No Good Deed . . . .

Here is a hypothetical: refugees fleeing genocide and civil war arrive in a small country, uninvited, seeking asylum.  Although the refugees have no connection whatsoever to the host country, the host country takes in a number of refugees close to 1% of the pre-existing population.  With school districts overcome by sudden population influx, that country spends its own money to build new schools to accommodate the children of these refugees.  Yet, so-called liberal pundits proceed to condemn the new host country.

Sounds crazy, I know.  Except it's not hypothetical, it's real, and of course, the host country is the one country on the planet that can do nothing right, ever -- Israel.

That is the gist of last week's Open Zion column claiming that Israel has set up apartheid schools for children of refugees from war-torn Eritrea and Sudan. Of course, all one has to do is google translate -- well, and read down to the very last paragraph -- the supposed source of Lisa Goldberg's piece to see that "The municipality said: 'Kindergartens are established according to the needs of the neighborhood. [The] Municipality considers its duty to provide adequate education to every child everywhere, so the children of the foreign community in Tel Aviv - Jaffa integrated in all schools in the city."  http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4420418,00.html.  

To the columnists of Open Zion, of course, this does not matter.  Neither does the report in the Jerusalem Post, which states: 

The Tel Aviv Municipality has not enacted any policy of segregation that would see local preschools exclusively for the children of asylum-seekers and other preschools for the rest of the children, the city said on Monday.

A municipality representative said that no such policy has been enacted, and that the only determining factor for where a child attends preschool is their place of residence.

The representative said that in order to accommodate the 2,716 new preschool students in the city, Tel Aviv has opened 70 new kindergarten classrooms ahead of the new school year, and that a large number of these are in neighborhoods with a high concentration of children of African asylum-seekers.

 http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Tel-Aviv-denies-policy-of-segregation-in-pre-schools-for-new-year-324319

With almost 3,000 new students, the city has a choice of overcrowding it's schools, or building new facilities.  So it builds new facilities.  Only in Israel would such an action be labelled "apartheid."  

Of course, no one at Open Zion is crying for the children of the 2 million Syrian refugees, who are living  in tents in Jordan and Turkey, who are not going to school at all this fall.