Palestine in Israeli School Books: Nurit Peled-Elhanan

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Comment by Tim Upham on March 16, 2013 at 4:51pm

It is not the textbooks in Gaza, but the state-controlled television there.  That is what is offering the hateful material.  The only thing the textbooks show, is all of Israel as Palestine.  This seems ironic, when Hamas says it recognizes the pre-1967 borders.  The borders with who?

Comment by Sussan on February 3, 2012 at 12:09pm

Palestinians have only recently acquired their own text books. The books you Ghazi, refer to are either Jordanian or Egyptian, which was all the Palestinians could afford.

It is NOT possible to mistake Egyptian and Jordanian text books for Palestinian books.  Whoever said the Palestinian textbooks contained racist material was deliberately spreading propaganda, as are you, if you continue with this lie.

 

Comment by Ghazi al-Galini on February 2, 2012 at 7:36am

Incidentally, the Israeli textbooks of course eulogize the Israeli military, one which has fought, suffered and saved the nation from the twisted designs of Arab force.

Comment by Ghazi al-Galini on February 2, 2012 at 7:34am

Please have Nurit review the image of Jews as posited in the schoolbooks of Palestinian Arab children in both the Westbank and Gaza as well as in the Muslim countries of the Mideast.  Nurit only has to review these images by checking Palestinian Media Watch.  The image of Jews is one of absolute hatred, sickening and defiling.  Also, in which schoolbook is Israel actually entered as its own country?  I didn't think so.  The problem with these altogether liberal left correct perspectives is that Israel is always labelled and despised whereas little or no criticism is made of the Palestinian element.  Feel good, Nurit? 

Comment by Stewart Mills on January 13, 2012 at 7:47pm

Great post Narine!

Nurit is doing such important work in helping change the psycholgy of a nation.  Every state needs to go through this process.  The pivotal moment in Australian educational history for me was when teachers could talk about invasion instead of (or along with) the term settlement.  This occurred in 1988 which commemorated 200 years after invasion began by Europeans of Australia.

On a related note we were fortunate to have Nurit's brother Miko Peled come to Australia.  His new book the General's Son I am sure will be an important contribution to presenting a different view of the Palestinian-Israeli story.

http://mikopeled.wordpress.com/

Regards

Stewart