Palestinian Education

Palestinian Authority schools praise martydom, use October 7 attack in math lessons

Beyond reducing October 7 to a math exercise, the nine-year-olds were also praised by their teacher in written feedback for writing questions relating to martyrdom, including child martyrdom.

A child's drawing shown here says: "In Gaza City at least 150 children die as Martyrs [daily]. How many child Martyrs are there in nine days?"
A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City.

Indoctrinating innocents: From the Khmer Rouge to Hamas, the art of child indoctrination

Grade 5 Arabic Language textbook exalting terrorist Dalal Mughrabi.

Antisemitism remains central feature in Palestinian education curriculum, IMPACT-se finds

Palestinian students

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


Palestinian textbooks feature misogyny funded by Europe, report finds

Palestinian Authority textbooks scrutinized: Gender biases, glorification of violence, and troubling narratives revealed.

 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.

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

"The people who wrote the Hamas charter are a group of lunatics," stated Mosab Hassan Yousef in the interview.

 Mosab Hassan Yousef visit to locations of the October 7 massacre

'No peace in the shadow of radicalization'

EU's Israel Allies Caucus to hold conference on radicalization in Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Palestinian kids display their textbooks

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