new report from CMIP

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Fri Nov 30, 2001 at 2:03 pm PST • Views: 164

This article at Israel Insider covers the latest report from the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, on the new Palestinian textbooks and school curricula introduced this year.

Examples of the findings include:

Peace - The concept of peace with Israel is not to be found anywhere in the Palestinian schoolbooks. The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, based on the Oslo Accords, is not mentioned. The books fail to teach the youth to see Israel as a neighbor with whom peaceful relations should be desired.

Tolerance - Palestinian textbooks do encourage tolerance, both in a historical and a contemporary context, using in their examples references to tolerance between Moslems and Christians. The Jews are not mentioned.

Jewish connection to the land - The Jewish connection to the Holy Land is confined to antiquity. The Jews’ return to Palestine is described as “infiltration”. Zionism is mentioned in a negative context only.

Israel - The State of Israel is not recognized in Palestinian schoolbooks. It is referred to by substitute names such as the lands within the “green line”, “interior” or “1948 lands.” Arab citizens of Israel are referred to as “the Palestinians of the interior.”

Maps - The maps appearing in the textbooks continue to disregard the existence of the State of Israel. In most cases no names are given at all. Palestine stretches from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and is exclusively Arab.

Jews - There is no information providing pupils with at least a basic knowledge of Jews and Judaism, as one of the three monotheistic religions. Several books list negative generalizations attributing traits of trickery, greed and barbarity to the Jews, and insinuation that they do not keep agreements and treaties as Muslims do.

Update: here is the complete report.

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