[ April 23, 2024 ]
Members of Congress are considering a bill that’s supported by both Republicans and Democrats that will review textbooks used by “Palestinians” that call for jihad against the Jews and that further an anti-Israel sentiment.
Rep. David Young, a Republican from Iowa, introduced the bill, entitled the “Palestinian Authority Educational Curriculum Transparency Act.”
It calls for the State Department to step in and take a closer look at these types of textbooks.
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The Algemeiner has more:
Members of Congress have brought forward a bipartisan bill to review textbooks and other materials used in Palestinian schools that have been accused of promoting extremism.
The Palestinian Authority Educational Curriculum Transparency Act — introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday by Rep. David Young (R-Iowa) — calls on the US State Department to annually verify whether educational resources published by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to encourage “violence or intolerance toward other nations or ethnic groups.”
The bill notes that despite being reformed in 2016 and 2017, Palestinian curriculums for grades 1 through 11 “fail to meet the international standards of peace and tolerance in educational materials established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.”
Textbooks used by the PA and the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) likewise “demonize Israel, encourage war, and teach children that Palestinian statehood can be achieved through violence,” it warns.
UNRWA — which has in the past asserted that its textbooks have been rigorously reviewed to ensure they are in line with UN standards — maintains 349 schools in the Palestinian territories, with 240,400 students in Gaza and 50,000 students in the West Bank.
If passed, the State Department will be required to inform Congress whether any US foreign aid was used to fund the inciting materials, and of any steps the PA and UNRWA have taken to address the situation.
“If the report finds that the hate has not been removed, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will not tolerate US funds being used to teach the curriculum in UNWRA and PA schools,” said Marcus Sheff, CEO of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), which was involved in drafting the legislation.
In such a scenario, “sanctions will necessarily be applied,” he told The Algemeiner.
A review carried out by IMPACT-se last year found that PA textbooks “groom young Palestinians to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom,” promote the idea of a mass “return” to Israel, and “feature a radical Islamist, and occasionally, a Salafi worldview.”
The findings were used to encourage European Union lawmakers to approve amendments in April to prevent aid to the PA from financing educational materials considered discriminatory or intolerant.
“American and European lawmakers’ growing awareness about PA incitement in schools comes with a crucial understanding of how large an impediment to peace and tolerance the PA curriculum really is,” Sheff said. “The PA’s donor nations are in the best position to demand change from PA leaders.”
Washington was the leading donor to UNRWA in 2017, which provides food aid, healthcare, and other social services to more than five million Palestinians across the Middle East. Its $364 million contribution was more than double that of the EU, the second largest funder. The US pledged early this year to withhold aid to UNRWA until it undergoes reforms, ultimately cutting some $305 million in assistance, the agency’s chief said in April.
Rep. Young’s bill — co-sponsored by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) — has been submitted to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for review.
It comes three months after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, which cuts US aid to the PA until Ramallah stops paying salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists and their families. The legislation was named after a US Army veteran and Vanderbilt University graduate student killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack while visiting Israel in 2016.
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32 Comments
5 years ago
no sh!t dick jihadi
5 years ago
Long past due! It is a little easier to protect children from jihadi indoctrination when there isn’t a jihadi usurper in the White House.
5 years ago
Reply to
iprazhm
We must do the same thing for textbooks here in America as well!!! There is a guy from Texas who is doing great work on fighting the anti-Christian, anti-Jewish / anti-Israel, anti-Western Civ lies and propaganda:
Lt Col Roy White
http://truthintexastextbooks.com/
Another group working on this is PJTN https://www.pjtn.org/welcome?splash=1
A well organized and orchestrated propaganda campaign flush with virtually unlimited Muslim money is bribing textbook publishers to brainwash America’s children! It must be stopped if we want to preserve the Judeo-Christian foundation of this country!!!
5 years ago
No place to wish Pamela a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on this site, so this will have to be it!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAM!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
acewheeler
Thanks for letting us know! Hoping for many many many more years of fighting for America!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
acewheeler
Happy Birthday Ms. Geller!
May you continue to piss off liberals in your own unique way.
I know I will try in my own smaller way.
5 years ago
Reply to
TD
Agree. she is real Hero and True patriot !
It took Israelis to expose truth about Palestinian fakery and Lies and boy was Trump furious when he realised how he had been conned http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ
Good that at least now someone is waking up.
5 years ago
Israel demonizes itself
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Rat Man du, it to everyone he can catch.
It is probably a programmed robot.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
No. Palestinians are turned into terrorists at age 4:
even trained to be willing human shields.
5 years ago
Reply to
TD
Kat knows that. I blocked the jihad cheerleader a long time ago. If paid by SOROS, he needs a refund. If that’s not it, he should be locked up in a rubber room and lose the key.
5 years ago
As long as they’re addressing that issue why don’t they address the fact that US textbooks and pubic schools have becoming nothing more than islamic propaganda centres?
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
First Amendment bars that review domestically. Hence its scope abroad only.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Hmmm, doesn’t the 1st amendment have an anti-establishement clause for religion? What is the propagation of islamic propaganda in public schools but the establishment of islum as a state religion?
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
I don’t see how this would constitute favoring one religion over another though.
5 years ago
GOOD! Review the racist pally text-books, then use them as further evidence to put them on the TRAVEL BAN!
5 years ago
I remember when GWB, that far back, wanted to look at textbooks being used at Muslim schools here. It didn’t go anywhere. They hid behind Islamophoiba etc.. Maybe with Trump as President it will expose them more.
5 years ago
The bill notes that despite being reformed in 2016 and 2017, Palestinian curriculums for grades 1 through 11 “fail to meet the international standards of peace and tolerance in educational materials established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.”
Notice how influential the U.N. has become right down to EDUCATIONAL material. No surprise the U.N. has no problem with jihad material being taught to Muslims. The U.N. needs to be dissolved.
5 years ago
It has taken this long to come to the realization the Pal Authorities are promoting anti-Semitic/Israel propaganda to their school children. Hell, the fetus in the womb is being brainwashed to loathe Jews and murder Israelis. At two years of age, old enough to wear a bomb-vest or carry an AK-47, these kids are ready to kill with the PA’s or parents’ direction. Like many, I am fed-up of the lies spewed by the Pals and its leftist supporters. Not to mention anti-Semitism is deemed fashionably acceptable by governments, the judiciary or police while daring to criticize Islam is an indictable offense. Hatred for Jews and all non-Muslims is a genetic affliction for which there is no cure or panacea. Hate, intolerance is inherent throughout the Muslim world including the so-called Palestinians.
Happy Birthday, Pamela and many more.
5 years ago
We should NOT be paying anything for these Palestinian “refugees”. Force MUSLIM countries to PAY for them. They are NOT our problem.
Helping them financially has created an entitlement mindset fueled by HATRED towards us. Irrational? Yes, but that is how Muslims are. Consider it a strange form of a jitya tax. NO MORE MONEY for MUSLIMS!.
5 years ago
Palestinians aren’t using human shields, Israel is https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/6/12/palestinians-arent-using-human-shields-israel-is
5 years ago
Yes, this makes sense. But I don’t know why we are paying for it? Why do we pay everbody else’s bull, er bill?
5 years ago
Will that excellent bill ever be passed?????
Or will the Democrats get their dirty hands on it and turn it inside out?
5 years ago
Reply to
Mickey Oberman
The bill has bipartisan support. Unless it gets bogged down with something else, it should pass. Read the article!
5 years ago
great news and happy birthday Pamela
5 years ago
Great idea, since it’s OUR MONEY the Ramallah clique is using to publish these hate-filled tracts.
Makes a fine bookend with the Taylor Force Act banning payments to terrorists with OUR money. It’s about time some pressure got put on the Palestinian Authority to actually live up to its Oslo Accords promises and stop terrorism and incitement.
Not that this means peace is right around the corner, but every little bit helps. And it’s a breath of fresh air, blowing in the right direction this time, instead of pressuring Israel to make concession after concession and getting nothing in return.
5 years ago
Pakistan does the same with their textbooks, also spewing poison about Jews and Hindus…
