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- IMPACT-SE Presentation
at European Parliament
November 2008
IMPACT-SE Chairman Dr. Yohanan Manor, Director of Research
Dr. Arnon Groiss and Director of Communications David Oman
presented some of its latest research at a breakfast briefing
at the European Parliament on November 11, entitled: “The
Way to Peace in the Middle East: the Role of School Education
and Cultural Tolerance through Schoolbooks.” The presentation
highlighted the contrast between the two prevailing currents
in Middle Eastern education in the area of education for
tolerance and peace, as evident in recent IMPACT-SE reports
and research: the extremist curricula of Hamas and Saudi
Arabia versus the more tolerant stream represented by Tunisian
and Israeli curricula. The presentation was followed by
a lively question and answer session attended by Members
of the European Parliament, a representative of the European
Commission, Egyptian and Lebanese representatives and various
civil society activists. Much enthusiasm was expressed by
several Members of the European Parliament over the positive
example embodied in the Tunisian curriculum, laying the
foundations for future events at the European Parliament
surrounding the concept of education for peace and tolerance
in the Middle East.
Supporting document: PowerPoint
Presentation (pdf, 297 kb)
- IMPACT-SE
at the International Conference on Anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism
in Middle Eastern Schoolbooks
November 6, 2008
IMPACT-SE Director of Research Dr. Arnon Groiss gave a presentation
entitled ‘The Jews’ Image in Current Middle
Eastern Schoolbooks’ at the International Conference
on Anti-Semitism at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies,
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, the University of West Bohemia
in Pilsen, the Czech Republic, on November 6, 2008. The
presentation, based on a decade of research by IMPACT-SE
on the schoolbooks of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and
the Palestinian Authority, points to the following grave
conclusions: a fierce anti-Jewish campaign is being waged
in Middle Eastern curricula with clear racist and even murderous
characteristics. Jews are demonized, both as a nation and
as individuals, at times by using European anti-Semitic
notions. A culture of hate towards the Jewish people is
being created in Middle Eastern schools, and one can even
say that the minds of Arab and Iranian youngsters are being
set for a new Holocaust.
Supporting document: PowerPoint
presentation (pdf, 2.52 mb)
- IMPACT-SE's Report on Iranian Textbooks Discussed on Iranian VOA Program (Video)
March 25, 2008
IMPACT-SE's Researcher Shayan Arya participated in
an hour long discussion on the popular Persian program "Round Table," produced
by Voice of America (VOA), regarding the Iranian
school curriculum and IMPACT-SE's report. Dr. Saeed Paivandi of Paris-8 University, who just published a similar report regarding Iran's educational system under the Islamic regime for the Freedom House, also participated.
- Discussion Panel on "Iranian Textbooks: Preparing Iran’s Children for Global Jihad"
Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, March 10, 2008
As debates rage about Iran’s nuclear intentions, educational textbooks may serve as one of the more candid guides for discerning this regime’s worldview and ideology. IMPACT-SE researchers, Arnon Groiss and Shayan Arya, covered the Iranian report’s detailed findings and discussed the implications for the United States and the rest of the international community.
Supporting document: PowerPoint Presentation (pdf, 1.23 mb)
- "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 is hosting this briefing
to examine religious textbooks for 7th-12th grade students in the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip.
Supporting documents:
- "Palestinian
School Books: Educating New Generations in Hate and Jihad?"
By Dr. Arnon Groiss -
May 15, 2007
CMIP has monitored the seven-year process, examining the
attitude expressed in the books to the "other" and
to peace. The findings are extremely worrying: The PA textbooks
do not educate for peace with Israel. Rather, they promote
the ideal of a violent struggle for liberation against Israel
in its integrality.
- The Testimony of an Iranian
Woman: Ms. Ghazal Omid
By Ghazal Omid - Feb. 8, 2007
On February 8, 2007, Ms. Ghazal Omid--Human Rights, Women Rights
and political activist, author of Living in Hell, and
a Shi'a Islam scholar--presented her testimony at the British
House of Commons, as an Iranian woman who had experienced the
Iranian educational system. This is the contents of her testimony.
- Conference
in French: "Les manuels scolaires palestiniens : L'enseignement
de la haine" ("Palestinian Schoolbooks: Teaching
Hate")
Dr. Yohanan Manor - Video (83 mn) - Tel-Aviv, Dec.
2006
Plan de la conférence : Les critères de lecture
des manuels ; La présentation du rapport à l'autre
(09m 57s) ;
Le contenu idéologique des ouvrages ;
Israël, responsable de tous les maux (12m 05s) ;
Une éventuelle lueur d'espoir ;
Le sionisme vu autrement (14m 28s) ;
Question n°1 :
Quel est l'impact des manuels sur la jeunesse ? (06m 11s) ; Question n°2 :
La Shoah pourrait-elle être abordée ? (07m 01s) ;
Questions n°3-4-5 :
Le Hamas et l'évolution islamiste des manuels (12m 49s)
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