Textbook

Iran’s textbooks promote violent martyrdom, normalize militarization, IMPACT-se finds

IMPACT-se says Iran’s Khomeinist ideology is deeply embedded in schools, with textbooks reflecting the regime’s political values, narratives, and agendas.

Afghan refugee schoolboys wearing protective face masks look on as they holds their schoolbooks while sitting in a classroom at the Farhang school in the first day of the new academic year in southern Tehran on November 1, 2021.
A slogan reading "Outside the Jewish Snakes" is written outside a Jewish synagoue in the central Greek town of Trikala, some 300 kilometers north of Athens, on December 31, 2019

Greek textbooks discuss Judaism, Holocaust in detail, but fall short on antisemitism

 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the U.S.-Arab Quint Meeting with representatives from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Authority, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 29, 2024.

US State Department blasts Qatar for antisemitism in textbooks, citing IMPACT-se

Shi’ite fighters pose with a black flag belonging to the Islamic State.

Iraqi school textbooks scrutinized over antisemitism, Shi’ization


Iran using Yemen's education system to glorify jihad - IMPACT-se

The report "constitutes one of the most concerning of IMPACT-se’s assessments of Middle Eastern curricula"

Front covers of Jihad magazine.

UNRWA 'mistakenly' gave Palestinian kids textbooks calling for jihad

One Arabic grammar booklet features phrases like “Jihad is one of the doors to Paradise.” Another reads that “The Palestinians are lions in fighting the enemies.”

A Palestinian boy wearing a Hamas headband.

UNRWA's education filled with hate, calls to jihad and violence - report

Israel is demonized for exerting a negative influence on the entire Middle East region.

A Palestinian boy wearing a Hamas headband.

Saudi Arabia textbooks revised to be more tolerant - study

Many issues that were present in previous additions of the books, some of which have been present for many years, have been either removed or at least reduced in their severity.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

New Palestinian curriculum shows no improvements, antisemitism remains

Palestinian children are still being taught to glorify martyrdom and jihad against Israel.

Palestinian students arrive to their first day of school in Nablus, West Bank ,on September 6, 2020.

EU report into PA hate education 'unsatisfactory,' UK MP, NGO tell 'Post'

A report jointly undertaken by the EU and UK into hate education is both overdue and riddled with errors, NGO IMPACT-se has found.

A Palestinian girl looks out of a classroom window as she attends a lesson on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip

PA announces change in school curricula after pressure European Parliament

A number of national governments have condemned the inclusion of incitement to violence and antisemitic materials in school textbooks used in Palestinian schools.

A Palestinian girl looks out of a classroom window as she attends a lesson on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip

European Parliament condemns PA textbooks that promote hate and violence

Money allocated for textbooks should “be used for drafting and teaching curricula which reflects UNESCO standards of peace, tolerance, coexistence, and non-violence,” the resolution said.

Palestinian kids display their textbooks

The lingering ghost of Nazi medical texts in modern Israeli medicine

The textbook is widely hailed as a masterpiece, and the accuracy and detail of its descriptions and illustrations stand out even today.

Illustration from Pernkopf Topographic Anatomy of Man

Online lessons for Palestinian children still teaching hate

A lesson on Newtonian physics used the Palestinian fighters using slingshots to target IDF soldiers as an example of elastic energy.

Palestinian children holding textbooks showing the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.