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A Palestinian textbook depicting a soldier holding a Palestinian flag and a gun, as part of a lesson on the use of hands. (courtesy)
November 19, 2025, 8:00 pm
Despite promised reforms, PA textbooks still teach antisemitic, anti-Israel messages
First comprehensive review in four years finds no meaningful curriculum reform in textbooks for grades 1-4 and 12, which were due to be updated this year
By Nurit Yohanan
A teacher in Al-Nasr Elementary School in Gaza City stands next to a chalkboard with text that reads, "You are the Toufan" (the flood), a reference to the al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas's name for the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, February 23, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
March 27, 2025, 4:21 pm
As Gazans return to school, study finds their PA textbooks still rife with incitement
Despite pledge by Ramallah to revise curriculum, materials provided to Gazans continue to glorify martyrdom, feature antisemitic rhetoric in subjects from history to math, watchdog says
By Nurit Yohanan
Screenshot from a video uploaded to social media showing students at the Anata High School for boys in East Jerusalem in a play that includes students dressed up as gunmen "shooting" students dressed up as religious Jews, July 20, 2022. (Twitter)
July 20, 2022, 11:09 am
Video shows Palestinian students ‘executing’ Jews in East Jerusalem school play
Far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir claims it constitutes direct incitement against him; Education Ministry says school under responsibility of Palestinian Authority
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. Palestinian students seen on their first day of the new school year in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 25, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90/File)
April 27, 2022, 1:31 pm
PA holds event for high schoolers urging support for convicted terrorists
Teenagers raise posters of jailed Palestinian terrorists who plotted Second Intifada attacks alongside local PA officials
By ToI Staff
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)
From the WebFebruary 14, 2021, 1:07 pm
UK funding backing hate-filled material taught in Palestinian classrooms
Jewish News investigation lifts the lid on how £105 million of British taxpayers’ money has gone toward incitement in Palestinian schools since 2016
Children play in front of the West Bank school of Ras al-Tin, which has been threatened with demolition by the Civil Administration, on October 15, 2020 (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)
November 14, 2020, 8:23 am
Two months after opening, Palestinian school threatened with demolition
While Israel’s Civil Administration says the EU-funded school is illegal, Ras al-Tin residents say they have no choice, as only 1.6% of Palestinian construction is approved
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh visits an elementary school in Ramallah, on September 6, 2020. (WAFA)
September 6, 2020, 11:52 pm
Palestinian school year opens amid worsening pandemic in West Bank
Number of cases continues to climb, but PA premier Shtayyeh tells concerned parents that school might be ‘safer than home’
By Aaron Boxerman
An online-learning Arabic language lesson uploaded on February 28, 2020, by a teacher at a PA-funded school in Hebron, which glorifies the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre. (Screen capture/YouTube)
April 26, 2020, 5:10 pm
Palestinian teacher posts lesson hailing terrorist in 1978 attack that killed 38
Hebron school shares video glorifying Dalal Mughrabi on its Facebook page, encouraging students to watch it as part of their online curriculum at home amid pandemic
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An image said to be from a Palestinian school textbook covering physics which shows a Palestinian boy shooting a slingshot at Israeli soldiers. The caption, according to the Daily Mail, reads: 'What is the relationship between the elongation of the slingshot's rubber and the tensile strength affecting it? What are the forces that influence the stone after its release from the slingshot?' (Courtesy IMPACT-se)
February 22, 2020, 6:40 pm
Count the martyrs: UK to review funds for Palestinian schools whose books incite
London says it’ll look at tens of millions given to UN refugee agency; one physics book discusses use of slingshots against IDF soldiers, others praise terrorists
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Palestinian leaders at the Muqata, the PA headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 20, 2019. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
May 12, 2019, 10:40 am
Palestinians criticize new booklet praising Abbas handed out in PA schools
West Bank education ministry says project aims to ‘strengthen’ national identity, but social media users, academics blast initiative as ‘cult of personality’
By ToI Staff
Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, veteran of several hijacking attempts, is pictured in 1970. (AP Photo)
April 1, 2019, 4:20 am
From Gaza classrooms to the DNC, Palestinian female terrorists are all the rage
Two-time PFLP hijacker Leila Khaled isn’t just lionized in the Arab world — she’s regularly invited to speak in Europe. Now the American hard left is picking up her ideology
By Emily Benedek
Pupils gather in front of a school run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA in Gaza City on August 29, 2018, on the first day of classes after the summer holidays. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
October 8, 2018, 2:56 pm
The path to peace begins in the classroom
UNRWA indoctrinates Palestinian kids into the culture of hate that calls a terror attack against Israelis a ‘barbecue party’
By Deborah Singer Soffen and Joan Lurie Goldberg
Illustrative: Palestinian children use laptops at the Ziad Abu Ein School in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 8, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
September 20, 2018, 11:06 am
Palestinian schools strive to modernize classrooms
Palestinian educators hope to use technology and arts to encourage critical thinking and creativity, over the more traditional methods of memorization and obedience
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
In this August 2, 2018 photo, Tamara Awaisa, 17, left, Wassan al-Sayed,17, center and Massa Halawa,16, right, pose for a photo with their mentor Yamama Shakaa in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
August 5, 2018, 10:17 am
Palestinian teens reach finals of Silicon Valley app competition
Team selected out of 19,000 girls worldwide to pitch fire prevention virtual reality game; high-schoolers ‘excited to travel in a plane for the first time in our lives’
By Agencies
Illustrative: Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon teaches reporters how to stab a Jew, with a teaching aid commonly found in Palestinian schools. (Loey Felipe)
July 6, 2018, 9:50 pm
Britain to lead review of incitement in Palestinian textbooks
According to an Israeli watchdog, last year the British government gave £20 million to Palestinian schools teaching a curriculum that embraces jihad
By JTA and ToI Staff
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