UK schools told to be ‘balanced’ on Palestine-Israel, BLM

The British government has told schoolteachers to be “balanced” in covering themes such as Palestine-Israel, and Black Lives Matter. The Department for Education (DfE) issued “Political impartiality in schools” guidance on Thursday. The guidance says modern historical events including “many topics relating to empire and imperialism” must be dealt with in a “balanced” way, and mentions the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict directly. It provides an example situation in which a seemingly neutral online resource fails to give a “balanced account of the conflict”, such as by presenting “partisan po…

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