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Can't face up to zionist lies, racism and hypocrisy?

A textbook case of Israeli propaganda

A NEW Israeli army “study” charges that Palestinian school textbooks contain “systematic education to delegitimise the existence of the state of Israel, fanning the flames of hatred and violent revenge to destroy the country” (“Palestinian schoolbooks fan the flames of hatred,” Haaretz, June 28, 2002).

Such claims, which have been made by Israel and its extremist supporters in the United States for years, are simply an attempt by Israel to find some alternative explanation to the understandable rage felt by Palestinians who have suffered through decades of continuing dispossession, occupation, disenfranchisement, violence, torture and humiliation at the hands of Israel.

An independent study of Palestinian textbooks by Professor Nathan Brown of George Washington University in Washington, DC, notes that “virtually every discussion in English on Palestinian education repeats the charge that Palestinian textbooks incite students against Jews and Israel”. Brown states that: “It may therefore come as a surprise to readers that the books authored under the PNA are largely innocent of these charges. What is more remarkable than any statements they make on the subject is their silence — the PNA-authored books often stubbornly avoid treating anything controversial regarding Palestinian national identity, forcing them into awkward omissions and gaps.”

Brown, while not uncritical of the Palestinian textbooks, concluded that “the Palestinian curriculum is not a war curriculum; while highly nationalistic, it does not incite hatred, violence and anti-Semitism. It cannot be described as a peace curriculum either, but the charges against it are often wildly exaggerated or inaccurate.” (“Democracy, History and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum,” an independent report prepared for the Adam Institute, 2002 [http://www.nad-plo.org/textbooks/nathan_textbook.... Nationalism, whatever its drawbacks, underpins almost every country's school curriculum, not least in the United States and Israel.

How can we explain the glaring discrepancy between Brown's findings and those of the Israeli army propaganda unit? ....

http://www.pcdc.edu.ps/textbook_case_propaganda.ht...

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