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Illustrative: Qatari people holding swords to celebrate Qatar National Day, Doha, Qatar, December 09, 2014 (Hussein Ali/iStock by Getty Images)
February 15, 2026, 4:19 pm
Despite Qatar’s moderate image, its textbooks are filled with antisemitism, study finds
Schools in country continue to teach Jew-hatred, portray Christians as infidels and idolators, and legitimize violent jihad, IMPACT-se says
By Zev Stub
Participants including Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou (C) march behind a banner with the words 'Never Again' in Thessaloniki, on March 19, 2023, as they proceed towards the old railway station to mark the departure of the first train deporting Greek Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on March 15, 1943. (AFP stringer/AFP)
December 3, 2025, 7:09 pm
Greek textbooks provide fair education about Israel and Judaism, watchdog finds
IMPACT-se says Greek schoolbooks teach widely and respectfully about the Holocaust, while a problematic passage about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been removed
By Zev Stub
Muslims perform an Eid al-Fitr prayer, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, April, 10, 2024. (Fareed Khan/AP)
August 19, 2025, 3:09 am
Schools in Pakistan promote hostility toward Jews and Israel, report finds
Jews are frequently accused of treachery and Israel is demonized in textbooks, education watchdog IMPACT-se says
By Zev Stub
A French riot policeman stands guard outside the Paris Synagogue, two days after security measures were reinforced near Jewish temples and schools, in central Paris, on October 9, 2023. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
May 27, 2025, 5:15 pm
Watchdog: French textbooks cover Israel, antisemitism, and the Holocaust, but gaps remain
Schoolchildren in France are taught about Jewish history and Zionism, but some areas are underrepresented, according to education watchdog IMPACT-se
By Zev Stub
Illustrative photo of students in Namangan, Uzbekistan. (Wikimedia Commons)
April 8, 2025, 7:53 pm
Schools in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan portray Jews fairly, study shows
Findings on Muslim-majority Central Asian countries more encouraging than previous investigations into European countries
By Zev Stub
Ukrainian refugee children look at the drawings at the Lauder Morasha Jewish school in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
December 18, 2024, 4:29 pm
Polish textbooks continue to teach antisemitic tropes in schools, report finds
Despite negative findings, study says educational content related to the Holocaust and Jewish history has improved since last report in 2016
By Zev Stub
Twelve UNRWA school principals who are members of Hamas's military wing according to the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), in an image published on November 14, 2024. (IMPACT-se)
November 14, 2024, 5:40 pm
Education organization says 5 Gaza schools are run by Hamas men employed by UNRWA
IMPACT-se says refugee agency has ‘deep ties’ to terror groups and has taken no meaningful steps to curb hateful content in curriculum
By Michael Horovitz
File: A woman instructs children on arithmetic multiplication in a classroom at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at the Shati camp for Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, on May 7, 2024. (AFP)
November 11, 2024, 11:21 am
As calls to deradicalize Palestinian textbooks get louder, some urge a broader focus
Since October 7, international pressure has mounted on the PA to remove indoctrination from its curriculum, but expert says true societal shift must go beyond classrooms
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Screenshot from video showing an UNRWA worker next to a white UN jeep, abducting the body of Yonatan Samerano, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot)
August 5, 2024, 11:21 pm
UN says 9 UNRWA employees ‘may have been involved’ in Oct 7 attack, have been fired
Israeli ambassador to UN calls investigation a ‘disgrace,’ alleges that ‘thousands’ of UNRWA employees are ‘involved to various degrees in Hamas’s terror activities’
By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid
Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad in Doha, Qatar, September 13, 2022. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)
July 9, 2024, 7:13 pm
US State Department report finds persistent antisemitism in Qatari textbooks
Annual religious freedom survey says Qatari textbooks continue to include hateful content, contradicting Doha’s efforts to be seen as a moderate Western ally
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Football fans stand beneath a large banner depicting Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (C) and his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) as they attend the World Cup 2022 Asian qualifying match between Palestine and Saudi Arabia in the town of al-Ram in the West Bank on October 15, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP / File)
June 4, 2024, 1:19 am
Saudi Arabia largely removes negative portrayal of Israel from its school curriculum
In marked shift from the past, Saudi textbooks no longer define Zionism as ‘racist,’ indicating progress towards a ‘warm peace’ such as that with the UAE, expert says
By Gianluca Pacchiani
A view of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on April 11, 2024. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP Photo)
April 17, 2024, 1:49 pm
European Parliament condemns incitement in Palestinian, UNRWA textbooks
EU legislature acknowledges link between October 7 atrocities and hateful content in educational materials used in Gaza, West Bank
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Students sit in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at the United Nations-run Elementary School at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, August 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
March 26, 2024, 3:47 pm
UNRWA textbooks were pivotal in radicalizing generations of Gazans — watchdog
Education-monitoring group says UN agency allowed incitement to be taught in its schools, and argues that staff who took part in October 7 attack were not isolated ‘bad apples’
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) agency talk together in the playground of an UNRWA-run school that has been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 25, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
December 13, 2023, 2:46 pm
Swiss parliament votes to cut funding for UNRWA amid incitement allegations
Watchdog says educational system of agency for Palestinian refugees ‘taught hate every day’ to those who took part in October 7 massacres
By ToI Staff
At the Fadwa Touqan Mixed Elementary School in Nablus, students draw pictures of Hamas terrorists on gliders, glorifying the terrorists who paraglided into Israel on October 7, in Nablus, October 15, 2023. (Facebook screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 23, 2023, 11:56 pm
Watchdog: Schools run by PA celebrated Oct. 7 Hamas massacres
Report reveals school in Jenin closed after onslaught to honor ‘martyrs’ and decry ‘Nazi occupation’; students at a Nablus school drew infamous Hamas paragliders
By ToI Staff
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