to achieve in Western democracies. Wokeness has permeated social strata with its anti-system poison. The West is sinking into the waters of the darkest obscurantism.
In this upside-down world, LGBTQ groups support those who want to kill them, feminist collectives uphold those who punish women and deny their rights, journalists praise those who impose totalitarian censorship, unionists provide support to those who grant no rights to their workers, and some teachers' organizations are complicit with those who only allow teaching in their countries with Sharia law in hand.
There is no memory to recall the attacks in La Rambla in Barcelona, in Atocha, London, Paris, Nice, New York, or Buenos Aires; executed by the agents of Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, or Al-Qaeda, with the support of well-known dictatorships and monarchies.
Banalizing jihadism and leaving children’s education unprotected, the West paves the way to its own catastrophe, surrendering to its self-destruction.
