If the facts are as presented, they (both sides) are right. Can it not be cleared up if the teacher phrases accordingly: "It is my opinion that... " Absent the disclaimer, it's understandable that the comments can be interpreted as, the institution's point of view, which, obviously, it isn't.

..of leftist jews who wants to destroy those who protects his life, or give bad reputation to his own country. Such idiots....

It's at school that the worm is put in the apple under the guise of 'innocent' information. Look at how many supposedly intelligent uni students suddenly turn out anti semitic and, to be fair, most of the uni professors being old soviet era peaceniks really doesn't help either. Sorry, but when a little country such as Israel, the only Jewish country in the world, is fighting for its survival against the rest of the world and its devious propaganda, sowing lies and stirring hatred, is really ignoble. Who do you think you are? There's no excuse for tainting these young minds with biased political opinions instead of teaching them to think and see for themselves, it's wrong and for a teacher it's dishonest. Granted, a national army is not the Salvation Army, and none is perfect, but compared to all others,"the IDF shows extraordinary restraint and takes unique measures to avoid innocent casualties" as declared by a British Officer. Like for the police, you don't have to like the army, but these people are ready to put their lives on the line to protect you. So, the least you can do is not to undermine them.

I expect a comitee to be formed in Israel regarding Un-Israeli activities any day now...thats the kind of country it has become

uses his posirtion as a bully pulpit. Our impressionable youth need to be protected from him.

Verta gives extreme radical leftist propaganda in the classroom, says the land belongs to the Arabs and that we are intruders. That's terrible communist propaganda along the lines of the communist party that opposed Zionism over the course of 100 years. Clearly there need to cameras in the classrooms, not only to prevent this abuse of power by teachers & to verify what has been said, but to prevent other kinds of abuse as well.

When a teacher gives a historical lesson to his class and adds his own controversial opinion on the subject of his curriculum, it is absolutely considered "brain "wash".. In this case, he has committed a crime of distortion and treason... There is nothing to love about this kind of lesson /personal view point...It is not only damaging young minds, he was entrusted to teach, but discouraging the students to learn and discover their Jewish history the story of their Homeland... Verta has to be discharged ! . He is not only factually wrong, but is also committing an outright homicide against those young minds, he was entrusted to introduce to teach...He should be expelled and hold accountable...

If a teacher teaches condemnation of the IDF then for me he should be shown the door. Where would Israel be without the IDF? A professor in California just published a book claiming that BinLaden was simply a freedom fighter and blamed America for killing him. And his book is required reading! All this misled traitorous garbage is teaching our young to undermine their own countries. So let them go live somewhere else. If anywhere would have them. I can think of many countries where they'd either be in jail now or hanging from a rope!

A visit to Syria would mean a " short sharp shock " and would hopefully open the eyes of this very misguided fool.

the entire country is under spell of Leftist media outlets and the citizens are relentlessly bombarded with anti Israeli propaganda in the guise of 'Peace Process", that started with "Jericho First" and there's no sight as to what will be "The Last"... probably no cow is too holy to slaughter, once you throw caution &self respect to the wind.

"A TEACHER WHO YOU CAN LOVE' Israelis ,especially the israeli youth , love and ADORE the army the IDF and they are rightly proud of it. They do not love nor appreciate those ,like Verta ,who badmouth their military .

Is he for real ? ( just proves how detached from reality Adam Verta truly is .)

Verta would not even last five seconds there .

DO NOT BITE THE HAND WHICH DEFENDS YOU.

I urge Mr Verta to consider that the existence of the I.D.F( Israeli Military ) has nothing to do with morals. The IDF exists to defend and to gurantee the survival of Israel ,the one and only Jewish State and there is nothing ,I repeat NOTHING immoral about that whatsoever.

In a perfect world ,mankind would live in blissful peace and harmony happily ever after. The reality is however that the world is not like that and Israel must do what it must do to survive. Morals have nothing to with with anything and bleeding hearts such as Mr .Verta are extrememly naive ...and that is putting it midly and kindly .

In a world where anti-Semitism is again on the rise... where academic and government institutions are increasingly programming hatred for all things related to the need for Jews to have the security of their own homeland, the IDF is our armor and our shield. The IDF is our only armor and shield - which is why Verta would aggressively delegitimize it to an audience that cannot escape him.

The IDF , warts and all ,is all that stands between jews and Auschwitz number 2 so Verta should zip it .