Posted on 11/02/2023 9:43:35 AM PDT by Milagros
The report, which would be publicly available, would cover "textbooks, leaflets, pamphlets, magazines, and other instructional materials." Palestinian boys raise their hands at a school in the Gaza Strip supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in September 2011. Credit: U.N. Photo/Shareef Sarhan.Palestinian boys raise their hands at a school in the Gaza Strip supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in September 2011. Credit: U.N. Photo/Shareef Sarhan.
(November 2, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would require the U.S. secretary of state to issue an annual public report on teaching materials “in schools in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority or located in Gaza and controlled by any other entity.”
“Among other topics, the report must address (1) whether the materials used encourage violence or intolerance toward other nations or ethnic groups, (2) the steps the Palestinian Authority is taking to reform such materials and (3) whether U.S. foreign assistance is used to fund the dissemination of the offending materials,” per H.R.3266, the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act.
The House passed the bill, which Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) introduced with Reps. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and David Trone (D-Md.), on Nov. 1.
The legislation, which drew 30 more co-sponsors, heads next to the Senate.
If passed, it would require the U.S. State Department to produce an annual report on the “textbooks, leaflets, pamphlets, magazines and other instructional materials” used in Palestinian schools.
Textbooks that the Palestinian Authority uses in Judea and Samaria “include graphics portraying violence against Israeli soldiers, positive portrayals of individuals who have committed attacks against citizens of Israel and references to Palestinian efforts to target the ‘Zionists,'” according to the bill.
“P.A. textbooks are used at schools sponsored by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) because UNRWA schools use the textbooks of the host government,” the bill added.
A U.S. Government Accountability Office 2018 report found that Palestinian schools use “inaccurate and misleading maps of the region and include militaristic, adversarial imagery and content that incite hatred,” according to the bill.
“The Department of State raised with Palestinian officials the objectionable content in textbooks, including a specific math problem using the number of Palestinian casualties in the First and Second Intifadas,” per the bill. “UNRWA, in its review of the textbooks, identified content not aligned with United Nations values, the majority of which content related to neutrality or bias issues, including issues related to maps and references to Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.”
“It is the sense of Congress that the Palestinian Authority has not sufficiently eliminated content and passages encouraging violence or intolerance toward other countries or ethnic groups from the curriculum used in their schools,” the bill added.
Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America applauded the bill’s passage in the House.
“This bill takes on a great deal more urgency following the Oct. 7 massacre,” stated Marcus Sheff, CEO of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.
“Let’s be crystal clear: This modern-day pogrom was conducted with relish by thousands, with the majority likely graduates of UNRWA education in Gaza,” he added. “Where did they learn to ‘cut the necks of the enemy’? Where were they taught that ‘Jews spread corruption which will lead to their annihilation’? More than half of UNRWA’s budget is earmarked for education. No decent society can continue paying for this horror.”
Ahead of the vote, Sherman, one of the bill’s original sponsors, asked how the horror of Oct. 7 happened. “It occurs when generations are raised to hate, to kill, to behead, to murder, and it is a product of the schools that we have seen for decades on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,” the California congressman said.
‘Framework for cooperation’
“We should not be surprised that there is therefore significant support for the Hamas doctrine—from the River to the Sea, all Jews must be killed,” he said. “That is their position. That is what holds their organization together.”
“And I know the scenes that come now from Gaza are horrific. People say, ‘Let’s stop the fighting. Let’s have a ceasefire.’ Well, what would happen then? We don’t have to wonder, because just today Ghazi Hamad, a high-ranking official of Hamas, said exactly what would happen,” Sherman said. “He said, ‘We will repeat Oct. 7 one, two, three, four, five times, as many times as it takes until Israel is annihilated.’ That’s what happens if we have a ceasefire unless we have the kind of ceasefire that we should have. One in which Hamas releases all the hostages and disarms. Then we can have a ceasefire.”
The congressman noted that U.S. tax dollars provide more than half of the support for UNRWA schools, while oil-rich Arab states pay only a small portion.
“When we resumed funding for UNRWA in 2021, it was with the understanding that these schools would change, and we reached the 2021 framework for cooperation,” he said. “So far, not so good. … Education for terrorism has continued.”
We will never see the real materials, if anything is provided it will be an utter lie and not the real propaganda used to create the hate from birth in Palestine’s children.
How absurd.
I’ve got a better idea. If you need this is a law, just don’t give them any money. I don’t remember the Japanese getting subsidies for Arisaka rifles in World War II. I don’t remember Nazi German racial theory teachers getting YS subsidies.
The Palestinians could just use material from any USA college course covering Critical Theory, Decolonization and Israeli Settler Occupation.
The USS Olympia is a museum ship in Philadelphia. It is rotting away there in the Delaware river. It hasn’t seen a dry dock in 80 years. Rust stains drip down the white hull. Wood decks are gone replaced with some kind of spongy paving. They have considered towing it to sea and signing her for a reef. This is a great white fleet era ship. She fired the opening shots in the Spanish American war in Manila bay. She brought home the unknown soldier from World War I.
She desperately needs $20 million of dry dock work. The US government won’t do it. But we have 150 million to give to Hamas in 2022.
We paid for those hang gliders and rockets and their chow.
Yep, We will get fake material that no one would find offensive while the radical jihad indoctrination material will actually be used. What does the House think will happen?
what a joke - cya time for Congress - the cure: yank the $. again.
Too little too late after Biden gave so much money to bloody pay-for-skay.
Sure
Giving these savages one thin dime of American taxpayer money should be a felony punishable by life in prison.
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They have been indoctrinated with exterminate all Jews from birth.
Death 101, How to love wearing bomb vests, 1000 ways to kill Jews, Special treats for Christians, Hindus an Pagans, Death insurance payout for Moms.
Never a group of people so unwilling to take care of themselves.
The US government should not be paying for textbooks here, there or anywhere.
If they are looking for where to start, they need look no further than the Quran. Now that’s a real conundrum. How do you ban the primary protagonist’s text? Talk about Nazi-styled hate, it’s all right there in their Book. Why do you think they behave the way they do?
More feel-goodism nonsense. How about introducing a bill to STOP GIVING THEM MONEY, period! And while you’re at it — U.S. out of the U.N., U.N out of the U.S!!!
since we have seen this movie with Israel/Gaza before, the Ds will push aid to rebuild it post-Israeli victory. the time is now to pressure representatives that this route is a dead-end. i pester my rep every week on just this issue. on X. each time i get more views.
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