So it turns out that those sensational media headlines about three in five Jewish pupils experiencing antisemitism in schools were based on a survey of just 90 pupils. Yes, NINETY. And only 29 pupils reportedly answered yes to the relevant question. Yet these figures have been splashed across the national media to justify proposals that threaten to silence pro-Palestine expression in schools and potentially drag Muslim and non-Muslim children into the Prevent counter-terrorism programme. This is why I hate the mainstream media. They lie, mislead and manipulate. We've been taken for complete fools by this antisemitism in schools report. And frankly, the alternative media, with a few honourable exceptions, have been painfully slow to expose what's going on. Even now, the response from Muslims and pro-Palestinians has been shockingly weak. This is about the censorship of our children, the Zionisation of education and the potential criminalisation of young people whose only offence is having the humanity and courage to speak out against genocide. Yet, apart from little old me and a handful of others, we seem incapable of mounting any meaningful pushback. Where is the outrage? Where is the leadership? Where are the organisations supposedly representing our communities?

I've just been reading the government's proposals to "combat antisemitism" in British schools, and my initial impression is that this is an outrageous attempt to effectively Zionise our education system and eradicate sympathy for Palestine amongst pupils, all dressed up as a campaign against antisemitism. Pupils can see with their own eyes, on their phones every single day, the genocide unfolding in Palestine. Yet these proposals appear to be an attempt to instruct teachers to persuade children to turn a blind eye to what they are witnessing, to look the other way and suppress their natural sense of moral outrage. Once again, the government has embraced the agenda of the pro-Israel lobby, allowing its priorities to shape education policy under the guise of combating prejudice. There must be serious scrutiny of these proposals and robust pushback from teachers' unions, individual teachers and pupils. I have no issue with combating genuine antisemitism, but it must never become a pretext for silencing legitimate criticism of Israel or suppressing solidarity with the Palestinian people.