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Report shows improvement in Saudi textbooks, though extremism still lingers

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The first full review of the Saudi curriculum in more than a decade shows that while improvements have been made, extremist content still exists. For example, Jews are blamed as assassins, described as monkeys, and...
Palestinian Authority schoolbooks. Credit: Matzav.com.

PA erases references of Israel, Jewish people and peace from school textbooks

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References to Israel, the Jewish people and peace have been removed from 2019-20 Palestinian Authority textbooks, according to a recent study. The study, which was carried out by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural...
Students from Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill., meet as part of a newly created club, the Association of Jewish Students. At right is special-education teacher Dr. Anne Zavell, the club sponsor, Credit: CTeen.

‘The power of young people’: Skokie teens take proactive steps to introduce Judaism to...

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Like any American high-schooler, Riva Weiss started the school year off with a flurry of activity, albeit with a new development she has been mulling over since late spring. That’s the start of the...
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. Credit: Annika Haas via Flickr.

European Union to scrutinize Palestinian textbooks for signs of hatred, incitement

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The European Union will investigate whether E.U. funds are going towards Palestinian textbooks teaching incitement to hatred and violence, its High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, announced on Wednesday. The investigation...
Palestinian boys raise their hands at a school in Gaza supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in September 2011. Credit: U.N. Photo/Shareef Sarhan.

UN-funded social-studies textbook says ‘Zionist occupation started in 1856’

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A 2017 United Nations-funded school textbook for Arab students offers a revisionist history of Israel as part of its goal to incite violence against Israelis. “Since the Zionist movement established in 1856 its first settlement,...
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Group raises alarm over UNRWA’s anti-Israel incitement within its Jerusalem schools

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Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighborhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that...
Palestinian children hold posters with the picture of former Palestinian head Yasser Arafat and current Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas during a rally in Hebron marking the 12th anniversary of Arafat’s death Nov. 10, 2016. Credit: Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

Palestinians schoolbooks still promote terror and the demise of Israel

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A new study on Palestinian textbooks found that the Palestinians still support terror and destroying Israel, and funnel misinformation to their children, which doesn’t exactly surprise Israeli experts. The four-year study by the Israel-based Meir Amit Intelligence...
E.U. Parliament in Brussels. Credit: Andrijko Z. via Wikimedia Commons.

European Parliament to vote on freezing aid to Palestinian Authority over textbook incitement

The European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee will vote on whether to freeze more than 15 million euros ($17 million) in aid to the Palestinian Authority unless it removes incitement to violence against Israel in...
U.K. Parliament in London. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

British government plans inquiry into incitement in Palestinian textbooks

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The British government is set to review the Palestinian Authority’s educational curriculum over growing concerns that British taxpayers are paying for the Palestinians to teach children incitement and anti-Semitism. In a letter to Labour Friends...

Latest Palestinian textbooks show increased indoctrination to jihad and martyrdom, examination finds

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By B. CHERNITSKY In July 2017, the Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks for the 2017-18 school year were published. Some of the books are new, and some remained unchanged. An examination of the middle-school books for Islamic Education,...