What Everyone Should Know About Palestinian (and Israeli) School Books

“Most of maps in the Palestinian school books show the boundaries of Palestinian authority limited to West Bank and Gaza strip according to UN resolutions 242 and 338. Maps in Israeli school books do not show the green line and talk about the Palestinian Occupied Territories of 1967 as Judea and Samaria and as part of Erez Israel (Promised Land) with complete denial of Palestinian existence as people and as a country.”

Sami Adwan: What Hillary Clinton Should Know About Palestinian School Books

Because the myth of Palestinian school texts fits so neatly into the party line about deep seeded hatred amongst the Palestinians (always phrased as being directed towards Israelis and not the Israeli occupation) it is often difficult to have any sort of serious discussion when this topic comes up.

This article gets right to the facts about school text books in the Palestinian Territories but doesn’t stop there, looking at Israeli textbooks and their views of Palestinians and the occupation.

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