Palestinian Authority Still Teaching Kids to Hate Israel
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Gaza children buying toy weapons, August 16, 2012.
Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90
As the school year opens across the world, Gaza will have a new course taught in some of its schools, called Know Your Enemy. The class is a Hebrew course which Hamas officials decided to include back in March as part of the Gaza education curriculum this year.
According to a New York Times article in May, the director general of Hamas’s Ministry of Education, Mahmoud Matar, stated that “through the Hebrew language we can understand the structure of Israeli society, the way they think.”
It will be the first time the Hebrew language will be taught in Gaza schools in almost 20 years. If successful, Hamas will have all 180 schools in Gaza teach the Hebrew language in the future.
“We look at Israel as an enemy. We teach our students the language of the enemy,” said Matar in the Times article.
According to Dr. Eldad Pardo, a senior researcher at IMPACT-SE, (Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education) and a teacher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Matar’s hateful language against Israel is characteristic of the themes taught in Palestinian Authority school textbooks.
“Palestinian schoolchildren learn that Jews have no connection to the land of Israel, that Jews belong to Europe. These textbooks say nothing about the Jews from Arab countries,” Pardo told the Tazpit News Agency.
“Jewish holy places in Israel are not recognized. They are presented as Muslim holy sites taken over by Jews. There is no recognition of Jewish people as a nation. Israelis are depicted as criminals and thieves,” Pardo added.
“The fundamentals regarding Israel are the same, both in the secular PA textbooks and religious textbooks, although the religious textbooks take a significantly harder, more anti-Semitic line, glorifying martyrdom and jihad,” said Pardo.
IMPACT-SE conducted a study of 70 Palestinian Authority student books and 22 teacher guides, along with 25 student books issued by the PA Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs last year. All 118 books and guides are in current use at PA schools.
Pardo did emphasize that there were improvements in the secular government textbooks. “There are positive themes like equal rights for women, passages against terror and violence within society, more education for democracy, and the like.”
“But the bottom line is that these textbooks do not promote peace with Israel. There is not one map where Tel Aviv appears in a Palestinian textbook,” said Pardo.
Israel’s approach to the conflict is very different according to Pardo. “In the Israeli education system, there is much respect for Arab culture, recognition that Palestinians have a national movement and respect for holy Muslim sites. Students also learn Arabic in schools.”
In Israel, Arabic studies are compulsory from the seventh to ninth grade, while some schools continue to teach the language until the end of high school or begin in the fifth grade onwards. Arabic is Israel’s second official language. The former head of Arabic studies in Israel’s Ministry of Education, Dr. Shlomo Alon, stated to Israel’s Walla news site two years ago that “studying Arabic will promote tolerance and convey a message of acceptance.”
“The difference is that Israel sees itself as part of the Middle East region and wants to fit in, while the Arab world does not accept the Jewish state. This does not mean that there is no dialogue between Jewish and Arab students in Israel because there are many education programs bringing these students together—but that’s not what the PA wants Palestinian students learning from their textbooks,” concluded Pardo.
tell a friendAbout the Author: Anav Silverman is a regular contributor to Tazpit News Agency.
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Muslim village clerics hold far more sway over the DDD(Different, Damaged and Damaging sub-species)muslim population than any country’s government officials. They
daily and five times a day lead in non-muslim hate lectures and give guidance.
on many aspects of how to be an evil and semi-insane human all this life.
Five times a day! Everyday! Women are not people in this cult…they are.
things for breeding only. Islam sanctions pedophilia…..and it’s all in Arabic…..text.
and instructions and global arab money……evil is cunning….a Guidance to.
insanity. You just got to read a proper and literal translation of the sadistic.
and insane Koran to f ing just know what these total idiots are up to in large.
numbers. Five times a day! TOCK tock tock tock tocking their brains inside their foreheads on the hard stone floor.
Muslims are cartoons and they don’t even know it!
Every f ing day! TOCK tock tock tock tocking their brains inside their foreheads on the hard stone floor. We’re screwed. Islam is coming…and their foreheads are going to knock down our doors.
Soon islam will.
take over the world and all our science and technology will be by-passed and.
discarded and as a species humans will again live like it was in Saudi Arabia in.
the times of moremad.The arabs will be the rulers and the whole world will.
forever be mad.
Everybody will be muslim and women will be perpetually.
thrashed and trashed and uneducated.Black people will only be slaves. The population of.
the blacks will slowly come to an end because as more and more black people.
will be slaved this time forever and castrated. No free thought will be allowed and there will be.
a non-stop stunting of the human mind. All education and forward thought will.
come to a stop and soon all tech will be passed and humans will once again use.
animals for locomotion. Within 4 generations of only islam all history will be.
wiped out and most animals will be slaughtered to extinction. Only Arabic will.
be spoken and fear and brainless thoughts will be encouraged and wide-spread.
This will continue for at least 5000 years. As medical science will fall apart and.
viruses will attack the muslims unchecked. Islam will die from small pox or.
something even more lethal. Only after islam is wiped out by a virus and by.
then all humans will be as smart as monkeys are today will another civilisation.
rise from the annihilation of our current human race. Humans are doomed as of.
today. islam will rise and savagery will be the order of the day. Only from
the ashes of islam 20,000 years into the future will new-man again rise as man,
that will take another 20,000 years and another language besides Arabic will.
evolve.
Today’s modern
and rational man is tomorrow’s mayan…..soon to be slaughtered by islam and hearing hardcore gutteral-arabic cries of allah -oh-aahhkkkbaaaarrrr……allah-oh-akhhbaarr isn’t english…..it seems…
As the great Edward Grey once.
said, “The lights are going out… we shall not see them lit again in our time”.
Forget walking on the moon and mars…i have a feeling our retarded future muslim offsprings will be camel-racing…..in arabic…. We are pushing our future generations into the saudi-arabia gutter just because it was impolite to tell the arabs fk-you and fk-off with a few big choice big bangs….about 20 of them…no less. Not very smart for our future generations… they won’t even be able to read this because it’s not in Arabic. Saving history is silly at this point…islam will bulldoze and obliterate the full planet’s heritage that islam did not create. Megalomania…. insane. Moremad would have voted the bulldozer as the greatest invention ever. Islam will obliterate the pyramids….hundred percent! have absolutely no doubt about this! It’ll be tough but islam will obliterate the pyramids…. will take time but they will vanish……islam is mad with paranoia. Shhhh….
Moremad was a mad man and you can’t say it so don’t even think it. Got it?
Western science flies you to the moon. Islam flies you into buildings!
The main theme of the koran is only sadistic fury and hatred against NON-MUSLIMS like we and our children, expressed in the most sadistic language ever placed between the covers of a single book. Only people who have not lived next to islam think islam is fine. People all over the globe are actually constantly moving away from islam since the last 1400 years. islam is a sadistic cult that is alive today because of pure luck. If buddhists take up arms against something it means that it must really be evil. Afganistan was a buddhist country till islam came and finished it with it’s gutter slime. Afganistan’s fate under islam is exactly what will happen to India and Nepal and The UK and The USA and Europe. Slowly but surely. Islam will win and the planet will lose. Where ever muslims show up with their sadistic, dirty and very creepy morals the whole society collapses.
Do muslims even know the ultimate truth that “Until The Last Koran Has Been Burnt And The Last Emir Is Hanged By The Entrails Of The Last Imam……There Will Be No Peace On Earth”.
Shalom Boged. David. I noticed that you ignored the allegation herein set forth. Could that be because your position would have been wholly untenable?
no u teach them to hate all the Arabs its written in telmud all Arabds should dead , I have posted many links about how je teach their kids to hating arabs.
whu all your discussions are only about Arabs , islem? iwould like to know it really.