UNRWA textbooks still include hate, antisemitism despite pledge to remove — watchdog
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Israeli organization says that rather than taking the material out of the 2022 curriculum, the UN Palestinian refugee agency has merely taken it off its public education portal

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Summary:

Jul 7, 2022 UNRWA textbooks still include hate, antisemitism despite … violence against Israel and hatred of Jews, despite promises to remove such content.

  • An Israeli watchdog group called IMPACT-se has found that UNRWA textbooks still contain incitement against Israel and Jews, despite promises to remove such content.

  • Specifically, the textbooks encourage jihad, violence, martyrdom and promote anti-Semitism.

  • UNRWA has removed the problematic content from its public education portal but not from actual classrooms.

  • Exercises in the textbooks teach about sacrificing blood to liberate Jerusalem and resisting the enemy courageously.

  • A poem teaches that dying as a martyr by killing Israelis is a hobby.

  • Islamic education material depicts Jews as inherently treacherous and hostile to Islam.

  • Israel is described as an imperialist conspiracy to divide the Arab world and Israeli cities are labeled as Palestinian.

  • IMPACT-se says the textbooks do not align with UN values of neutrality, human rights and non-discrimination.

  • US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield called the textbook content a “red line.”

  • Similar criticisms have been made of Palestinian Authority textbooks, but Palestinians reject the claims of incitement.