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- Justice
for Gaza: "Gaza education focuses on violence, martyrdom"
June 26, 2011
"'All education works,' said Shelley Elkayam, Educational
Counselor and IMPACT-SE's CEO. Anti-Semitic education
works, peace education works. It all depends on where
you put your focus. You can teach peace education and
tolerance, but GAZA has a tendency to blame Israel for
everything, and to ignore improvements that have been
made. 'It takes time. Today’s education will be
the reality on the ground in 20 years from today,' she
said." Read
the full article here (PDF
version, 97 kb).
- IMPACT-SE
in Australian News
"Hate v hate as peace is sidelined" - April
30, 2011
"[T]he latest insight into incitement comes from
a study of 118 textbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority
[...] it is clear from the textbooks survey there is a
school curriculum that refuses to acknowledge Israel or
incites hostility towards Israelis and Jews. The survey
[soon to be published on this website; click
here for previous research on the PA textbooks]
was done by Impact-SE, an independent research organisation
whose advisory board includes Muslims, Jews and Christians.
Its chief executive Shelly Elkayam summarised the research
to Focus: 'The Palestinian Authority in an organised way
has created a policy that is expressed in the textbooks
in which there is no Jewish entity in the Middle East
[...] What we are monitoring is not spontaneous expression
of politicians or religious leaders, what we are studying,
analysing and presenting is the product of the policy
of the Palestinian Authority in educating their children,"
she says.'" Click
here to read the full article (pdf
version, 68 kb)
- "Israel
absent or only negative presence in PA textbooks"
The Jerusalem Post - April 13, 2011 - PDF
Version (100 kb)
The Palestinian Authority still has a long way to go before
textbooks in its schools begin to teach true coexistence
with Israeli Jews, according to findings from a study
released Tuesday. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and
Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), which
reviews textbooks from Israel, the Arab world and Iran,
unveiled its 2011
report on PA school textbooks in a briefing with journalists
at the headquarters of MediaCentral, in Jerusalem...
- IMPACT-SE
on German TV
March 15, 2011
IMPACT-SE's CEO Shelley Shandor Elkayam
was interviewed by a newscast on German television about
the widespread trend in Hamas education to deny the holocaust,
as well about the tendency in their school education to
deny reality and truth. Our point of view is that governmental
authorities do not promote cultural understanding and
cooperation by falsifying facts and by renaming sites
which have been well-accepted for 1,700 years. Click
here to see the video clip from the interview.
- "Rachel's
Tomb in Palestinian Schoolbooks: The Genesis of Falsification
and its Implications"
March 2011
In October 2010, the board of UNESCO adopted a resolution
reaffirming that "The Palestinian sites of al-Haram
al-Ibrahimi / Tomb of the Patriarchs in al-Khalil / Hebron
and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque / Rachel’s Tomb in
Bethlehem… are an integral part of the occupied
Palestinian Territories and that any unilateral action
by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation
of international law." With regard to Rachel's tomb,
the board of UNESCO was actually being misled and manipulated.
Read the Full Report: English (pdf,
176 kb)
- IMPACT-SE Debates "School and Prejudices"
at the French National Assembly
February 10, 2011
The conference chaired by MP and former minister Bernard
Debré on the theme "School and prejudices
- Does school still contribute to combating biases and
prejudices?" took place at the French National Assembly
on the initiative of IMPACT-SE. The conference moderated
by IMPACT-SE representative Patrick Pilcer turned around
the testimonies of Yannick Trigance, Annick Azerhad, Edith
Cresson, Michel Payen and a paper on pedagogic schemes
for pinpointing and dispelling prejudices by Yohanan Manor.
Read
more, listen to the conference and access the materials.
Pour la version
française, cliquez ici.
- New Press Release:
A Comparative Analysis of Egypt's, Tunisia's and Iran's
Schoolbooks
English
(pdf, 43 kb) - French
(pdf, 43 kb) - Hebrew
(pdf, 52kb)
By IMPACT-SE, February 2011
Synopsis - Israel and Tunisia rank highest in
education for tolerance and peace in the Middle East.
This is the finding of pioneering survey conducted by
IMPACT-SE, which shows that Tunisia has instituted educational
reforms and is no less tolerant than Israel. On the other
hand, the curriculum of the Egyptian school system, still
in grip of the al-Azhar clerics, does not teach democratic
values, lowering the chances for the emergence of a liberal
democratic government in Egypt. Iran ranked lowest. Read
more...
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IMPACT-SE in the News
January - February 2011
IMPACT-SE's press
release on Tunisian textbooks helped the media and
the public understand that revolution starts with education,
following the separation between religion and state.
These, we suggested, brought about the new historical
phenomenon. Our position papers have evolved the discourse
by pointing to journalists and policy makers the difference
between Egypt and Tunisia rooted in educational and
cultural foundation:
- Los Angeles Times: "Researchers
see Tunisia as a textbook revolution"
February 2, 2011 - PDF
Version (193 kb)
Revolutions seem to take place all of a sudden,
but usually they don't really come out of the blue.
Whether religious, political or economic reasons
are behind upheaval, it often reflects a long process
that reached a tipping point and a window of opportunity...
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