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Greek textbooks discuss Judaism, Holocaust in detail, but fall short on antisemitism

Greek textbooks give limited attention to local Jewish history and contributions to Greek society. Even though they include Jewish history and misfortunes, the books leave antisemitism behind.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A slogan reading "Outside the Jewish Snakes" is written outside a Jewish synagoue in the central Greek town of Trikala, some 300 kilometers north of Athens, on December 31, 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the U.S.-Arab Quint Meeting with representatives from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Authority, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 29, 2024.

US State Department blasts Qatar for antisemitism in textbooks, citing IMPACT-se

Host nation of Hamas leadership teaches students antisemitic tropes and rejects normalization – despite Qatari leaders’ recurring encounters with Israeli officials

|ByOHAD MERLIN
Shi’ite fighters pose with a black flag belonging to the Islamic State.

Iraqi school textbooks scrutinized over antisemitism, Shi’ization

Report by research institute Impact-SE highlights worrying trends in the former home of the longest-standing Jewish diaspora.

|ByOHAD MERLIN
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

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

|ByOHAD MERLIN

UK school textbook asks how creation of Israel was cause of 9/11 attacks

Publisher acknowledges problem, withdraws book from sale

FEBRUARY 20, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
A GROUP of junior high school students are demanding the government fulfill its educational duty to them.

Palestinian, Saudi Arabian textbooks demonize Jews, Israel – studies

Two reports highlight how extremism and anti-Jewish hatred is taught to youth in the Middle East; Saudis show improvement since last report.

FEBRUARY 12, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Palestinian boy Zain Idrees attends a lesson inside a classroom in a school, in Hebron, in the West Bank April 25, 2019

Jerusalem deputy mayor to UK: Don't fund anti-Israel Palestinian textbooks

UNRWA schools’ curriculum, designed by the Palestinian Authority, “perpetuates incitement, antisemitism and glorification of martyrdom,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum said.

JANUARY 14, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

Norwegian parliament tells government to cut funding to PA over textbooks

Ruling coalition in Norwegian parliament angered over references to violence, martyrdom and terror found in Palestinian Authority school textbooks.

DECEMBER 6, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Norwegian flags flutter at Karl Johans street in Oslo, Norway May 31, 2017.

Back to school: What we teach our children

Both Israel and Palestine are guilty of the crime of omission. We teach almost nothing about the other people living on this land.

AUGUST 22, 2019ByGERSHON BASKIN
‘BOTH ISRAEL and Palestine are guilty of the crime of omission. We teach almost nothing about the other people living on this land.’

Confronting UNRWA education antisemitism at the UN

UNRWA never questions whether PA schoolbooks should be used by a UN agency that must adhere to the core principles of the United Nations.

AUGUST 22, 2019ByARNON GROISS, DAVID BEDEIN
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl attends a news conference at the end of a summit, to address Palestinian UNWRA funding crisis, at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy March 15, 2018.