Religion and ideology for destructive mind control systems essentially works for “infecting” the mind, compelling followers to commit any kind of atrocity. This has been identified as the primary threat of the third millennium. Examples of mind control systems (destructive cults) include Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, under the guise of Buddhism, the Ku Klux Klan in the United States under the guise of Christianity, Zionism under the guise of Judaism, ISIS under the guise of Islam, and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) under the guise of Marxist Shi’ism.
Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan, world justice and peace advocate, writer, educator, and community organizer, teaches language and education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of “PALESTINE IN ISRAELI BOOKS – IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA IN EDUCATION,” the work in which she outlines and develops the main points stated in this short video.
According to Professor Elhanan, it is impossible to underestimate the power not only of educational systems, but also of those who build them and the educators who work within them. What make genocides possible is not only the armies or militias, but also an entire citizenry that supports them and gets involved in them directly or indirectly. Genocides are carried out with weapons without also being promoted, encouraged, and justified by writers, educators, academics, journalists, entertainers (actors and actresses, singers, comedians…), scientists, advertisers, and one’s next neighbor, whether that neighbor is a baker or a plumber, a truck driver or a shoemaker.
Text of the short video:
How do you take nice Jewish boys and girls and turn them into monsters, killers of children when they reach 18? It takes a very long, thorough and sophisticated education to do that. And that was my question. You know, how do you do that? How come, you know? We have an organization called Breaking the Silence, where soldiers confess what they did in the West Bank. And many of these confessions, in many of these confessions, the soldiers say, I was educated to believe that whatever I do to the Palestinians will save us from another Holocaust. And only when I aimed my rifle at a little girl, I realized that I was the evil one. And then I stopped. So this education is so entrenched. It’s really you know, Richard Dawkins hated religion and he called religion mind infection. But, I think, this is mind infection. Ideologies can be mined infectors. And they are so infected with it … and the dehumanization of Palestinians especially is so strong that it’s very hard for people, especially young people, to get rid of that and to see these people as human beings.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh