IN Denmark, we want to think about ourselves in Vanguard’s freedom to express. We are the first country in the world To legalize porn. We forced the right to Publish Caricatures In the Prophet Muhammad. Instead of marginalizes the so-called types of Populists in Parliament, we They are invited to political cooperation. We are proud of ourselves without fear of controversy and we are good at doing the authorities trying to tell us what to do – especially what doesn’t do – looks funny.
Danes also want to think about our country as a model of democracy. Thus, the national election for Children aged 13 to 16 An elaborate tradition, regarded as a part of Civic Education and a preparation for democratic participation. All schools are invited to participate in exercise, which is held every year. Students debate 20 issues within three weeks before votes for parties who are also eligible to stand in real general elections.
But in the past few weeks, however, the National School Elections dragged into controversy after the decision to ban a theme from the list of issues for 2026 votes: The Palestine question.
Must be dimmark Identify Palestine As a sovereign state? This specific question is an important issue in our time and one political motivation fighting with young voters. This excludes an extraordinary act, attacked from the left and believe in the political spectrum. This is the opposite of the right preparation for the youth for Democracy in Danish, critics say, and are in line with what one country stands.
The decision was announced by the Parliament speakers and justified by two parties who presided over Danish governments in the last 30 years: Social Democrats and the Liberal Party. The issue simply fires for classroom skills, they argue, and jeopardize the young people from minority groups in uncomfortable situations. In addition, it risks to give students a bad experience in democracy; This issue is very complicated for them to be relevant to meaningful.
What is revealed here is that the same parties often support an understanding of democracy that puts the freedom of controversial consultation and offensive exchanges above defending minority and public order. General Way, it is the Danish model of Democracy: It is limited to disabling oral when it comes to political discourse about Islam and immigration; We doubt the liberal supereos want to protect minority feelings and public order.
But when it comes to speech and Palestine, managed parties promote a comprehension of democracy that sets personal sensitivity and public order more than free speech and rights of sin. It is very impressive. If the complexity was first, it seemed not to argue that the mechanisms driving the climate crisis should be recognized than if Palestinian states should be recognized.
The real explanation seems clear. Not the students who do not control the Palestinian question – these are the managed parties that lead their own failures to Danish students and want to avoid it and the other questions that are unavoidable: The war of Gaza, exported to Danish arms amidst the Denmark of the US and Israel and our obligations to liberal institutions and the human rights of Palestinians.
They seem to be happy to talk about the battle of Ukraine, because the little Denmark supports the country invaded by a larger and more powerful neighbor. We do not share the Liberal Liberal command and international law against aggression. Morally, our interview with Ukraine reveals Denmark as the country we want. But our complications of war crimes made by Gaza revealed us as the country we had done but could not protect.
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Palestinian questionna hence reveals a shocking mistake in our current order. If the Russian soldiers did what the soldiers of Israel did in Gaza or the West Bank, our Prime Minister, whose published in the public. But he gave the impression of saying the Palestinians only if forced into circumstances, the agenda or direct questions about it.
Frederiksen often calls Gaza status “sad” and a “human danger”. However, he discusses the suffering of the Palestinians when we are innocent people. Although the Denmark government has major levers can be obtained by Israel’s extremist government to account for. This is generally chosen not.
Despite its pride in its democratic credentials, Denmark does not begin to change the formal agreement that makes EU trading largest colleagues. The Denmark government last month supports a review of the bonds of EU-Israel, but it has not suggested penalties against the specified politicians of Israel or Israel as a condition, as it is not known as Palestinian, as Spain, Ireland and Slovenia has been done.
However, our government continues to allow weapons of Danish weapons to provide Israel, indirectly through the US or directly, with Extra parts for F-35 bombs that Israeli forces defended Gaza. This is despite our leaders know it violates the EU rules, which order an obligation to deprive the export of military equipment if there is a “clear risk” that it can available to make war crimes.
art Petition of citizens It is asked that Denmark ends all direct and indirect weapons of export to Israel gathered more than 50,000 signatures. Last week IT brought to the floor In parliament. But debate has also been explained as a wide range The security alliance is placed in the US More than human rights to Gaza.
We help the crimes of Israel’s war while moving against them in Ukraine. Our government seems to accept the suffering of Palestinians as collateral damage to a foreign policy that has been damaged because it is based on an alliance that the US has lost. Denmark is basically sent arms of a bully and then mourns the consequences of them used.
It is, in this context, revealing that our leaders do not want our students to discuss the Palestinian State as part of their education – because they cannot stop themselves. Our chosen representatives do not want our democracy to expose their failure to the western moral scandal in the 21st century.
For students in this controversy is a precious, if unknown, introduction to democracy. They know how those who are in power often try to explain the agenda and limits of democratic participation in democratic democratic participation. It also shows that what young people talk about things. This can be a way of moving the best of our democracy against the worst and to build their power like future voters. And hopefully, the lost question is the most debate of Denmark schools in the coming year.
