Marcus Sheff

Marcus Sheff is the CEO of IMPACT-se - The Institute for Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education

 DURING HIS address to the UN General Assembly, last month, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi holds up a picture of Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani. This year, the Iranian curriculum includes passages commemorating Soleimani’s martyrdom.

Iranian students are also protesting against oppressive educations -opinion

 THE ENTRANCE to an UNRWA school in Bethlehem: Schoolchildren are taught a poem that encourages them to die as martyrs by killing Israelis, described as a ‘hobby,’ says the writer.

UNRWA is radicalizing Palestinian students - opinion

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and UAE Ambassador Mohamed Al Khaja pose at the opening ceremony of the United Arab Emirates Embassy in Tel Aviv last year.

The Emirati school curriculum: When peace goes to school


Will the US take responsibility for UNRWA? - opinion

How much longer can UNRWA get away with this is entirely up to its donors, because clearly the situation is and never has been fully under their control.

 AN UNRWA ELEMENTARY school for boys in the Gaza Strip.

More than a shift in tactics needed – opinion

Governments and legislators know exactly what the content is in the textbooks and they will no longer suffer it.

THE PALESTINIAN flag flies at a Palestinian Authority diplomatic post.

The PA’s latest educational curriculum is a strategic move toward hate

IMPACT-se has been examining curricula in the Middle East for over twenty years through the prism of internationally-accepted standards of peace and tolerance.

Palestinian schoolchildren take part in a lesson at a school run by UNRWA in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem

‘Peace to Prosperity’ starts in Palestinian schools

By the time Palestinian students reach higher education, they have already been thoroughly radicalized by the current Palestinian textbooks.

Palestinian schoolchildren take part in a lesson at a school run by UNRWA

Assad's school curriculum: Love for Russia, hate for Jews

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi

Time for UNRWA to face the truth about its textbooks

According to the textbooks being read by half a million Palestinian children, the only solution available is victory via resistance, jihad, radical Islamism and defeating Israel once and for all.

Palestinian employee of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) hold a sign during a protest against a US decision to cut aid, in Gaza City January 29, 2018. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

A decade since the battle of Jenin, ‘the myth of Jeningrad'

Headlines: The IDF did not exactly cover itself in glory on the information front.

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Headliners: Rockets and lies

Our challenge is the hard work of putting the story into the proper perspective so that it receives appropriate media attention.

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Headliners: Let the games begin!

A more accurate headline to the end of the Israeli-Palestinian talks would have been that the Palestinians abandoned the talks in Amman.

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Headliners 2011: The year the world changed

2012 will surely be like nothing we have seen before.

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