Conservative parliamentarians this week attended a CFI briefing event in Parliament with Marcus Sheff from Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), who spoke to them about radicalisation in the Palestinian Authority curriculum.
This comes ahead of next week’s Westminster Hall debate on the subject, led by Jonathan Gullis MP.
Among parliamentarians to attend included: CFI Parliamentary Chairman (Commons) Rt. Hon. Stephen Crabb MP, CFI Honorary President Lord Polak CBE, CFI Vice-Chair John Howell OBE MP, CFI Officer Mary Robinson MP, Tim Loughton MP, Robert Courts MP, Christian Wakeford MP, Jonathan Gullis MP, Nicola Richards MP, and Peter Gibson MP.
Mr Sheff spoke about IMPACT-se’s extensive documenting of the glorification of terror and violence against Jews and Israel in the official Palestinian Authority (PA)-controlled media, as well as in school textbooks.
A recent expose in the Daily Mail laid bare the disturbing content of these textbooks, which promote martyrdom and incite hatred and violence against Israel.
The Daily Mail revealed that the schools where the textbooks are being used are funded by £100 million of UK aid.
Reports published by IMPACT-se in September 2019 found that the current PA school textbooks are more extreme than previous editions.
At least 31 official PA schools are named after terrorists, and three are named after Nazi collaborators, sending a clear message to Palestinian children that murderers who target Israeli civilians should be honoured.
DfID provides £20 million directly to the Palestinian Authority annually, through contributions to the salaries of teachers and other health and education public servants in the West Bank.
Palestinian teachers use the official PA curriculum, including textbooks currently under review.
