Observers say EU-funded review of Palestinian textbooks reeks of incompetence, concealment
December 25, 2020
(JNS) In a ground-breaking move and in response to the lack of change in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum and the continued insertion of anti-Semitism, hate and incitement to violence and martyrdom in its textbooks, the Norwegian parliament endorsed a cut last week in aid to the P.A.
In 2018, the United Kingdom commissioned a report on Palestinian textbooks from the Germany-based Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, which then published a report that was found to be riddled with mistakes. The European Union then decided to commission another report, due.
Schools being operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency are teaching Palestinian children as young as 6 to hate, kill and martyr themselves, according to a recently-completed study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.
The study reproduces fifteen examples taken directly from Palestinian school textbooks currently used in UNRWA schools in which hatred and violence are extolled as virtues.
First graders learn grammar by reference to the concepts of martyrdom and physical conflict.
Third graders recite a poem calling for “sacrificing blood” to remove the enemy from the land by “eliminating the usurper” and to “annihilate the remnants of the foreigners.”
Tue Dec 22, 2020 The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) revealed disturbing new evidence of continued Qatari government schools teaching anti-Semitic tropes, as well as presenting hateful depictions of Jews and Israel in its government published textbooks for school children. Qatar’s neighbors, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have normalized relations with the Jewish state in September of this year. The early results of the peace treaties have already brought extensive trade and tourism between the three nations. Qatar, situated on the Persian Gulf between Bahrain and the UAE, is however, turning the next generation school children into intolerant bigots and anti-Semites, while in neighboring Bahrain and the UAE there is a renaissance in Jewish community life. In Qatar the young are been inculcated with Nazi-like tropes, whereas in the UAE and Bahrain, amity and brotherhood are being celebrated.
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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.