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UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with providing healthcare, education and loans to the descendants of Arabs who used to live in Israel, has come under fire recently because the head of the agency was...

With all the recent publicity afforded to the administrative indiscretions of UNRWA,  the time has come to focus on a more   vital aspect of this refugee agency: education. After all, UNRWA allocates 54% of...

Introduction Schoolbooks indicate the values a society would wish to instill in the minds of its younger generations. When published by a regime  – as the case is in the Palestinian Authority (PA) –...

Official documents issued about the new US peace plan for the Palestinian Arab community presented the word "education" more than sixty times, yet not one word about Palestinian indoctrination to war. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MEP-narrative-document_FINAL.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MEP_programsandprojects.pdf Comprehensive examinations...

I am a scholar of Near Eastern Studies, holding a Ph.D. degree in this field from Princeton University. Professionally, I am a journalist who worked for 42 years at Israel's Arabic radio station in...

This report updates the previous study about how Jews, Israel and peace appear in Palestinian Authority (PA) textbooks.3 The study was conducted by Dr. Arnon Groiss and commissioned by the Center for Near East...

Palestinian Authority Textbooks Debate The Journal’s April 23 online story concerning the introduction of congressional legislation requiring the annual review of Palestinian Authority (PA) textbooks was a one-sided portrayal (“Reps. Sherman, Zeldin Introduce Bill Requiring...

Elizabeth Campbell, head of the Washington Representative Office for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) wrote a piece on April 5 in The New York Times in response to an April 2 article in the same newspaper by...

A bipartisan bill has been proposed in US Congress that would require the US Secretary of state to submit annual reports reviewing the educational material used by Palestinian Authority and UNRWA schools in Palestinian...

With the election campaign to the Knesset behind us and before forming a new government, while anticipating resumption of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, I would like to raise an important point: without which...