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on young minds. A report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education reveals that the Palestinian Authority school curriculum "utilises
a variety of tools to convince children—mostly boys—to risk their lives and die as martyrs".
For example, take the naming by the Palestinian Authority of schools, summer camps and sports tournaments after terrorist murderers and Nazi collaborators. At least 20 PA schools in the West Bank and Gaza are named after terrorists, and three after Nazi collaborators.
In 2018, the Department for International Development claimed ignorance on whether any of the thousands of teachers and public servants whose salaries it pays work
in schools named after these terrorists. Outside the classroom, too, children are subjected to a barrage of vicious antisemitic propaganda. Children’s programmes on official PA TV feature children reciting
poems calling Jews “barbaric monkeys”, “the sons of pigs” and the “most evil among creations”.
The Palestinian Authority school curriculum ‘utilises a variety of tools to convince children— mostly boys—to risk their lives and die as martyrs’.
According to the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, or IMPACT-se, the reformed school curriculum for primary and secondary schoolchildren introduced last year is “more radical than ever, purposefully and strategically encouraging Palestinian children to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom”.
Five-year-olds are taught the word for “martyr” as part
of their first lessons in Arabic, 11-year-olds are taught that martyrdom and jihad are “the most important meanings
of life”, and teenagers are taught that those who sacrifice themselves will be rewarded with “72 virgin brides in paradise”.
The United States has made major steps under the current administration targeting Palestinian terror payments and CUFI believes the UK should also place greater scrutiny on how UK-taxpayer funds are being used.
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