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Review of Palestinian Textbooks Launched amid British Concern Curriculum Promotes Anti-Israel Violence
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Lee Harpin - The UK government is to play a central role in a review of Palestinian school textbooks amid concern British aid money is funding a curriculum that incites violence against Israelis. The Department for International Development (DFID) announced that the German-based Georg Eckert Institute had been commissioned to produce an initial report to expedite the full review. An international group will work on the review, which is due to be concluded by September 2019. In 2017, a report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) concluded that PA textbooks encouraged "young Palestinians to acts of violence in a more extensive and sophisticated manner" and that "the curriculum's focus appears to have expanded from demonization of Israel to providing a rationale for war."