Does Israel Teach Anti-Arab Bigotry?

[SecularMotion]

Over the last ten years, there have been periodic outbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli-based organization called the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (aka, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education).

However, the Center’s conclusions have been corroborated only by other Israeli institutions such as Palestinian Media Watch. And, not surprisingly, almost all independent investigations examining the same issue have come up with very different conclusions.

These non-Zionist sources include The Nation magazine, which published a report on Palestinian textbooks in 2001; the George Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, reporting in 2002; the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, reporting in 2004; and the U.S. State Department Report of 2009. They all found that Palestinian textbooks did not preach anti-Semitism.

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/08/13/does-israel-teach-anti-arab-bigotry/

[shaayecanaan]

1. This is a great article and well worth a read...

A pity that Hillary Clinton doesn't take advice from her own department, given that the Department of State has found in several studies that Palestinian textbooks do not preach anti-Semitism. Then again, it is very rare that politicians take advice from their departments these days, they prefer to take it from lobbyists instead.