Eradicating Israel, One Palestinian Lie After Another

"This curriculum has been widely condemned for spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and hate, rejecting a two-state solution, and inserting examples of violence into subjects like science and math."

"Supporting newcomers and refugees is an integral part of Canadian values -- but allowing hateful curriculum to be taught on Canadian soil is blatantly inappropriate."

Shimon Koffler Fogel, president, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

"It is a curriculum that, in almost every subject, tends to emphasize concepts that are all about negating the right of the Jewish people to a sovereign state of the land. It's about negating the history of the Jewish people in the land."

"It's about indoctrinating students to this idea of return, which is basically another Palestinian code word for no space for the Jewish people anywhere between the river to the sea."

Einat Wilf, author, former member of Israeli Knesset

"When there is no idea of peacemaking in these textbooks, when they talk about jihad and martyrdom as the most important meanings of life, that is what we saw, that kind of incitement, day after day in school, and an official school surrounding is obviously going to be disastrous in relation to the education of people and the incitement of them to commit these terrible acts."

"That is a curriculum which cannot possibly be continued to be taught, particularly to people who are from Gaza, a place that, as a result of this education, were the people who started this terrible situation by the October 7 massacre."

"The curriculum which emerged was more radical than the previous curriculum. It wasn't a reform, it was a radicalization of textbooks, so that any ideas of peacemaking were entirely removed, any possibility of living peacefully with Israel or with Jews was removed."

Marcus Sheff, CEO, Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se

 

"[The European Union Parliament's document] condemns  the problematic and hateful contents encouraging violence, spreading antisemitism and inciting hatred in Palestinian school textbooks, drafted by [European] Union-funded civil servants as well as in supplementary educational materials developed by UNRWA staff and taught in its schools."

European Union April statement

TDSB students walking in a rally as demonstrators are heard chanting “From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime.”

An alert went out in the Canadian Jewish community with the discovery of an offer from the Palestinian Authority to teach its curriculum to children recently arrived in Canada from Gaza. The offer was characterized as "unacceptable" and "blatantly inappropriate". The announcement was seen on the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada website. Representing the interests of the Palestinian Authority, the West Bank governing body which has seen fit to invite people to sign up for the program through a Google form.

Originally posted in Arabic, the message was translated with the use of Google, urging Gazan students in Canada to "register their data as soon as possible". The Palestinian ambassador to Canada, Mona Abuamara, responded with the explanation that the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education has made the offer of its online curriculum for all Gazan students worldwide, unable to attend school in countries where education may not be free. Under Canada's special temporary residency program launched by the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, some 200 Gazans arrived in Canada.

Under the program 1,000 visas were initially offered, then expanded to 5,000 but arrivals have been slow, with Gazan Palestinians experiencing difficulty in leaving the country. Many, according to Abuamara, may simply enter the Canadian education system without need of the PA curriculum. And why would they not, since the 'pro-Palestinian' infiltration in the Canadian school system at all levels has seen the Toronto and District School Board allowing its students to attend events where anti-Israel placards and memes are in full display, encouraging Canadian students exposed to such events to echo the chants disparaging Jews and Israel.

Moreover a recent discovery of a child's story book that appears on the curriculum has been shown to represent yet another manoeuvre to discredit Israel, Zionism and Jews in the pretext of exposing Canadian children to different cultures, introducing them to words in Arabic used by Palestinians to expand their knowledge of world affairs, where Zionism is described as an evil Jewish plot to wrest 'Palestine' from the possession of Palestinians through the presence of the Jewish State.

Textbooks used by the PA prominently feature the glorification of terrorism, antisemitism and violence. Where Jihad "for the liberation of Palestine" is taught as a "private obligation for every Muslim". One Islamic education chapter teaches that Jews are corrupt, doomed to destruction as their "corruption of the land was and will be the cause of their annihilation". Over 200 maps used in the textbooks are absent of the presence of Israel. Modern Jewish Israeli cities are erased and Arab cities, regions and topography in Israel are given as Palestinian, under Palestinian sovereignty.

"This is one network for all the Gazan kids who have been dismissed from their home and are unable to continue taking their courses. So, we are starting with gathering the information."

"Basically, the ministry then would be able to know how to provide help for them, so they won't lose any more time or years of education."

"We did not receive any responses, still, and we doubt that in Canada there would be a big number, because we don't think that there is a number from Gaza that have kids arrive here, and would fit in this situation, to take online courses, to continue education."

"The curriculum is not what it's portrayed to be. I've seen the tests and I studied the curriculum in Palestine."

"I can assure you that the myth that is provided on that is wrong. Our kids are just resisting, in their own way, not being provided what any child has the right to get -- which is education."

Mona Abuamara, Palestinian 'Ambassador' to Canada