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...

When a US government official calls you a liar, you go on the offense.

Exactly two years ago, a senior official at the US State Department called me a liar, to my face. He informed me that all the work that we had done on the Palestinian Authority...

Items Taken from the New PA Schoolbooks used in UNRWA schools, August 2017

The Zionist occupation started in 1856 (Social Studies, Grade 9, Part 1, 2017, p. 10) "Since the Zionist movement established in 1856 its first settlement, known as 'Montefioriyyah' , south-west of the Jerusalem...

ספרי הלימוד של הרשות הפלסטינית (רש”פ): ההתייחסות ליהודים, לישראל ולשלום

תמצית מנהלים המחקר הנוכחי מכסה את כל ביטויי ההתייחסות ל"אחר" היהודי ישראלי ולשלום עימו המצויים בספרי הלימוד העדכניים ביותר שיצאו לאור מטעם הרשות הפלסטינית לשימוש בכל בתיה"ס ביהודה, שומרון ורצועת עזה וכן בבתיה"ס שבמזרח ירושלים הפועלים לפי...

Palestinian Authority unveils new school curriculum: PA minister resists calls for curriculum of peace...

Jerusalem, Israel, June 20, 2017 – IMPACT-se is alarmed by comments made by Palestinian Authority Education Minister Sabri Saidam in relation to the unveiling of the new Palestinian school curriculum. In charge of revamping the PA education...

Palestinian Elementary School Curriculum 2016–17: Radicalization and Revival of the PLO Program

The new Palestinian curriculum, which includes new textbooks for grades 1–4, is significantly more radical than previous curricula. To an even greater extent than the 2014–15 textbooks, the curriculum teaches students to be martyrs, demonizes and denies...

UNRWA does not have any intention of changing their school textbooks

UNRWA is now running a campaign in which it shows itself demanding specific changes in the textbooks used in UNRWA schools, as circulated by some pro-Israel organizations, even though UNRWA cannot make any changes in...

President Trump saw the PA textbooks and gave Israel a green light

Informed observers of US Middle East policy often ​discuss developments between Israel and the US and  limiting themselves  to the ​difficulties of the eight years Obama , forgetting the  differences between the Israeli and American...

Abbas-Greenblatt: combat violence and terror FREE MURDERERS

IMRA: Jason Greenblatt appears to have decided to facilitate Abbas "talking the talk". "President Abbas and Mr. Greenblatt also reaffirmed the U.S. and the Palestinian Authority’s joint determination to combat violence and terrorism." BUT Abbas...

Schoolbooks of the Palestinian Authority (PA): The Attitude to Jews, Israel and Peace

Executive Summary The present research covers the attitude to the Jewish-Israeli "other", and to the issue of peace with it, as expressed in the most updated schoolbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority for use in...