Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | October 2024

28 The Hebrew language is also erased from a Mandate coin included in a mathematics textbook, Grade 6, Part B.

30 The Jews and Zionists are accused of intending to exterminate the Palestinians before the establishment of the State of Israel (accusations that intensified after “Operation Iron Swords”): “1. The Zionists founded their entity on terrorism, extermination [Abadah], and colonialism [Istiamar]. We will explain this. (“Arabic Language – Academic Pathway,” 10th grade, Part B) “The Jews committed war crimes against our people without pause.” (Teacher’s Guide, Arabic Language, 9th grade). 31 The teacher guides also compare the “Zionist occupation policy” to the Mongols, and the Romans’ treatment of Carthage (massacres, burning, etc.). (Teacher’s guide for Social Studies, 7th and 6th grades, respectively) 32 An essential part of the demonization is emphasizing massacres committed by Jews. Here is an assignment for the teacher to give students: “Activity 2 – Drawing a picture to describe the massacre [mentioned in the story of the conquest of the village of Dawayma in 1948]: Divide the students into heterogeneous groups. Each group will be required to imagine the events of the massacre, draw them, and color them with the appropriate colors. The pictures will be hung prominently in the classroom, and several will be selected for discussion.” (Teacher’s Guide, Arabic Language, 7th grade) 33 Here are excerpts from “A Letter from a Palestinian Girl to the Children of the World”: “Since I was born, they have killed my childhood. They tore my doll to pieces, and I hid it in my heart. Since I was born, the whistle of bullets has pierced my ears, and darkness has covered everything around me…

Demonization 29 Textbooks contain no positive information about Israel and Jews. Instead, Jews are depicted as embodiments of absolute evil. During research into PA textbooks, more than forty accusations were found in various areas, ranging from land theft, massacres of its inhabitants, and the murder of children to causing cancer in Hebron as a result of the nuclear reactor in Dimona. Here is an example for teachers of 2nd-grade students on how to present the conflict: “The teacher will tell a short story about our homeland, Palestine: ‘My grandfather lived in a beautiful village near [the area of] Haifa, worked in agriculture, loved the land, and cared for it. One sad day, strange faces came to expel my grandfather from his land, burn the crops, and force him to migrate to distant lands.’”

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