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Understanding the conflict
Schooling
1. Israeli Textbooks and Children's Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and Arabs
by Maureen Meehan
'Israeli school textbooks as well as children's storybooks, according to recent academic studies and surveys, portray Palestinians and Arabs as "murderers," "rioters," "suspicious,"and generally backward and unproductive. Direct delegitimization and negative stereotyping of Palestinians and Arabs are the rule rather than the exception in Israeli schoolbooks.'
2. Abstract of 'Democracy, History, and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum'
by Prof. Nathan Brown
3. Comparing Palestinian and Israeli Textbooks
by Ruth Firer and Sami Adwan
Originally published in CG News, March 28, 2002
c. 1,500 words
4. Second class: Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel's Schools
187-page report, based on Human Rights Watch investigations at twenty-six Arab and Jewish schools and on nationwide statistics compiled by the Israeli government.
"Government-run Arab schools are a world apart from government-run Jewish schools. In virtually every respect, Palestinian Arab children get an education inferior to that of Jewish children, and their relatively poor performance in school reflects this."
There is also a summary press release
5. A textbook case of Israeli propaganda
Ali AbunimahThe Jordan Times, July 4, 2002
c.1,400 words
6. Three myths
from the Australian Jewish Democratic Society website
'The following 3 items of information should be of great interest to all. We wish that Australian Jews, in the comfort of their armchair Zionism could be as open and as prepared to question Israel's sometimes flawed past as these Israelis are able to!'
The three items referred to are: comments on a front-page NY Times story that Israel's History Textbooks Replace Myths with Facts (8/14/99); a book review from Yediot Achranot of a new book from the history division of the IDF; and an article by Ethan Bronner, describes how new Israeli Grade School History text books - not used in the religious schools - are replacing the myths of early Israel.
c. 3,700 words in all
7. Schooling at gunpoint: Palestinian children's learning environment in war-like conditions
The Ramallah/al-Bireh/Beitunia urban centre
Rita Giacaman, Anita Abdullah, Rula Abu Safieh and Luna Shamieh
1 December 2002
A scholarly study of the effects of the occupation which concludes that: 'Contrary to what is being transmitted by the Israeli propaganda machine, the Israeli army's so called "targeted attacks" in fact primarily affected the civilian population and their institutions, especially children.'
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