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LFI director: Time for talking on hateful Palestinian textbooks is over

Posted 2 July, 2021 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Illustration from a Palestinian school textbook. Image: IMPACT-se. Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Time for talking on hateful Palestinian textbooks is over After multiple delays and much foot-dragging, the European Union has finally published the investigation into the Palestinian Authority curriculum it commissioned two…

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Analysis: UK still funds incitement in Palestinian school curriculum

Posted 1 July, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Illustration from Palestinian textbook. Credit: IMPACT-se. UK ministers have avoided making any concrete commitments to tackle incitement to violence in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum, despite the findings of a recently published independent study. What happened In a Westminster Hall debate this morning, Foreign and International Development Office minister James Duddridge avoided any firm pledges of action,…

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In Brief: UK announces it will boycott antisemitic Durban conference

Posted 22 June, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Israel
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Durban II. (UN Photo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The British government confirmed this week that it will boycott the Durban IV conference in New York over “historic concerns” about antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred. The UK will join the US, Australia and Canada in refusing to attend the event in September marking the 20th anniversary of…

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LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary on Palestinian curriculum

Posted 21 June, 2021 in Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has today written to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab following the publication of the Georg Eckert Institute's review of Palestinian school textbooks, which found that the Palestinian Authority systematically and purposefully inserts antisemitism, hatred towards Israel, and incitement to violence in textbooks…

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In Brief: Hamas terrorist tunnel found under UN-run school in Gaza

Posted 8 June, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
IDF paratroopers operate within Gaza > IDF, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has condemned the construction of a terror tunnel under a school complex it operates in the central Gaza Strip. UNRWA said that the tunnel had been found in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza, under the Zaitoun Preparatory Boys’ School “A” and Elementary Boys’…

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LFI and CFI chairs: End the myth there’s no link between extreme anti-Zionism and Jew-hate

Posted 20 May, 2021 in Antisemitism, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP and Conservative Friends of Israel chair Stephen Crabb have written the below op-ed for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. LFI chair Steve McCabe and CFI chair Stephen Crabb put aside political difference to condemn rising antisemitism…

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LFI Chair: We must suspend aid that finances hate-filled curriculum

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se Labour Friends of Israel Chair Steve McCabe MP has written for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Britain is a long-standing advocate of  a two-state solution, but its funding for these lessons in hate undermines this. We should support efforts to bring about peace, reconciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, UK aid…

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In Brief: MEPs urge EU to get tough with PA on controversial curriculum

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Photo courtesy IMPACT-se More than 20 members of the European parliament from 15 nations have urged the European Union to partially withhold funding from the PA until Ramallah makes sweeping changes to its controversial school curriculum. The new curriculum, introduced in 2017, incites violence, glorifies terrorism and contains antisemitic content. The UK government has admitted its aid…

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LFI responds to revelations that the government’s PA curriculum review has examined the wrong textbooks

Posted 14 August, 2020 in Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se LFI has expressed deep concern about the latest revelations concerning a UK government-backed review on incitement to violence in the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum.   The review appears to have mistakenly studied school books used by Israeli-Arab children, not Palestinian pupils, while three-quarters of the textbooks in an unpublished interim report are…

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In Brief: Norway halts PA education money over incitement in curriculum

Posted 10 June, 2020 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-SE Norway is withholding more than half of the money it planned to give the Palestinian Authority for education spending this year due to concerns about incitement in the curriculum. Norway is a major donor to the PA and the announcement by foreign minister Ine Eriksen Søreide follows a cross-party vote in the country's parliament last…

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