- An eleventh-grade Palestinian history textbook implies that Jews control the world, using imagery of an arm with a Star of David holding a globe
- Grade 10 students are taught that Jews control money, the media, and politics and use them for their own benefit
- Jews are characterized in a Grade 5 textbook as sinful liars and fraudsters for turning their backs on the Prophet in early Islam
Rejection of Peace and the Two State Solution
- All peace agreements, summits and proposals with Israel post-1993 Oslo Accords - previously included in PA textbooks - have been completely removed from the curriculum.
- Peace advocacy as a universal ideal appearing in a 2018 social studies fifth grade textbook was deleted from the 2019 edition and not reintroduced for 2020.
- The peace treaty with Jordan is absent after appearing in pre-2016 editions of a Grade 12 textbook.
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Encouragement of Martyrdom and Jihad
- A fifth grade textbook chapter glorifying Palestinian martyrs describes dying as better than living
- A tenth grade textbook presents Jihad "for the liberation of Palestine" as a "private obligation for every Muslim"
Absence of Israel on Maps
- Out of more than two hundred maps across the PA textbook curriculum- not one mentions the name "Israel".
- Most maps illustrating Palestine's current borders show the word "Palestine" written across the entire territory - without demarcation lines - entirely disregarding Israel's existence.
- Palestine's territory is mostly described as from the "river to the sea"
Jerusalem
- Third-graders learn that Jerusalem is an Arab city holy to Muslims and Christians alone - without learning about its historical connection to Jews or Judaism
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Any peaceful resolution of the 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict seems further away than ever whilst PA textbooks inciting Jewish-Israeli hatred continue to poison young peoples' minds.
Author’s note: The cartoon — commissioned exclusively for this article — is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators — whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.