# Claim: Some Israeli Religious Schools Replace the Plus Sign

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2064837791050010695
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:10
- Published: 2026-07-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign) How could this happen?

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=2) Well, because for some Israelis, a significant number of Israelis, Christian iconography is considered deeply offensive. In fact, the most offensive.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=11) So offensive that in some Israeli religious schools, the plus sign is not used in math.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=17) The plus sign, you know, that connotes addition.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=21) Why? Because it looks like a cross. And that's considered too offensive for the eyes of schoolchildren.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=27) And so an inverted T is used. That's a fact. You can look it up.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=31) There's only one other instance we've seen of this in the world, and that's in ISIS run madrasas, where the cross was also considered offensive.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=39) This is not true in any normal Muslim country.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=45) They use plus signs, but not in Israeli religious schools.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=51) So everybody is allowed to have their own religious views and to find other people's symbols.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=58) But it might be useful for Christians in the United States to know what they are funding and making excuses for.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BQ80NriuPaY9/en/claim-some-israeli-religious-schools-replace-the-plus-sign?t=65) But of course, they don't know this.