Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Glad to see FrontPage is taking notice of the train wreck in Andover. They've published an update by former student Eric Danis that brings us current -- with Wheel of Jihad Justice being forced back into the school (at the school's expense) by a threatened lawsuit by Ron Francis, Tom Meyers and the ACLU: Another Victory for Hamas High
Now Francis has struck again at his school. In a recent missive to an e-mail list of the Green-Rainbow Party, he revealed that he is quite pleased with his latest attempt to brainwash Andover students:
Last Month the Wheels of Justice human rights group was blocked from speaking at Andover High school because pro-apartheid (Jimmy Carter's words ! now) forces, including the ADL and other zionists, pressured the Andover Public Schools Administration to not allow the Wheels of Justice peace group to speak at Andover High School.
In a dramatic turn-around, that decision has been reversed today thanks to the intervention of the ACLU and several social studies teachers who were prepared to go to court over the matter. Negotiations between the School Committee lawyer and the ACLU led to the school administration agreeing to have the Wheels of Justice speak at the high school and also paying the expenses to bring the Wheels of Justice back.
Typically for Francis, he refuses to capitalize the word “Zionism,†and insists that all supporters of Israel are “pro-Apartheid.†For those unfamiliar with the Palestinian propaganda group Wheels of Justice (WoJ), it sufficiently demonstrates its political agenda, noting that one WoJ speaker has described the U.S. media as a “campaign of misinformation by Zionist-leaning news editors,†while another has called Zionism “a disease.â€
It was Francis who originally contacted the WoJ to speak at his high school’s social studies conference. Despite the impropriety of a teacher turning a school-sponsored conference into a de facto political rally, Francis has never been publicly reprimanded by the school’s administration...
Isn't that interesting, though? There's never been a statement by anyone in authority that Francis's behavior, including employing students and distributing flyers to agitate the students in opposition to an administrative decision...no one in authority has stood up publicly and exercised their own free speech to say that any of this is inappropriate. The rest is here.
Update: By coincidence, the issue also makes an appearance in the New York Sun in a piece by Richard Cravatts: High School Propaganda
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Francis, who also is an informal adviser to Students for Middle East Justice, an unofficial after school group, students will have the opportunity of listening to the anti-American, anti- Israel view of the Wheels of Justice organization. Wheels of Justice preaches a one-sided message that all the woes of the Palestinians are singularly the result of Israel's "colonization, occupation, displacement, apartheid and the denial of the right of Palestinian refugees."...