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Antisemitic EU Sponsored Palestinian Textbooks: the EU Should Take Action!

  MEPs raise concerns on the incitements to violence, terrorism, and antisemitism in Palestinian schoolbooks in the disputed areas. A group of 32 members of Parliament addressed a letter to EC President Ursula von der Leyen in which they point at problematic content present in educational materials that are used in Palestinian schools. Their call is strengthened by an adopted text in the EP which condemns the textbooks in which incitements to violence as well as hate and antisemitism are found, as several studies reported. The reoccurrence is unacceptable and ongoing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) have not achieved much. The European Commission and President Von der Leyen are urged to include conditionality on funds to the PA, if necessary changes in textbooks are not made. Furthermore, the letter criticizes the Commission for failing to reject a controversial report by Amnesty International that characterizes Israel an apartheid state .