Palestinian Education

Palestinian ‘revised’ curriculum continues to promote antisemitism, glorify October 7

According to a new IMPACT-se report, despite international expectations and hopes, the PA-sanctioned school material failed to reduce inflammatory and inciting rhetoric.

Palestinian students
 Palestinian schoolgirls read books in a library at school run by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in Silwan in east Jerusalem October 10, 2018.

Palestinian textbooks feature misogyny funded by Europe, report finds

 Mosab Hassan Yousef visit to locations of the October 7 massacre

'Jihad must stop': Hamas founder's son talks UNRWA, support for Israel

Palestinian kids display their textbooks

'No peace in the shadow of radicalization'


UN's Francesca Albanese: 'Manipulate curricula to obscure Palestinian culture, history'

The UNRWA is among the primary bodies in Gaza responsible for providing education, health care, and social services to the territories population.

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against job cuts by UNRWA, in Gaza City September 19, 2018.

Education, business program to aid east Jerusalem youth amid budget crisis

Business mogul Erel Margalit’s new gap year program prepares east Jerusalem Arabs for integration into Israeli universities and economy.

BaKehila "Gap Year” program is designed to help young Arabs advance in Israeli higher education and business.

Palestinian textbook bill gains bipartisan support in Congress

Palestinian schools use textbooks that promote antisemitism and violence against Israelis as well as erasing Israel's existence and legitimacy.

A Palestinian boy wearing a Hamas headband.

UNRWA continues to teach and spread hate to Palestinians, report states

The report included 100 pages of evidence showing examples of hate and incitement to violence spread by UNRWA teachers and schools.

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against job cuts by UNRWA, in Gaza City September 19, 2018.

Palestinian Authority's textbooks glorify terror, antisemitism

The textbooks used show illustrations and demonstrations that incite violence "to teach" certain subjects.

TEXTBOOKS SAID to be produced by the Palestinian Authority which contain anti-Israel and anti-Western bias are put on display on Capitol Hill by the NGO Palestine Media Watch.

EU states vote to continue funding despite Palestinian antisemitic incitement in textbooks

The package includes €145.35m. for salaries and pensions of PA civil servants, including those who write textbooks.

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is welcomed by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah, June 14, 2022.

EU holds PA funds after reform of antisemitic textbooks fails

The authority uses textbooks that demonstrate "antisemitic narratives and glorification of violence" despite a promise to reform.

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

PA hasn't removed hateful content from textbooks, producing worse content

Despite a roadmap created with the EU to ensure new textbooks would be free of hate, the PA reneged on the promise and produced new hateful educational content.

A Palestinian teacher conducts a class for students in an UNRWA-run school that reopened after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased, at al-Fari'ah refugee camp, in the West Bank April 12, 2021.

This woman revolutionized Israel’s education system - here’s how

Long before COVID, Yaffa Zilbershats was promoting the concept of remote digital learning in order to make higher education accessible to all segments of the population.

 ZILBERSHATS WANTS Israel to become ‘a brain gain country.’

EU study finds incitement in Palestinian textbooks, kept from public

The 200-page report, commissioned by then EU foreign affairs representative Federica Mogherini, examined 156 textbooks and 16 teaching curriculums issued by the PA between 2017-2019.

Palestinian children learn Islamic lessons on summer vacation as COVID-19 restrictions ease in Gaza.

EU funds unapproved Palestinian school in Jordan Valley nature reserve

The school was built in an Area C nature preserve without building permits from the IDF or the Israeli government.

Palestinian school built in the Barak Nature Preserve in Area C of the West Bank.