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Norwegian Parliament Tells Government to Cut Funding to PA over Textbooks
(Jerusalem Post) The ruling coalition in the Norwegian parliament announced on Dec. 5 that it will instruct the government to "reduce or withhold financial support to the Palestinian Authority if they do not provide satisfactory improvements in school materials within a reasonable time." Norway is a major funder of the PA Ministry of Education. The decision was due to "examples of content in the school books that include references to violence, martyrdom and terror. The coalition considers this to be devastating to the peace process and the development of democracy in the region, as well as being an expression of irresponsible pedagogy, and finds it unacceptable that Norwegian funds support a school system that promotes such destructive values."