…you might want to read Nurit Yohanan’s article for The Times Of Israel, which details the “success” level of getting the palestinian authority (aka fatah) to tone down the hatred in their schoolbooks.
Here’s a taste for you:
Despite promised reforms, PA textbooks still teach antisemitic, anti-Israel messages
Palestinian Authority textbooks continue to glorify terror, demonize Israelis, traffic in antisemitic themes and advance exclusivist nationalist rhetoric despite promises to implement reforms, a comprehensive study of the authority’s teaching materials has found.
The report was released on Wednesday by the Israel- and UK-based IMPACT-SE watchdog, which monitors educational content. It alleges that textbooks from grades 1-4 and 12, meant to be updated recently to comply with international demands to scrub inciting content, in fact contain no significant changes.
Despite assurances earlier this year that books for grades 1–4 and 12 would undergo reform by September, problematic content persists, according to a litany of examples presented in the report.
In 1st-grade Arabic, a reading exercise introduces the word “shaheed,” or martyr, to teach about a letter. In Palestinian society, the word martyr typically refers to someone who is killed in a conflict with Israel.
In 2nd-grade Arabic, a poem is presented to students, reading, “We give our souls for the revolution. We carry the flame of the revolution — to Haifa, to Jaffa, to Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock.”
In a 12th-grade Islamic education book, Jews are presented as manipulators and liars through a traditional Islamic account in which Jewish leaders tried to persuade Muhammad to betray his faith by promising to convert if he ruled unjustly in their favor.
The characters, explicitly labeled “Jews,” are portrayed as immoral and hostile to Islam — with no attempt to contextualize the story in its historical period.
In addition, according to the study, references to Jewish history and Israeli-Arab diplomatic efforts, which appeared in earlier editions, have been removed. Mentions of the Camp David and Annapolis peace processes — as well as any content promoting non-violence or compromise — remain absent in the 2025–2026 textbooks.
In fact, any acknowledgement of Jewish history is absent, with the Holocaust ignored. Likewise, the persecution and expulsion suffered by Jewish communities in Arab countries upon the establishment of Israel is entirely absent.
Please tell me you are not surprised. Let’s not forget that these are also the same nice “moderate” folks who give monetary rewards to the families of suicide bombers.
This is what Israel deals with every day. It would be nice if more people – and more media – reflected on that.
