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Since 2001, IMPACT-SE (formerly CMIP) published the following
reports on the Palestinian Authority schoolbooks:
 "Palestinian
Authority School Textbooks, 2011:
A Draft Report on Attitudes toward Israel and the Jews; Peace
and Non-Violence; the West Gender and the Environment"
May 1, 2011
Attached is a draft report on 117 school
textbooks of the Palestinian Authority's (PA), from grade
1 to grade 12, issued depicting attitudes towards Jews and
Israel, Peace and Non-Violence as well as Gender and the Environment.
The school textbooks include 70 student books and 22 teacher
guides issued by the PA Ministry of Education along with 25
student books issued by the PA Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf)
and Religious Affairs. All the 118 books and guides are in
current use at the PA schools.
Read the Executive Summary:
Arabic
(pdf, 320 kb)
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
3.20 mb)
Related Readings:
- 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..." Click
here to read the full article (pdf
version, 68 kb)
 "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)
Related Readings:
 "Palestinian
Authority Schoolbooks: An Updated Conclusion"
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.
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
43 kb)
Related Readings:
"Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and
Hamas"
March 2008
 This
is our concluding analysis of the seven-year schoolbook publication
project, which took place in the Palestinian Authority until
2006. It is based on the six reports issued by IMPACT-SE (formerly
CMIP) since 1998, including our recent draft report on schoolbooks
for grades 11 and 12 (see below). It examines the underlying
principles in PA's attitude to the Other and to peace in the
Middle East, which are revealed in the books. It also attempts
to determine whether a shift took place in this respect during
the publication process, as a result of the major political
changes in the Palestinian Authority. Briefly, it concludes
that some improvement was noticeable in the schoolbooks published
under Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, following the death of Yassir
Arafat, but the older, uncompromising approach reappears under
the Hamas-led government.
Executive
Summary (pdf, 37 kb)
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
693 kb)
French
(pdf, 309 kb)
DRAFT: Jews, Israel, the West and Peace
in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks
for Grades 11, 12 and Muslim Schools in the West Bank
September 2007
 This
draft report covers the school textbooks of the last two grades
of the PA educational system, which were published in 2005
and 2006, thus ending a seven-year process in which the PA
replaced the old Jordanian and Egyptian schoolbook for all
grades with its own ones. While the books for grades 1-10
were all written and published under the late PA Chairman
Yasser Arafat, the books for grade 11 were written under his
successor Mahmud Abbas and the books for grade 12 were written
under the Hamas government, which may account for the changes
therein.
Read the Full Draft Report:
English (pdf,
3.61 mb)
Read the Draft Report by Chapter:
Table
of Contents (pdf, 10 kb)
Executive
Summary (pdf, 37 kb)
Introduction (pdf,
9 kb)
Chapter
1: Other Religions and their Followers in General (pdf,
20 kb)
Chapter
2: The Jews (pdf, 468 kb)
Chapter
3: Israel (pdf, 1.22 mb)
Chapter
4: The Conflict (pdf, 672 kb)
Chapter
5: Peace (pdf, 105 kb)
Chapter
6: War (pdf, 35 kb)
Chapter
7: The West (pdf, 807 kb)
Conclusion (pdf,
22 kb)
Appendix:
Books Issued by the PA Ministry (pdf, 218 kb)
List
of Sources (pdf, 10 kb)
Related Readings:
-
AJC
/ IMPACT-SE Report: "Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian
Textbooks" (pdf, 28 kb)
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.
- "Attitudes toward Jews in schoolbooks issued
by the PA Ministry of Endowments & Religious Affairs"
- Briefing, Jerusalem, Jan. 8, 2008
Eradicating incitement from Palestinian schools has been
a central theme in negotiations since the Oslo accords.
President Bush himself has demanded that educators "Teach
values and moral responsibility in schools." In light
of President Bush's visit to Israel and the Palestinian
Authority, CMIP hosted this briefing to examine religious
textbooks for 7th-12th grade students in the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip.
Supporting documents:
Jews, Israel and Peace in the Palestinian Authority
Textbooks:
The New Textbooks for Grades 5 and 10
June 2005
This is the fifth in a series of surveys
by CMIP on the new school textbooks published by the Palestinian
Authority (PA) as part of the general project that began in
2000 to replace all the textbooks that were then in use in
the PA schools.
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
2.56 mb)
Read the Report by Chapter:
Table
of Contents (pdf, 22 kb)
Executive
Summary (pdf, 28 kb)
Introduction (pdf,
21 kb)
Chapter
1: The Attitude to Other Religions and Their Followers (pdf,
29 kb)
Chapter
2: The Jews (pdf, 140 kb)
Chapter
3: Israel (pdf, 1.58 mb)
Chapter
4: The Conflict (pdf, 259 kb)
Chapter
5: Peace (pdf, 179 kb)
Chapter
6: War (pdf, 471 kb)
Chapter
7: The West (pdf, 283 kb)
Conclusion (pdf,
31 kb)
List
of Sources (pdf, 15 kb)
 Jews,
Israel and Peace in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks:
The New Textbooks for Grades 4 and 9
August 2004
This is the fourth in a series of surveys
of the Palestinian Authority school textbooks by IMPACT-SE.
It covers 32 books for grades 4 and 9, as well as a second
edition of an atlas approved by the PA.
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
4.82 mb)
Read the Report by Chapter:
Table
of Contents (pdf, 99 kb)
Executive
Summary (pdf, 116 kb)
Introduction (pdf,
105 kb)
Chapter
1: Judaism and the Jews (pdf, 569 kb)
Chapter
2: Israel (pdf, 3.72 mb)
Chapter
3: The Conflict (pdf, 406 kb)
Chapter
4: Peace (pdf, 121 kb)
Chapter
5: Jihad, Martyrdom and Terror (pdf, 121 kb)
Chapter
6: The West (pdf, 341 kb)
Conclusion (pdf,
118 kb)
List
of Sources (pdf, 74 kb)
 Jews,
Israel and Peace in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks:
The New Textbooks for Grades 3 and 8
May 2003
This report examines a newer set of some
35 books in various subjects published by the PA in 2002,
mainly for grades 3 and 8.
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
3.39 mb)
Read the Report by Chapter:
Table
of Contents (pdf, 102 kb)
Executive
Summary (pdf, 123 kb)
Introduction (pdf,
98 kb)
Chapter
1: Judaism (pdf, 306 kb)
Chapter
2: The Jews (pdf, 170 kb)
Chapter
3: Israel and Palestine (pdf, 2.16 mb)
Chapter
4: Israel's Image (pdf, 404 kb)
Chapter
5: Jerusalem (pdf, 134 kb)
Chapter
6: The Refugees (pdf, 107 kb)
Chapter
7: Tolerance (pdf, 229 kb)
Chapter
8: Peace (pdf, 216 kb)
Chapter
9: The Liberation of Palestine (pdf, 98 kb)
Chapter
10: Jihad and Martyrdom (pdf, 336 kb)
Chapter
11: Terror (pdf, 158 kb)
Conclusion (pdf,
102 kb)
List
of Sources (pdf, 98 kb)
 Jews,
Israel and Peace in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks and
High School Final Examinations
October 2002
This complementary report deals with 14 books,
in addition to the 26 high school final examinations in various
subjects from the years 2000 and 2002.
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
650 kb)
Read the Report by Chapter:
Table
of Contents (pdf, 22 kb)
Introduction (pdf,
31 kb)
Chapter
1: The Jews (pdf, 173 kb)
Chapter
2: Israel (pdf, 233 kb)
Chapter
3: Jerusalem (pdf, 132 kb)
Chapter
4: The Refugees (pdf, 96 kb)
Chapter
5: Peace, Tolerance, Co-existence (pdf, 56 kb)
Chapter
6: War, Jihad, Martyrdom (pdf, 80 kb)
Chapter
7: Terror (pdf, 44 kb)
Chapter
8: Other Issues (pdf, 149 kb)
Concluding
Remarks (pdf, 32 kb)
List
of Sources (pdf, 28 kb)
 Jews,
Israel and Peace in Palestinian School Textbooks
November 2001
Jews, Israel and Peace in Palestinian School
Textbooks 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. This is the first survey
by IMPACT-SE of the textbooks published by the Palestinian
National Authority.
Read the Full Report:
English (pdf,
2.45 mb)
Read the Report by Chapter:
Table
of Contents (pdf, 121 kb)
Executive
Summary (pdf, 128 kb)
Introduction (pdf,
94 kb)
Chapter
1: The Jews (pdf, 408 kb)
Chapter
2: Israel (pdf, 1.30 mb)
Chapter
3: Peace (pdf, 941 kb)
Conclusion (pdf,
90 kb)
List
of Sources (pdf, 114 kb)
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