Textbook

Syrian textbooks show pan-Arab content replaced by Islamist ideology, IMPACT-se finds

This Islamization of knowledge extends deeply across subjects, targeting foundational scientific theories like evolution, the Big Bang, and biological development.

|ByALEX CARSON
Schoolchildren attend class at the Zamalka mixed school on April 16, 2025 in the village of Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria; Illustrative.
Jordanian pupils return to school in the capital Amman, on February 7, 2021; Illustrative.

Jordanian school textbooks contain antisemitic, anti-Zionist themes, IMPACT-se finds

IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff described the findings as "concerning," particularly due to Jordan's status as a "key Western ally and one of Israel’s longest-standing peace partners."

|ByAARON GLICK
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.

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.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
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

Greek textbooks give limited attention to local Jewish history and contributions to Greek society. Even though they include Jewish history and misfortunes, the books leave antisemitism behind.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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.

MAY 14, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

MAY 1, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
Palestinian children holding textbooks showing the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

British history textbook withdrawn over anti-Israeli bias

Conflict in the Middle East, 1945-95 has been withdrawn by Hodder after UK Lawyers for Israel found a number of inaccuracies and biases within the text.

APRIL 28, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
A JEWISH solider stands guard outside a building days after the British Mandate ended in 1948

UK school textbook asks how creation of Israel was cause of 9/11 attacks

Publisher acknowledges problem, withdraws book from sale

FEBRUARY 20, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
An empty classroom (illustrative).

Palestinian, Saudi Arabian textbooks demonize Jews, Israel – studies

Two reports highlight how extremism and anti-Jewish hatred is taught to youth in the Middle East; Saudis show improvement since last report.

FEBRUARY 12, 2020ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Palestinian boy Zain Idrees attends a lesson inside a classroom in a school, in Hebron, in the West Bank April 25, 2019

Jerusalem deputy mayor to UK: Don't fund anti-Israel Palestinian textbooks

UNRWA schools’ curriculum, designed by the Palestinian Authority, “perpetuates incitement, antisemitism and glorification of martyrdom,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum said.

JANUARY 14, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

Norwegian parliament tells government to cut funding to PA over textbooks

Ruling coalition in Norwegian parliament angered over references to violence, martyrdom and terror found in Palestinian Authority school textbooks.

DECEMBER 6, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Norwegian flags flutter at Karl Johans street in Oslo, Norway May 31, 2017.

Back to school: What we teach our children

Both Israel and Palestine are guilty of the crime of omission. We teach almost nothing about the other people living on this land.

AUGUST 22, 2019ByGERSHON BASKIN
‘BOTH ISRAEL and Palestine are guilty of the crime of omission. We teach almost nothing about the other people living on this land.’

Confronting UNRWA education antisemitism at the UN

UNRWA never questions whether PA schoolbooks should be used by a UN agency that must adhere to the core principles of the United Nations.

AUGUST 22, 2019ByARNON GROISS, DAVID BEDEIN
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl attends a news conference at the end of a summit, to address Palestinian UNWRA funding crisis, at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy March 15, 2018.