Video Of The Week - Incitement in Palestinian Curriculum - https://tinyurl.com/y6lg2qph
by Louise Ellman from JNEWS - MAR 20, 2019,
For the full article go to - https://tinyurl.com/y46k8gl6
I am a strong supporter of Britain’s
international aid budget and for the money which the UK gives to the
Palestinian Authority being used to promote a two-state solution.
Our government is currently giving millions of
pounds each year to Palestinian schools which are teaching a curriculum which
incites hatred, glorifies violence and promotes terror; nothing could do more
to harm the cause for peace than fostering old hatreds and prejudices in
another generation of children and young people.
This has to stop,
that is why I have published my International Development Assistance (Values
Promoted in Palestinian Authority Schools) bill this week.
My LFI colleagues and I warned the government
in September 2017 about the pernicious content of the new curriculum which the
PA was about to introduce in its schools. As the Institute for Monitoring Peace
and Cultural Tolerance in School Education has suggested, this curriculum is
“more radical than ever, purposefully and strategically encouraging Palestinian
children to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom”.
Some of the content is truly horrifying.
Five-year-olds are taught the word for “martyr” as part of their first lessons
in Arabic; 11-year-olds taught that martyrdom and jihad are “the most important
meanings of life”; and teenagers taught those who sacrifice themselves will be
rewarded with “72 virgin brides in paradise”.
The massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympics is endorsed as “the Munich Operation” and cited as a good
example of “Palestinian Resistance” against “Zionist interests abroad”.
These lessons in hate are all-pervasive and
infest every aspect of the curriculum, while vile anti-Semitic tropes — that
Jews sexually harass Muslim women and that they attempted to kill the Prophet
Mohammed – are also promoted.
There is no suggestion that peace with Israel
is desirable or possible and references to previous peace agreements, summits
and proposals, which were present in schoolbooks, have been expunged. In their
place, are lies about the Al-Aqsa mosque being under threat and calls to
“eliminate the usurper” — by conquering Haifa and Jaffa.
These lessons in hatred are being funded
through the Department for International Development’s aid to the PA education
budget.
The government first ignored warnings, then
promised reviews which never materialised, and then attempted to kick the issue
into the long grass by commissioning an international study of the PA’s
schoolbooks, despite IMPACT-se already having undertaken an extensive and
thoroughly researched investigation.
Last week, the government said it had
commissioned a scoping exercise for its review – some 11 months after that
review was first announced.
Ministers have rejected LFI’s repeated calls
that all aid which directly or indirectly finances those teaching and
implementing this curriculum be suspended until fundamental changes are made.
Instead, UK aid should be directed towards a new Palestinian Peace Fund
supporting young people.
The upshot of this scandalous inaction is that
by September, this appalling curriculum will have been taught in Palestinian
schools for a third year running.
The PA has taken an utterly uncompromising
stance. In September ministers said the PA had “taken action to help address
concerns raised”. But this is simply untrue; there were no major changes in the
current school year, and in January the PA Minister of Education made clear his
rejection of what he called an “attack” on the curriculum led by the “Zionist
lobby”.
It’s now time to
take action. My bill requires two things. First, that teaching programmes in
Palestinian Authority schools financed by the UK should promote common values
such as peace, freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination.
Second, that ministers should conduct and
publish an annual review to ensure that UK funds are spent in line with
UNESCO-derived standards of peace and tolerance in education.
British aid should support the goal — shared by
MPs across the House of Commons — of a two-state solution.
It cannot and must not make that goal harder to
achieve.
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