PA calls on UN to monitor ‘incitement’ in Israeli curriculum

Israel security forces speaking to Arab-Israeli children during a school workshop [Wikipedia]

The Palestinian Authority called on the UN on Tuesday to monitor incitement in the Israeli curriculum, Safa has reported. Education Minister Sabri Saidam announced this during a meeting with the Deputy UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Piper, in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Saidam asked Piper to set up a UN commission specifically for this purpose. He said that it is necessary following similar claims by the Israelis about the curriculum used by the Palestinians.

Palestinian Minister of Education, Sabri Saidam, speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 11, 2016 [Shadi Hatem/Apaimages]

The minister briefed the UN official on the findings of a workshop which looked at this issue. He stressed the importance of affording “urgent protection” to Palestinian schools in occupied Jerusalem, where Palestinian identity is “subject to Israelisation, Judaisation and distortion.”

Other items on the agenda included the current challenges facing the education sector, as well as the plans of the PA education ministry to utilise all political and diplomatic efforts to monitor Israel’s “violations” against Palestinian education.

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