Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas
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Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education , formerly known as the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace , is a non-profit organization that monitors the content of school textbooks...
(IMPACT-SE) and the American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world...
(AJC
American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world...
). The book summarizes former analyses by IMPACT-SE of Palestinian Authority textbooks, beginning in 1998, and outlines how Palestinian school textbooks have changed or not changed under the leadership of Yassir Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas , also known by the kunya Abu Mazen , has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ticket.Elected to serve until 9 January 2009, he unilaterally...
, and Hamas
Hamas
Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
regarding the portrayal of peace and the 'Other', namely Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
.
See also
- Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School EducationInstitute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School EducationThe Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education , formerly known as the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace , is a non-profit organization that monitors the content of school textbooks...
- Palestinian textbook controversy
- Israeli textbook controversyIsraeli textbook controversyTextbooks in Israel are published in Israel by the Ministry of Education of Israel and other educational institutions.The Ministry of Education of Israel defines the curriculum of schools in Israel and is in charge of the recruitment and training of teachers...
- Israeli-Palestinian conflictIsraeli-Palestinian conflictThe Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...
- Arab-Israeli conflict