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In reply to the discussion: Gaza Humanitarian Foundation begins work amid threats from Hamas [View all]Beastly Boy
(13,104 posts)47. Desensitization to injustice and horrible deaths of innocents comes from organized indoctrination of children.
As you ought to know if you spent any time in Hungary in the 1950s and 60s.
Hateful Material: EU Demands Freeze of Palestinian Education Aid Over Antisemitic Textbooks
The European Parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on the European Commission to suspend aid to the Palestinian Authoritys educational system until antisemitic and violent themes are removed from textbooks issued to K-12 students.
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The Palestinian Authority lobbied hard in Brussels against this resolution, but found itself up against the hard reality of its hateful school curriculum and the anger and frustration of European Parliament members with a Palestinian national strategy of inciting schoolchildren to hate and violence on their dime, year after year, CEO Marcus Sheff of Impact-se, which has issued numerous reports on antisemitism and incitement in Palestinian textbooks, said in a press release shared with The Algemeiner. This strategy has murderous consequences. The resolution will also be noted at the European Commission and by Commissioner Varhelyi, who stated last week that EU funds can no longer be used to incite violence against Israel. The resolution marked the fourth year in the row that the EU has demanded immediate changes to Palestinian curriculum, which experts and lawmakers have described as the most antisemitic in the region and a factor protracting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It also followed assurances by European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi, whose office supervises aid to the Palestinian Authority, to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen that the EU will not fund terror groups and programs inciting violence against Israel.
The EU parliament passed a similar measure in December, declaring that PA curriculum is in tension with European values. The previous year, in May 2021, the body froze aid to the Palestinian Authority for 13 months. Aid resumed the following January, with former European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen insisting that all the difficulties are gone. The Palestinian Authority never reformed its educational system, however, according to several reports by Impact-se, which has continued to find, for example, grammar lessons saying The Palestinians sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem and Arabic Drill Cards for 9th graders that say, When the [Muslim] nation is negligent in protecting al-Aqsa, then the Jews will dare to defile it. Israel also does not appear on any maps shown to students.
Other examples of antisemitic material provided to children living in territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority include study cards for eleventh graders accusing Jews of being in control of global events through financial power, assignments instructing seventh graders to describe Israeli soldiers as Satans aides, and a textbook chapter imploring Muslims to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Israeli education watchdog Impact-se.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/05/10/hateful-material-eu-demands-freeze-of-palestinian-education-aid-over-antisemitic-textbooks/
The European Parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on the European Commission to suspend aid to the Palestinian Authoritys educational system until antisemitic and violent themes are removed from textbooks issued to K-12 students.
--snip--
The Palestinian Authority lobbied hard in Brussels against this resolution, but found itself up against the hard reality of its hateful school curriculum and the anger and frustration of European Parliament members with a Palestinian national strategy of inciting schoolchildren to hate and violence on their dime, year after year, CEO Marcus Sheff of Impact-se, which has issued numerous reports on antisemitism and incitement in Palestinian textbooks, said in a press release shared with The Algemeiner. This strategy has murderous consequences. The resolution will also be noted at the European Commission and by Commissioner Varhelyi, who stated last week that EU funds can no longer be used to incite violence against Israel. The resolution marked the fourth year in the row that the EU has demanded immediate changes to Palestinian curriculum, which experts and lawmakers have described as the most antisemitic in the region and a factor protracting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It also followed assurances by European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi, whose office supervises aid to the Palestinian Authority, to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen that the EU will not fund terror groups and programs inciting violence against Israel.
The EU parliament passed a similar measure in December, declaring that PA curriculum is in tension with European values. The previous year, in May 2021, the body froze aid to the Palestinian Authority for 13 months. Aid resumed the following January, with former European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen insisting that all the difficulties are gone. The Palestinian Authority never reformed its educational system, however, according to several reports by Impact-se, which has continued to find, for example, grammar lessons saying The Palestinians sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem and Arabic Drill Cards for 9th graders that say, When the [Muslim] nation is negligent in protecting al-Aqsa, then the Jews will dare to defile it. Israel also does not appear on any maps shown to students.
Other examples of antisemitic material provided to children living in territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority include study cards for eleventh graders accusing Jews of being in control of global events through financial power, assignments instructing seventh graders to describe Israeli soldiers as Satans aides, and a textbook chapter imploring Muslims to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Israeli education watchdog Impact-se.
The feeling of powerlessness comes from the intentionally bogus expectations built up by this pervasive propaganda campaign.
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That's a good one. Israel doesnt provide classified military surveillance footage on demand, ergo no stealing!
Beastly Boy
May 27
#27
Desensitization to injustice and horrible deaths of innocents comes from a feeling of powerlessness.
AloeVera
May 27
#45