Schools being operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency are teaching Palestinian children as young as 6 to hate, kill and martyr themselves, according to a recently-completed study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.
The study reproduces fifteen examples taken directly from Palestinian school textbooks currently used in UNRWA schools in which hatred and violence are extolled as virtues.
First graders learn grammar by reference to the concepts of martyrdom and physical conflict.
Third graders recite a poem calling for “sacrificing blood” to remove the enemy from the land by “eliminating the usurper” and to “annihilate the remnants of the foreigners.”
Fourth graders are taught arithmetic by counting the number of “martyrs” in Palestinian uprisings.
Fifth graders studying Arabic are taught to glorify and emulate terrorists as role models, including Dalal Mughrabi, who participated in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre, which killed 38 Israelis including 13 children. Terrorist attacks, such as the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games, are justified as a legitimate tool of “Palestinian resistance”.
‘Arabic Language’ text for fifth graders which extols convicted child-murderer Dalal al-Mughrabi: “Her struggle portrays challenge and heroism, making her memory immortal in our hearts and minds.”
The curriculum is openly anti-Semitic, teaching children that the Jews control the world and are corrupt. In Islamic Studies in fifth grade, children are taught an antisemitic myth that “the Jews” attempted to kill the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. This is largely rejected in mainstream Islam and it doesn’t appear in the Quran. The textbook refers to Jews generically as “enemies of Islam.”
Read the article by Peter Wertheim (ECAJ) in The Spectator.