While Angela Merkel's government dished out hefty amounts of cash to the Palestinian Authority for school education, a new report has suggested that Palestinian schoolbooks were found to preach up jihad and terrorists.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), based in Jerusalem, has analysed Palestine's schoolbooks for the upcoming academic year, to find that new curriculum in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem has become more radical than before.
According to IMPACT-se, the schoolbooks in question invoke anti-Semitic motifs, referring to the Jewish State as “Zionist occupants” and making no distinction between Zionists and Jews in general. Additionally, they brand israel and the Jewish nation as “enemies of Islam” who are to blame for poisoning Prophet Muhammad.
The textbooks, as per the report, largely take an anti-American stance too. For instance, a new grade 12 history textbook claims that the United States has taken advantage of the 9/11 attacks to “fulfil its hegemonic agenda” and justify the subsequent interference in the domestic affairs of Middle Eastern countries.
Another textbook “openly endorses” the 1972 Munich massacre, referring to it as the Munich Operation, the report said. The terror act was carried out by members of the Black September group, who killed 11 Israeli hostages and a Western German police officer, the paper…
