This is despite the fact that the EU has poured hundreds of millions of euros into the Palestinian educational sector and demanded an end to incitement and antisemitism in PA textbooks. The PA has at times claimed that they adhere to the required standards but at the same time rejected any conditions on aid, claiming that these were lessons to increase nationalist feeling.
A math lesson asks to calculate the chances that Palestinians would be shot by Jewish settlers shooting at them on the roads - something that Palestinians routinely do towards Jews.
Rather than describe any desire for peace with Israel, the textbooks emphasize that the Zionists are fated to disappear.
Lessons say matter of factly that "Zionists" control the US, money and the media.
Second graders are taught to "give their lives to the Revolution."
An 11th grade textbook says the nature of the Children of Israel is to spread corruption on Earth.
Another says that the idea that Jews are a people is a "false claim," as is the claim that Jews have suffered antisemitism in their relations with non-Jews.
Textbooks list out Islamic and Christian religious sites in "Palestine" but do not admit a single Jewish example.
Jews are blamed to trying to falsify the Quran and, failing that, for creating false hadiths (Islamic oral traditions.).
Antisemitic conspiracy theories are sprinkled throughout. Israelis are said to deliberately release wild pigs to destroy Palestinian crops, to be digging tunnels under Al Aqsa Mosque to make it collapse, to steal Palestinian archaeological relics to erase their history. The Western Wall is presented as a fabrication meant to erase Jerusalem's Islamic heritage. One very ironic example is a conspiracy by Israel to sabotage Palestinian education to keep them ignorant.
Teachers' guides are often even more antisemitic than the textbooks themselves, perhaps because of minimal EU pressure on the textbooks alone. Teachers are instructed to tie "Zionist massacres" to "Jewish religious thought." They are told to teach about "Jews' greedy ambitions" and that the "Jews" have "incessantly perpetrated war crimes."
These are the official textbooks used by UNRWA.
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