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"Hamas'
Web School for Suicide Bombers"
By Yohanan Manor and Ido Mizrahi, Middle East Quarterly,
Spring 2010
IMPACT-SE Chairman Dr. Yohanan Manor and Research Coordinator
Ido Mizrahi wrote a paper on the Hamas Web Magazine for
Children (Al-Fateh), detailing its educational
approach and indoctrination of children during the eight
years it has existed, and elaborating upon its significance
as an indicator of the Hamas movement’s ideology.
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IPCRI
Event: “Textbooks, Incitement, and Narratives in
Israeli and Palestinian Schools” - May 26, 2010
IMPACT-SE presented its findings
on Israeli and Palestinian Authority schoolbooks at an
event organized by the Israel Palestine Center for Research
and Information (IPCRI). Listen
to an interview with Yael-Teff Seker on IPCRI’s
weekly radio show “At the Crossroads” (mp3,
4.6 mb, Hebrew.) Read
more...
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Op-ed:
"Talk is Not Cheap" (pdf, 93 kb)
By Nir Boms and Ido Mizrahi, Jerusalem Post -
May 3, 2010
IMPACT-SE Research Coordinator Ido Mizrahi and Board member
Nir Boms have published an op-ed in response to the recent
release by Hamas of an animated
video clip showing Noam Schalit bemoaning the fate
of his captive son Gilad (published in Hebrew
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IMPACT-SE
and Wasatia present to French Students: The Challenges
of Development and Education - April 7, 2010
IMPACT-SE Director General Noga Porat, Director of Communications
David Oman and Prof. Muhammad Dajani Daoudi, Founding
Director of the Palestinian movement ‘Wasatia,’
presented to a group of 60 French MBA student-entrepreneurs
on a study mission from the prestigious HEC
Paris. Read
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Op-ed:
"On Tombs and Rage" (pdf, 114 kb) - March
2010
By Nir Boms and Ido Mizrahi
In the midst of a wave of violent protests in Jerusalem
and the West Bank, IMPACT-SE Research Coordinator Ido
Mizrahi and Board member Nir Boms have written about the
damaging effects of introducing politics, through schoolbooks,
into religion and history (published in Hebrew--pdf,
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Al-Fateh Report Impacts
British Prime Minister - January 2010
IMPACT-SE presented MP Louise Ellman (Labour) with its
report on the Hamas
Web Magazine for Children (Al-Fateh) in November
2009 and illustrated the danger it poses for children
in the Middle East and Britain. MP Ellman has since called
on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other ministers to
block access to the site in the UK, invoking and quoting
from the report. The British Home Office is currently
looking into her request. See: |
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Arabs,
Islam and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks : A Preliminary
Update
Yael Teff-Seker, November 2009
IMPACT-SE has recently started a review of Israeli
schoolbooks used in school year 2009-2010. It has discovered
that the encouraging fundamentals found in the previous
report persisted and even strengthened, namely: regarding
the "other" as first and foremost a human
being; overcoming suspicion, hatred and prejudices;
knowing and respecting Islam and Arabs; admitting the
legitimacy of the rival national movement and; presenting
conflict in a balanced way. Read
more...
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the Preliminary Update (pdf, 994 kb)
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Peace
and the "Other" in Tunisian Schoolbooks: Concise
Final Report
Dr. Arnon Groiss, November 2009
IMPACT-SE has concluded a report on Tunisia's schoolbooks.
The results are extraordinary: following reforms of
revolutionary proportions carried out by the Ministry
of Education, the Tunisian schoolbooks, in stark contrast
with most Middle Eastern curricula, emphasize the importance
of tolerance, peace and dialog with the “other,”
equality between all human groups, openness toward the
“other” and its culture (that is, the West),
use of religion for universal rapprochement, and restriction
of the ideals of (militant) jihad and martyrdom to historical
events. Read
more...
Read
the Concise Report (pdf, 790 kb)
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Palestinian
Schoolbooks: An Updated Conclusion
Dr. Arnon Groiss, October 2009
IMPACT-SE has studied the Palestinian Authority schoolbooks
used in the current school year (2009-2010), and has
come to the conclusion that although positive changes
have occurred in the books during the last two years,
they still do not amount to forming a clear departure
from the negative fundamentals in PA schoolbooks regarding
the attitude to the Jewish and Israeli “other”
and to peaceful resolution of the Middle Eastern conflict.
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the Conclusion (pdf, 43 kb)
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