UNRWA Education 2013: Seven minute rendition of films taken in UNRWA schools, to be screened at the Knesset on Monday Feb 24. Thanks David Bedein of Israel Resource Review
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Journalists are cordially invited to a Knesset briefing hosted by MK Yoni Chetboun on the subject of the latest studies of the education curriculum of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which educates 492,000 Palestinian students in UNRWA schools.
There will be expert presentations delivered by:
Dr. Arnon Groiss, a member of the Advisory Council on the Israeli-Palestinian schoolbook research project, who has translated and evaluated the UNRWA curriculum who will address the subject of: “The Right of Return and the Armed Struggle” – as taught in UNRWA schools
Former Labor MK, Dr. Einat Wilf, who has focused her research on the role of UNRWA in perptuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will address the subject of “Reforming UNRWA’s Practices on the Path to Peace”
Consuls and diplomatic representatives from all the donor countries to UNRWA will be in attendance.
The event will take place at 1400 on Monday 24th February. It will take place in the Shprintzak Hall, on the first floor of the Knesset.
RSVP: Center For Near East Policy Research, tel. 02-6234556 or [email protected]
Hamas’ education ministry recently denounced the use of UN textbooks in Gaza’s schools, saying the materials “contaminate the minds of our dear students” and deceive them into accepting peace with Israel.
“There is a tremendous focus on the peaceful resistance as the only tool to achieve freedom and independence,” Motesem al-Minawi, spokesman of the Hamas Education Ministry, complained about the latest UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) textbooks for high school students in Gaza.
Gazan children learn from Hamas textbooks that deny Israel’s existence
Earlier this month, Hamas called on Gaza’s teachers not to use the UN’s materials in their classrooms, saying they “do not fit the culture of the Palestinian society and are meant to brainwash Palestinian students and convince them to accept the Zionist enemy.”
The terrorist group views the United Nations’ materials as an affront to Palestinian society, saying they ignore “Palestinian cultural mores.” In the words of al-Minawi, the textbooks are “completely detached from the reality of an Arab Muslim Palestinian student.” Hamas especially objected to the inclusion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in UN textbooks, characterizing parts of the document as a violation of Islamic Law.
Girls at a school in Gaza. Those over the age of nine are forbidden from interacting with male students and teachers.
According to the Education Ministry, the materials “contaminate the minds of our dear students.”
The group’s recent reactions are just one example of its efforts to indoctrinate Gaza’s youth with messages of hatred and violence. Last month, 13,000 young people officially graduated from Hamas’ youth paramilitary camps, designed to encourage Gazan teens “to follow in the footsteps of the suicide martyrs.” In November 2013, the terrorist organization introduced new textbooks that denied Israel’s existence and called Jewish holy sites “fabricated”.
Teenagers participate in Hamas’ youth terror programs
As Hamas complains about the assistance it receives from the UN, it continues to neglect the needs of Gaza’s civilians. Of the 1.7 million people living in the Gaza Strip, about 1.2 million receive education benefits, medical care and socioeconomic support from UNRWA. Hamas, which supports the remaining third of Gaza’s population, consistently neglects the needs of Gaza’s civilians, using its funds to expand terrorist infrastructure and manufacture weapons.
