PA adopts textbook, banned in Israel, offering both sides' narratives

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Palestinian Education Ministry's adoption of book marks first time Israeli position is presented to West Bank schoolchildren.
By Or Kashti

The Palestinian Authority's Education Ministry approved the use of a history textbook that offers the central narratives of both Palestinians and the Zionist movement, marking the first time that the accepted Israeli position is being presented to schoolchildren in the West Bank.

The textbook, which has been banned from use by the Israeli Education Ministry, is the result of a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Swedish collaboration to promote coexistence through education. It will be taught in two high schools near Jericho, the Palestinian Education Ministry said.

Next week, the Education Ministry is scheduled to summon the principal of a Sderot area high school for "clarification" after he had permitted the use of the textbook by students in a special supplementary educational course.

Aharon Rothstein, the head of the Sha'ar Hanegev high school, may be reprimanded for allowing students to reference a textbook entitled "Learning the Historical Narrative of the Other," a project initiated by Prof. Dan Bar-On of Ben-Gurion University and Prof. Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University.

"Unfortunately, the Palestinians are further along than the Israeli Education Ministry when it comes to acknowledging the other side of the conflict," said an official involved in administering the textbook in the Sha'ar Hanegev school. "While approved the project, here they are summoning the principal for clarifications. This is a highly embarrassing situation."

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/pa-adopts-textbook-banned-in-israel-offering-both-sides-narratives-1.318307

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1. I thought the contents of Palestinian textbooks was a bunring issue for some folk...

I recall there's been many long threads about the subject so I wonder why this OP isn't getting the same attention? ;)

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2. self-delete (n/t)

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3. Oh no they didn't.

Haaretz is flat wrong. Or lying (which wouldn't be the first time). The PA denies doing any such thing.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=323091

Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education official denied on Monday approving a textbook which teaches schoolchildren the Zionist and Palestinian narrative.

A member of the PA ministry's curriculum committee Thwarwat Zaid rebuffed a report in Israeli daily Haaretz that the textbook had been approved and said the committee neither knew of the book nor read it.

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4. tell us which Israeli are using the textbook?

I notice you left that part out why?

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5. Oh yes they did...

I'd take what the Ministry itself says over one individual....