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Research Study, Kept from Public, Finds EU Is Financing Incitement in Palestinian Schools
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - The 200-page report from the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, commissioned by then-EU foreign affairs representative Federica Mogherini, examined 156 textbooks and 16 teaching curriculums issued by the Palestinian Authority between 2017-2020. The unpublished report, obtained by the Jerusalem Post, found that Brussels directly funds the salaries of teachers and the publication of textbooks which encourage and glorify violence against Israelis and Jews. The report says that in the textbooks, "Frequent use of negative attributions in relation to the Jewish people...suggests a conscious perpetuation of anti-Jewish prejudice." Most maps erase Israel, portraying the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as Palestine. The Israel Foreign Ministry said the research findings "prove that the EU, even at this very moment, is continuing to invest millions in the funding of the Palestinian Authority's educational system...with no monitoring of the content that appears in the textbooks, and without demanding that the Palestinian Authority immediately stop indoctrinating its children to hate and kill." As such, "the EU's policy harms the chances of promoting coexistence and contradicts the EU's stated commitment to combating anti-Semitism."