Palestinian Education

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

A former Khmer Rouge child soldier speaks to the Magazine about his time in the Cambodian communist organization, and how many Palestinian groups use similar methods of indoctrination.

A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City.
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 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


UK MPs demand answers on botched inquiry into Palestinian education

Translation errors include a well-known Palestinian phrase for rock-throwers, “the Children of the Stones,” being mistranslated as “children stones,” with no indication as to what this might mean.

A Palestinian girl looks out of a classroom window as she attends a lesson on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip

Comprehensive report reveals endemic hate education in Palestinian schools

Palestinian children are being primed for "a continuous and long-range confrontation against the State of Israel," the report found.

Palestinian children wearing Hamas headbands take part in a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Gaza Strip

PA announces change in school curricula after pressure European Parliament

A number of national governments have condemned the inclusion of incitement to violence and antisemitic materials in school textbooks used in Palestinian schools.

A Palestinian girl looks out of a classroom window as she attends a lesson on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip

MEPs push EU to reconsider funding to terror-linked Palestinian NGOs

Parliamentarians "insisted that the Commission should thoroughly verify the use of Union funds by third party entities to ensure no funds are allocated to any cause or form of terrorism."

MEMBERS OF the European Parliament meet in Strasbourg.

15 policy challenges for the new head of UNRWA

The appointment of Swiss diplomat Phillipe Lazzarini as the new head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is a window of opportunity for donor nations, which oversee UNRWA policy.

An UNRWA-run school in Rafah, Gaza

In health crisis, virtual world saves Palestinian education, business

With coronavirus lockdown, public, private sectors turn to remote communication

Palestinian women work in a sanitiser factory amid precautions against the coronavirus, in Hebron in the West Bank March 12, 2020

Government funded Arab school holds Heritage Day that wipes Israel off map

The Christian El Oscopia in Shfar'am encouraged students to paint a Palestinian flag over the whole of Israel, denying the existence of the Jewish state.

Heritage Day for the Palestinian People celebrated in El Oskopia High School places Palestine on the map instead of Israel, March 2020

Qatar donates further $20.7 million to Palestinians in Syria

The donation brings this year's total up to $40 million, to be spent on education and health services.

A Palestinian refugee gestures as he takes part in a rally against Bahrain's economic workshop for U.S. Mideast peace plan, at Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, Syria June 25, 2019.

Palestinian teen suicide bomber honored with plaque at Bethlehem school

Ayyat al-Akras was just 17 when she blew herself up in Jerusalem, killing two and injuring 28, near a supermarket in Jerusalem on March 29, 2002.

Investigators surround the body of a suicide bomber following an explosion near the Sbarro pizzeria on the junction of Jaffa Road and King George Street in Jerusalem

Norwegian lawmakers want Palestinian aid frozen over incitement

If implemented, it would spell the loss of $24 million in funding for the Palestinian Authority.

Palestinian kids display their textbooks