PA education: A recipe for hate and terror (a comprehensive report)

Palestinian Media Watch has prepared a comprehensive report on Palestinian Authority education. It includes chapters on names of schools (dozens named after terrorists), school activities (e.g., visiting homes of terrorists), statements and activities of educators (e.g., presenting murderers as role models and promising a world without Israel), schoolbooks, informal education (children reciting poems on kids' TV programs: e.g., Jews are monkeys and pigs; Tel Aviv is "occupied Palestine"), and a chapter with examples of honoring Hitler.
The report was prepared for and will be presented today at the 7^th World Congress of Education International (EI), the international organization of teachers' unions, which is meeting this week in Ottawa, Canada. PMW was invited by the Association of Secondary School Teachers in Israel, after the association was notified that the congress, which brings together nearly 2,000 teachers and educators from all over the world, is planning to vote on several anti-Israel resolutions that include calls for boycott of Israel and support for BDS.
 
PMW has prepared this report documenting that hate, Antisemitism and honoring of murderers are fundamental elements of PA education, and showing the PA's central role in undermining peace. When then Sen. Hillary Clinton joined PMW to release PMW's report on PA schoolbooks in 2007, she said the PA education "profoundly poisons the minds of these children" and called some aspects of PA messaging "child abuse." This report documents that nothing has changed since then. The PA continues to poison the minds of its children.
 
This special report, entitled "Palestinian Authority Education: A Recipe for Hate and Terror," illuminates one of the greatest obstacles to peace today and reveals why there won't be peace in the next generation unless this PA education process is immediately reversed.






Introduction
 
Peace begins with education. Palestinian Media Watch has researched the Palestinian Authority's education to determine to what extent peace is promoted by the structures the PA controls and/or funds. This report reviews the names of Palestinian schools, school activities, and examines public statements by educators and Ministry of Education officials. The report likewise evaluates to what extent PA schoolbooks, educational TV, and a PA-funded children's magazine promote or undermine peace.
 
Tragically, the Palestinian Authority under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas is doing exactly what Mandela warned against: The PA is teaching its children to hate. The PA and the politically dominant Fatah movement that is also headed by Abbas, teach Palestinian children through their official communication structures that Jews and Israelis possess inherently evil character traits. Fighting them is therefore said to be heroic and even Allah's will. Terrorists who have murdered dozens of Israeli civilians are said to be national heroes and Islamic Martyrs.
 
Common PA hate messages include:
 

• Israel has no right to exist
  
• Israel will disappear and be replaced by "Palestine"
  
• Violence - "armed struggle" - is legitimate to fight Israel
  
• Muslims must fight an eternal Islamic war against Israel
  
• Killers of Israelis are heroes and role models
  
• Martyrdom-death for Allah is the utmost honor
  

Children recited poems on official PA TV children's educational programs in recent years with the following messages:
 

• Jews are "monkeys and pigs"
  
• Jews are "enemies of Allah"
  
• Jews are "most evil of creations"
  
• Zion is "Satan with a tail"
  
  

When children repeat these hate messages they are not corrected by the moderators of the children's programs, instead TV hosts often give them prominence and even applaud them. When a boy told a PA TV news reporter that he had learned in school to "fight the Jews and kill them" his statement was included in the PA TV evening new report without comment or contradiction. (See Chapter 4.)
 
Hitler has been honored by some Palestinian schools and a PA-funded educational magazine, and the PA has named dozens of schools after terrorist murderers of civilians and one school was named after a Nazi collaborator and war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians.
 
While all this hatred is being imbedded in the minds of Palestinian children, peacebuilding contacts between Israeli and Palestinian youth are prohibited by the PA. These person to person contacts between the youth are condemned as "normalization" and the head of the PA's Council for Sport and Youth Affairs actually denounced a successful peacebuilding event as "a crime against humanity."
 
Tragically, Palestinian children are exposed to all of these messages, not from Hamas or fringe groups, but from official PA sources. This report documents this world of hate orchestrated by the Palestinian Authority through the educational structures under its direct control.
 
It is the hope of the authors, that this report will generate discussion and introspection on the part of the Palestinian Authority, which will lead to a change of direction and the creation of peace promoting educational frameworks.



 

http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=15264

Palestine Media Watch! Oh dear Didge, even your Thomas Victor would be a better choice than that. It's run by an Americam immigrant who lives in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. He sets himself up as an expert on that subject and got torn apart by a judge in an Isreali court who completely discreditet him.

Judge dismisses credibility of Palestinian Media

An Israeli district court judge metes out scathing criticism of Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus’s expert witness testimony on incitement in Palestinian media, in a civil case against the PA and its leaders. Marcus’s testimony, Judge Dalia Gano wrote, was incomplete, biased and unworthy of the title “expert witness testimony.”

http://972mag.com/judge-dismisses-credibility-of-palestinian-media-watch-testimony/78900/

And Isreal names schools, streets and educational establishments after terrorists as well. Check out the names of terrorists from the Irgun and the Stern Gang and you will find them.

Show me an independent academic study that supports what the PMW say.

You mean like this one?

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Victims of Our Own Narratives?
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Portrayal of the “Other” in Israeli and Palestinian School Books
Initiated by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land
Funded by a grant from the United States Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded to A Different Future

http://d7hj1xx5r7f3h.cloudfront.net/Israeli-Palestinian_School_Book_Study_Report-English.pdf

Seems Hilary Clinton disagrees with you, which is why you need to read the report.
So what are you denying in the report or is your clai based on once incident with one judge?

Is that you defense for the hate taught in these schools and what you also failed to read in the report:




This report also shows a number of examples of peace messages and initiatives. Palestinians and Israelis should be able to enjoy many more such peacebuilding activities. In the last 15 years, the Association of Secondary School Teachers in Israel has given the Education Award to schools that initiate and implement programs promoting coexistence between Jews and Arabs. The number of schools in Israel running these programs has grown from year to year, and the Association of Secondary School Teachers in Israel sees this as an important undertaking and significant contribution to the education of the next generation, both Arab and Jewish. 


http://palwatch.org/STORAGE/special%20reports/PA%20Education%20Report%20for%20Teachers%20Union%20210715.pdf


Nothing worse than a lefty ignore actually reading the report of which this report has not been shown to be wrong and that your only defense is something before.
That is woeful
I suggest you read the report

There were four main findings of the study. First, dehumanizing and demonizing characterizations of the other as seen in textbooks elsewhere and of concern to the general public are rare in both Israeli and Palestinian books. Second, both Israeli and Palestinian books present unilateral national narratives that present the other as enemy, chronicle negative actions by the other directed at the self community, and present the self community in positive terms with actions aimed at self-protection and goals of peace.
Descriptions of the other as enemy in Israeli books were generally related to violent attacks against Israelis, and Israeli books more often described Palestinians as aiming to destroy than to dominate Israel.  Descriptions of the other as enemy in Palestinian books were generally related to the Jews being given (by international powers) or Israel
appropriating Palestinian land and resources (e.g., water), and Palestinian books more often described Israelis as seeking to dominate than to destroy Palestinians.
Historical events, while not false or fabricated, are selectively presented to reinforce each community’s national narrative
. Third, there is a lack of information about the religions, culture,
economic and daily activities of the other, or even of the existence of the other on maps. The absence of this kind of information about the other serves to deny the legitimate presence of the other
.

Hilary Clinton is a great politician and I hope she is the next president of the USA. But she also has to keep people on side with diplomacy bearing in mind there was a very large Jewish community in New York.
She has hopped about on the Palestine situationa bit and support a two stae solution which of course brings he into conflict with Netanyahu.

I'm sure Hilary was going on the selected stuff offered up by PMW instead of seeing for herself what the text books actually did say.

So now that you have seen and read the independent report funded by the US which has just been submitted you will see the real truth.

It is an excellent report filled with lots of evidence.
I would have thoughtthe pair of you would want children to grow up whether both Israel or Palestinians to get along.
Clearly if wrongs are being done by both sides, then surely this must be tackled to ensure lasting peace?


Allow people to make up their own minds, but if all you can do is attempt to discredit Irn it proves you bury your head in the sand to problems. No children should be taught hate, whether Israel or Palestinian


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Media_Watch

Irn Bru wrote:Hilary Clinton is a great politician and I hope she is the next president of the USA. But she also has to keep people on side with diplomacy bearing in mind there was a very large Jewish community in New York.
She has hopped about on the Palestine situationa bit and support a two stae solution which of course brings he into conflict with Netanyahu.

I'm sure Hilary was going on the selected stuff offered up by PMW instead of seeing for herself what the text books actually did say.

So now that you have seen and read the independent report funded by the US which has just been submitted you will see the real truth.

But as seen it was Palestinian watch that brought this to Hilary Clinton attention, the fact you missed in the video.
As I say Irn this is all you can do to counter the evidence, try to deligitimize, which is funny as that is what people constantly try to do to Israel.
Same tactic, with again ignoring evidence
Again prove the evidence is false in the article and if you admit it is wrong to honour terrorist whether Zionist or Palestinian, then why are you not condemning any of the schools for child abuse.
Like I said you bury your head in the sand and forgo your Liberal values

Cuchulain wrote:It is an excellent report filled with lots of evidence.
I would have thoughtthe pair of you would want children to grow up whether both Israel or Palestinians to get along.
Clearly if wrongs are being done by both sides, then surely this must be tackled to ensure lasting peace?


Allow people to make up their own minds, but if all you can do is attempt to discredit Irn it proves you bury your head in the sand to problems. No children should be taught hate, whether Israel or Palestinian


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Media_Watch

No Didge. I'll go with an independent academic report and a judicial decision in Israel itself that showed that the author and main man at PMW is biased and uses selctive data to produce reports that are innacurate and that he is no expert.

You have read that so there is nothing else to be said really.

Cuchulain wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:Hilary Clinton is a great politician and I hope she is the next president of the USA. But she also has to keep people on side with diplomacy bearing in mind there was a very large Jewish community in New York.
She has hopped about on the Palestine situationa bit and support a two stae solution which of course brings he into conflict with Netanyahu.

I'm sure Hilary was going on the selected stuff offered up by PMW instead of seeing for herself what the text books actually did say.

So now that you have seen and read the independent report funded by the US which has just been submitted you will see the real truth.

But as seen it was Palestinian watch that brought this to Hilary Clinton attention, the fact you missed in the video.
As I say Irn this is all you can do to counter the evidence, try to deligitimize, which is funny as that is what people constantly try to do to Israel.
Same tactic, with again ignoring evidence
Again prove the evidence is false in the article and if you admit it is wrong to honour terrorist whether Zionist or Palestinian, then why are you not condemning any of the schools for child abuse.
Like I said you bury your head in the sand and forgo your Liberal values

See, your falling bacl on a report produced by someone who was discredited in an Isreali court of law. The independent academic report shows the real situation.

It's over Didge.

Is that why they were awarded this year?
All you have is one judge.
That is it, you will not even attempt to look at the evidence.
This is you only ability on debating to try and deligitise and not even debate real wrongs going on.
If you have nothing to prove this report is false, then claiming something in 2013 by one judge is moot.


http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/palestinian-media-watch-director-itamar-marcus-awarded-israel-media-prize/2015/02/08/


As I say you wish to continue to ignore real wrongs, when I see them done on both sides.
You do not debate Irn, you just try to discredit the poster in the hope making them look silly as you attempted to do tonight on something I said in the past and it backfired or own articles attempt to deligitinize them. That only attempts to deny discourse. Never able to debate any of the points.

Anyway as seen you have no intention of looking at evidence, forever with your head in the sand.

Night

Irn Bru wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:


But as seen it was Palestinian watch that brought this to Hilary Clinton attention, the fact you missed in the video.
As I say Irn this is all you can do to counter the evidence, try to deligitimize, which is funny as that is what people constantly try to do to Israel.
Same tactic, with again ignoring evidence
Again prove the evidence is false in the article and if you admit it is wrong to honour terrorist whether Zionist or Palestinian, then why are you not condemning any of the schools for child abuse.
Like I said you bury your head in the sand and forgo your Liberal values

See, your falling bacl on a report produced by someone who was discredited in an Isreali court of law. The independent academic report shows the real situation.

It's over Didge.

Your poor attempts to deny debate are over.
Its not going to buy anymore.
This report was done in 2015 and like the one with Clinton taken on board as very valid to tackle

Night I am not going to waste my time with someone who cannot even offer discourse on these problems, but uses poor political tactics..

Laters

Cuchulain wrote:Is that why they were awarded this year?
All you have is one judge.
That is it, you will not even attempt to look at the evidence.
This is you only ability on debating to try and deligitise and not even debate real wrongs going on.
If you have nothing to prove this report is false, then claiming something in 2013 by one judge is moot.


http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/palestinian-media-watch-director-itamar-marcus-awarded-israel-media-prize/2015/02/08/


As I say you wish to continue to ignore real wrongs, when I see them done on both sides.
You do not debate Irn, you just try to discredit the poster in the hope making them look silly as you attempted to do tonight on something I said in the past and it backfired or own articles attempt to deligitinize them. That only attempts to deny discourse. Never able to debate any of the points.

Anyway as seen you have no intention of looking at evidence, forever with your head in the sand.

Night

Was it an international award Didge or one awarded by the Isreali media?

I condemn both sides for using data like we have seen in the academic independent report.

Night