A classroom moment that exposed the limits of inclusion

(JNS) — It started with a sentence spoken in a classroom.

A teacher told a group of students that Israel was bombing Iranian children. The statement was presented without context, without clarification and without any attempt to frame the complexity of what was being discussed. My son was sitting in that room.

For him, this is not distant news. His family lives in Israel. They move in and out of shelters as missiles are intercepted overhead. This is part of their daily life, something I have experienced firsthand through my time being a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces during times of conf...