by Ethan Croft, Telegraph
Territory’s rulers ‘paving way for next Oct 7’ with school textbooks glorifying jihad , says Israeli NGO
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that recognition of a Palestinian state would “lay the groundwork for the next Oct 7”.
The Prime Minister is under pressure to reconsider the move amid concerns that Palestinian children are being radicalised.
A report by an Israeli-founded, non-profit organisation warned that the Palestinian Authority (PA), the government in the territories, was “indoctrinating” children with school textbooks that “glorify terrorism”.
It is expected that the UK would treat the PA as the sovereign government of a Palestinian state following recognition.
But the report by Impact-se (the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education) is likely to raise fears about any move to recognise a state.
Examples in the report include reading comprehension exercises describing terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians as “heroism”, maths exercises asking children to count the number of “martyrs” who died in the First Intifada, and children’s books circulated for National Reading Day depicting a suicide bomber who killed 21 Israeli civilians.
It also draws attention to the PA’s so-called “pay-for-slay” scheme, an arrangement whereby convicted terrorists are given financial rewards in proportion to the severity of their prison sentences.