Observers say EU-funded review of Palestinian textbooks reeks of incompetence, concealment
December 25, 2020
(JNS) In a ground-breaking move and in response to the lack of change in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum and the continued insertion of anti-Semitism, hate and incitement to violence and martyrdom in its textbooks, the Norwegian parliament endorsed a cut last week in aid to the P.A.
In 2018, the United Kingdom commissioned a report on Palestinian textbooks from the Germany-based Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, which then published a report that was found to be riddled with mistakes. The European Union then decided to commission another report, due.
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That will be done before the first deliveries from the COVAX mechanism start, it was said for Tanjug in Brussels. EC spokesperson for enlargement, Ana Pisonero, explains for Tanjug that donations from the EU and COVAX are two different systems. We are working with our partners and member states to provide part of the doses that come to the EU for the Western Balkans. Specific dates for COVAX in terms of vaccine distribution are up to them to explain. They are negotiating vaccines with different manufacturers”, Ana Pisonero said. She confirmed for Tanjug that the Commission will provide the countries of the Western Balkans with additional funds for the purchase of vaccines.
The foreign minister of Germany was criticized on Monday after he expressed disapproval of the sabotaging over the weekend of.
The GEI review made serious mistakes that undermined the credibility of the report. These included analyzing the wrong textbooks and attributing Arabic-language Israeli textbooks to the PA, ignoring antisemitism and ignoring incitement to violence, martyrdom and jihad.
In a turn of events that exposes the EU’s seeming engagement in pretense, Riem Spielhaus, the head of the study at GEI, actually admitted to German daily newspaper
Taggesspiegel in October that the Israeli textbooks were indeed mistakenly included in the review.
By Israel Kasnett, JNS
In a ground-breaking move and in response to the lack of change in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum and the continued insertion of anti-Semitism, hate and incitement to violence and martyrdom in its textbooks, the Norwegian parliament endorsed a cut last week in aid to the P.A.
In 2018, the United Kingdom commissioned a report on Palestinian textbooks from the Germany-based Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), which then published a report that was found to be riddled with mistakes. The European Union then decided to commission another report, due to be completed this month, again using the GEI.