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Saudi Arabia’s reluctance to normalize relations with Israel is hardly surprising. Anti-Israel and antisemitic tropes and stereotypes are so deeply embedded in Saudi society that it is hard for the government to justify a rapprochement with the Jewish state.
Certainly, the festering Palestinian problem, plus the absence of a a two-state solution, also inhibit the Saudis from establishing formal diplomatic relations with Israel.
Secondary students sit for an exam in a government school in Riyadh
Credit: FAHAD SHADEED /Reuters
Hardline Islamist and anti-Semitic content has been removed from Saudi Arabia’s curriculum, according to a new report, in what researchers say marks a historic shift in attitudes in the Gulf Kingdom.
A study of the latest Saudi teaching materials found that official state textbooks - distributed to 30,000 schools in Saudi Arabia and abroad - no longer contained calls for non-believers and gay men to be punished by death, nor the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews control the world.
Also gone were predictions of an apocalyptic final battle in which Muslims would kill all Jews, found the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), an Israel-based group that reviews teaching materials from around the world.
The foreign minister of Germany was criticized on Monday after he expressed disapproval of the sabotaging over the weekend of.
The GEI review made serious mistakes that undermined the credibility of the report. These included analyzing the wrong textbooks and attributing Arabic-language Israeli textbooks to the PA, ignoring antisemitism and ignoring incitement to violence, martyrdom and jihad.
In a turn of events that exposes the EU’s seeming engagement in pretense, Riem Spielhaus, the head of the study at GEI, actually admitted to German daily newspaper
Taggesspiegel in October that the Israeli textbooks were indeed mistakenly included in the review.