Mudalalah Louz lists herself as the principal at UNRWA’s Beit Lahia School in Gaza. Mudalalah Louz’s Facebook profile picture includes a banner that appears to call for the violent destruction of the State of Israel. She also posted photos of elementary school students participating in a school ceremony in which Israel is replaced by Palestine.
The inflammatory banner beneath Mudalalah Louz’s profile picture depicts four men in keffiyehs physically destroying Israel as a Jewish state. The two men on the right appear to be placing chains around the State while the other two men, armed with automatic weapons, pierce the blue Star of David with the flagpole of the Palestinian flag in the shape of a spear, replacing it. The Star of David is both an iconic Jewish symbol and also represents the Israeli flag. Thus, the image depicts Palestine destroying and taking over Israel.
The text at the top reads “We have been carrying this Land [Palestine, as depicted without Israel] on our shoulders for seventy years [a reference to the number of years since the State of Israel’s formation]. When we fall, it does not fall. We shall never let it fall.”
The destructive message in Mudalalah Louz’s cover photo is passed on to her students. This photo shows a group of schoolchildren marching behind their young leader who is adorned with a crown that says “freedom,” and a map of Palestine that erases Israel, labeling the entire territory as “Palestine.” The students behind the line leader carry hearts inscribed with the names of cities, including cities located in the State of Israel’s pre-1967 borders, such as Jaffa and Acre. Thus, the students are being taught that to achievefreedom, they must eliminate Israel and replace it with Palestine, as Jaffa (near Tel Aviv) and Bethlehem (in the West Bank) are equally Palestinian.
