The Palestinian textbook problem

On what values does the Palestinian Authority and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school system raise and educate generations of students? Dr. Arnon Gross, formerly a senior Arabic language broadcaster at Voice...

About the Report of the Mideast Freedom Forum Study of Palestinian Authority Textbooks

Paul Antshel, a Holocaust survivor whose pseudonym is Paul Celan, is today considered one of Germany's leading modern poets. He wrote a chilling poem called "Death Fugue" (Todesfuge) about life in a concentration camp,...

European Parliament raises issue with UNRWA textbooks promoting hate

The European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee raised issue with the current teaching materials being circulated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestinian youth, during a hearing with Special Adviser to...

Newsworthy in latest UNRWA school books: ​​ Replacing the term “Israeli occupation” with “Zionist...

UNRWA  has always indoctrinated, implicitly though, that the pre-67 territories were part of sovereign Palestine and that they should be liberated as well. The new approach is that this issue is now stressed further...

No vetting of Textbooks Exists in Jerusalem Arab schools, Located in Sovereign Israel

I was present in the Knesset Education Committee on jan 30, 2017 when that Knesset committee sent an urgent directive to the Jerusalem Municipality to vet the school books fro Arab Schools in Jerusalem. However,...

Greenblatt and Kushner: Remove indoctrination before improving economics

The media universally reports that US Presidential envoys Kushner and Greenblatt are currently “expected to discuss only the economics of the Palestinian Authority at this time”. There is a danger that their singular focus on...

Newest UNRWA School books presented for the first time… at the Swedish Parliament

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), fostered in 1948 to aid more than half a million Arabs refugees who left their homes in during Israel War of Independence, today serves more than...

The Report Is Out: A Look Behind the Curtain to EU Assistance to the...

(Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2021)--B’nai B’rith International has just published an essential report, pulling back the curtain on European Union (EU) assistance to the Palestinian Authority and other beneficiaries. The report, titled “Aligning Principles and...

Palestinian Textbooks Still Celebrate Terrorists

There was a small kerfuffle this weekend as stories came out that the official Palestinian fifth grade textbook for teaching the Arabic language mentioned how great Dalal Mughrabi was — but used the wrong photo of...

Response to UNRWA Director of Education on World Teachers’ Day

In a letter to UNRWA's teachers on UNESCO's World Teachers' Day, October 5, 2020, Dr. Caroline Pontefract, UNRWA's Director of Education, speaks of UNRWA's commitment "to ensure that each and every Palestine refugee student...