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US State Department blasts Qatar for antisemitism in textbooks, citing IMPACT-se

Host nation of Hamas leadership teaches students antisemitic tropes and rejects normalization – despite Qatari leaders’ recurring encounters with Israeli officials

 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the U.S.-Arab Quint Meeting with representatives from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Authority, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 29, 2024.
Shi’ite fighters pose with a black flag belonging to the Islamic State.

Iraqi school textbooks scrutinized over antisemitism, Shi’ization

 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

 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.

UNRWA school celebrates Hamas's 'jihad warriors' in Gaza - report


Education monitor: Hamas terrorists were educated with radicalizing textbooks

IMPACT-SE has been monitoring textbook materials for years, and alleges that the curricula in UNRWA schools fail to challenge a culture of violence and antisemitism.

 Biography of Hassan Suleiman Qatnani, a Hamas terrorist responsible for the murder of two Israeli women on October 7, and a graduate of an UNRWA school in Gaza.

Germany allocates €28 million to UNRWA

One of the agreements, which alone allocates 12 million Euros to UNRWA, is earmarked for the continuation of a program that aims to digitalize elements of UNRWA’s Health and Education services.

 UNRWA employees take part in a sit-in demonstration, according to them against anticipated austerity measures within the organisation, in Amman, Jordan November 8, 2021.

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.

EU Parliament ‘deplores’ Palestinian textbook incitement - new resolution

This year’s resolution emphasized the need to remove antisemitic references and examples more than past versions.

Workers adjust a European flag outside the EU Parliament ahead of the EU elections in Brussels

Those funding antisemitic Palestinian textbooks must be held accountable - editorial

The rising violence in the West Bank demonstrates that those foreign bodies that fund Palestinian textbooks must demand accountability.

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.

Iranian students are also protesting against oppressive educations -opinion

Iranian students are taught that the world is divided between followers of Iran’s global revolution and those infidels who oppose it.

 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.

Bill that prevents US funds going to antisemitic Gazan textbooks passes cmte. vote

House Committee approves Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act; next step is a vote on the House floor

 Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) questions witnesses during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing.

6 east Jerusalem schools placed on conditional licenses due to textbook incitement

Textbooks at the schools glorified Palestinian prisoners and made claims of killings, deportations and massacres by the IDF.

 Palestinian schoolchildren stand in a line at a school run by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem October 10, 2018

Qatari textbooks making slow progress on removing antisemitism - IMPACT-se

IMPACT-se noted that Qatari textbooks have shown slow but steady improvement by promoting more moderate messaging and adding lessons about tolerance and racism.

General overall view of the Doha downtown city center skyline and cityscape and the Doha Bay, Doha, Qatar, Sep 26, 2019.

A look at what Palestinian Authority schools teach about Jews, Israel

The three fundamentals are delegitimizing Israel's existence and the presence of Jews, demonizing Israel and Jews, and inciting against Israel and Jews.

 ‘Map of Palestine’ used in PA and UNRWA education: Only Arab communities are delineated.

Qatar removes some antisemitic, violent material from school textbooks - report

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education praised the removal of inflammatory material promoting violence and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The Qatari flag is seen at a park near Doha Corniche, in Doha