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  • AJC-CMIP Report: "Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian Textbooks" (pdf, 28 kb)
    March 20, 2008
    Seven years after the Palestinian Authority began publishing textbooks for use in West Bank and Gaza schools, there still is no recognition of the State of Israel and no advocacy of peace with it. Instead, the textbooks promote violent struggle, while hateful descriptions of Jews and the West remain prevalent.
  • Analysis: "Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas" (pdf, 693 kb)
    By Dr. Arnon Groiss - March 2008
    This timeline gives the outside observer an excellent opportunity to examine whether political changes within the PA have had an impact on the PA curriculum so far as the attitudes to the “other” and to peace were concerned. Comparing the forty-two books issued for grades 11 and 12 with their predecessors, one can determine that some changes did occur, as analyzed below, although the fundamentals remained intact.
  • "Jihadist indoctrination in the schools" (pdf 14 kb)
    By Nir Boms - December 17, 2007 - Washington Times
    A new U.S. intelligence assessment suggests that Iran may have halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that its weapons program remains on hold. This revelation has created much consternation in Congress on both sides of the aisle. Indeed, despite the latest estimate, other intelligence reports and Iran's own statements point to Tehran possibly acquiring a bomb before the end of this decade. Hence the discussion regarding the possible nuclear intentions of the Iranian government remains a crucial one.
  • "Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli School Textbooks. Changing the Perception of the 'Other'" (pdf, 218 kb)
    By Yohanan Manor - November 2007
    This article by Dr. Yohanan Manor was published in Israel on Israel, by Michel Korinman and John Laughland, Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (12 Nov 2007). The present analysis is based on the findings of two surveys carried out by CMIP on 500 Israeli school textbooks that were in use in the school years 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. On one hand, the results confirm other researchers' observation of a radical turning point that occurred in the middle of the 80s, and, on the other, they surpass them in highlighting an active preparation for coexistence with the Arabs and the Palestinians.
  • "State Sponsored Child Abuse in Iran: Iran's violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child" (pdf, 155 kb)
    By Shayan Arya and Nir Boms - November 7, 2007
    As this paper shows, Iran is committing serious violations of the Convention on the Rights
    of the Child while cynically remaining a signatory. It has an intricate system of legislation
    that enables the government to veto its own constitution that secures children’s rights. It is
    endangering children by encouraging them to seek death and is instilling in them hatred
    toward different cultures and religions via its education curriculum.
  • "Orwellian 'New-Speak', Iranian Style"
    By Nir Boms - June 26, 2007
    This article was composed for The Henry Jackson Society, by Nir Boms, Vice President of the Center for Freedom in the Middle East. It deals with the alarming findings of recent research on Iranian school textbooks.
  • "Iran's Global War Curriculum" (pdf, 323 kb)
    By Arnon Groiss - January 10, 2007
    This is an article published by Dr. Arnon Groiss, in Geopolitical Affairs, Spring 2007 (Vol.1, No.1). It attempts to present an outline of the Iranian worldview and agenda, based on CMIP's study of 95 school textbooks of all grades published in 2004 and 20 teacher’s guides published mostly since 2000.
    English  (pdf, 323 kb) - French (pdf, 2.49 mb) - German (pdf, 2.48 mb)