Despite promised reforms, PA textbooks still teach antisemitic, anti-Israel messages | First comprehensive review in four years finds no meaningful curriculum reform in textbooks for grades 1-4 and 12, which were due to be updated this year

https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-promised-reforms-pa-textbooks-still-teach-antisemitic-anti-israel-messages/

Posted by NotSoSaneExile

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  1. Thought this was Pennsylvania textbooks. Makes way more sense that the Palestine Authority textbooks are this way.

  4. Yeah, there’s been other extreme shit going on for the last 2 years for anyone to worry about textbooks, not to mention it’s an extraordinarily poor region in the first place. Can you imagine trying to run a school in a militarily-occupied region with barely any funding?

    The books should be changed, but good grief it’s like going into the post-Civil War American South and being surprised that textbooks still refer disparagingly to black people.

    At the same time, some of the comments in this thread are hilarious in their naive attempt to explain the chicken or the egg debate about radicalization in Palestinian schools. Using my example about the post-Civil War American South, would anyone seriously claim that the racial radicalization of White Southerners began at school?? Nah, that begins far before school.

  5. > Haifa and Jaffa are within Israel’s internationally recognized borders, and Israel annexed East Jerusalem, which contains the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, more than four decades ago. The poem appears with an illustration of a boy and girl in Palestinian scout uniforms gazing toward Jerusalem.

    I can’t believe they are clinging to land that was lost more than 4 decades ago.

    They should wait a couple of thousand years first and only then their claim makes sense.

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