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Titolo: Dissenters on Panel Blast Study Claiming Palestinian Textbooks Don't Vilify Jews

http://forward.com/articles/170490/dissenters-on-panel-blast-study-claiming-palestini/?p=all#ixzz2JyvFIM6a
 
 
Dissenters on Panel Blast Study Claiming Palestinian Textbooks Don't 
Vilify Jews
 
Prof Calls Report 'Premature,' Others Blindsided By Release
 
By Nathan Jeffay
Published February 04, 2013.
 
Controversy quickly engulfed a new study that said Palestinian textbooks 
do not incite hatred for Jews with Israel blasting the report — with 
some members of the report’s advisory panel claiming they were 
blindsided by its release.
 
Bar Ilan University Talmud professor Daniel Sperber, a member of the 
panel, slammed the decision to release the report when 
Israeli-Palestinian relations are strained and when Israel is in-between 
governments. “These are tense times in the Middle East and the idea [of 
the study] was not to increase tensions,” he told the Forward.
 
He added that the release was “premature” and that some of the steps 
that were supposed to be completed before the information went public 
were not. Sperber, who was among the advisory panel members who said 
they didn’t receive the report, also suggested that as far as the 
methodology of the report is concerned “considerable areas [are] 
certainly problematic”.
 
Several other panel members said they had not seen the study, and were 
shocked to read about its release.
 
Jerusalem reacted furiously to a U.S.-funded study on Israeli and 
Palestinian textbooks, which was made public this morning.
 
The study cleared the Palestinians of demonizing Jews in school 
textbooks and contends that both Israeli and Palestinian teachers use 
classroom materials that distort the history of the Middle East conflict.
 
A statement from Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry claimed that the 
study’s “approach methodology and findings are highly problematic and 
strongly misleading.” It claimed that the study “omits important 
examples of incitement and delegitimization found in official PA 
textbooks” and that it “provides a highly-distorted depiction of the 
PA’s systematic efforts to educate and indoctrinate Palestinian children 
to hate, violence and non-acceptance of Israel’s existence.”
 
The Education Ministry denounced the findings in a press release, 
calling the study “biased, unprofessional and significantly lacking in 
objectivity,” adding: “The attempt to create a parallel between the 
Israeli education system and the Palestinian education system is 
completely unfounded and lacks any basis in reality.” The ministry 
claimed that the results of the study showed that “the decision not to 
cooperate with [it] was correct.”
 
Bruce Wexler, the Yale University psychiatry professor who designed the 
study, lashed back at Israel’s response to the report, singling out 
Israel’s Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
 
“Frankly I think that the minister of education is a great example of 
the power of these unilateral narratives,” Wexler said in an interview 
with the Forward. “That man cannot see beyond the blindness that has 
come in to his mind.”
 
Wexler added: “By the way, national leaders who have those blind spots 
like he does because of their national narrative make for poor and 
dangerous national leaders.”
 
Mohammed Dajani, a professor at Al Quds University in the West Bank and 
member of the study’s advisory panel, claimed that things have moved 
from a situation in the mid-1990s when the Palestinians refused to 
acknowledge problems in the textbooks they were using to one where 
Israeli authorities are in a “state of denial” about their schoolbooks.
In contrast to the cold Israeli reaction, the office of Palestinian 
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad released a statement saying that he 
“expresses his satisfaction with a main finding of a study … that 
confirms that Palestinian textbooks do not contain any form of blatant 
incitement, which is based on contempt towards the ‘other’.”
 
The statement said that he “issued his instructions to the Ministry of 
Education to study the report thoroughly and to use its conclusions as a 
guide in the ongoing efforts to develop school curriculums aimed at 
keeping up to date with developments and achieving total harmony with 
our people’s deeply rooted principles of coexistence, tolerance, 
justice, and human dignity, which constitute a principal component of 
the system of moral values on which the independent state of Palestine 
will be established.” He called on Israel to do the same.
 
Despite the attempts by Wexler to maintain an academic tone at the press 
conference, another of the professors who led the research, Sami Adwan 
of Bethlehem University, veered in to Palestinian advocacy, prompting 
Wexler to react irritably and attempt to shush him. Adwan argued that in 
view of the hardships of life under occupation the mildness of 
Palestinian textbooks is “amazing.”
 
“Talking about the atrocities that Palestinians are living under it’s 
unimaginable,” he said. “I would invite all Israeli Jews to come and 
live with us for one day.”
 
Adwan commented to the Forward that he believed that the Palestinian 
textbooks actually lacked content about the difficulties that 
Palestinians have faced in the conflict, which should be described more 
“because you have the right to teach your own history.”
 
Wexler, who is Jewish, spoke of his personal sadness at Israel’s 
non-cooperation with the study and dismissal of its findings.
 
“When you’re born in 1947 you grow up reading Exodus and with Golda Meir 
and Abba Eban and giving money for trees to grow Israel, and you develop 
a deep connection with the State of Israel,” said Wexler. “On a personal 
level it’s very hard, painful. And it’s painful to think that the 
Israeli government would rather hold on, it seems, to a propaganda point 
that they know to be false than they would to get real change in the 
Palestinian books.”
 
He added that it was frustrating to watch Israel dig in its heels on an 
issue that could lead to positive change.
 
“We have people lining up to use their influence to make the Palestinian 
books better,” he said. “It’s the Israeli government that’s threatening 
to undermine the validity of the study that other people want to use to 
get Israel on the maps of the Palestinian books. That’s frustrating.”
-- 
Namib
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(Tom Kromer)

 issue that could lead to positive change.
 
 
il report si trova qui
http://d7hj1xx5r7f3h.cloudfront.net/Israeli-Palestinian_School_Book_Study_Report-English.pdf
 
 
e vediamoli, questi testi
 
“Long ago, we were forbidden to leave the yard and especially not to
go for walks. The Arabs would snipe on the roads. To bring the milk,
two drivers would come in a convoy of trucks. But once the Arabs shot
at the car bringing the milk and hit Uri the driver. Uri’s grave was
dug at night since the kibbutz cemetery was too close to the Arab
village, near the yard of Abu Salah. In the yard, Arab “gangs” were
based who would go out from time to time to attack traffic on the
roads” (State religious schools, Open the Gate: Anthology for 6th
Grade.(Grade 6, p.305, LP1254 ,[פתחו את השער: מקראה לכיתה ו]
 
c'e' qualcosa di sbagliato? di inaccurato?
 
nell'equivalente palestinese, invece, si racconta che
 
“Palestine's ancient history saw the entry of the children of Israel
led by Joshua son of Nun in the 12th century BC, and they fought the
Palestinian Canaanites. In the last third of the 11th century BC, Saul
son of Kish (Talut) became leader of the children of Israel, and
fought the Palestinians, who were led by Goliath, who were able to
kill him and his sons. At the end of the 11th century BC, after his
death, the prophet David son of Jesse became leader of the children of
Israel, and continued fighting the Palestinians and the Canaanites,
founding the kingdom on part of the Palestinians' land under his
leadership...” (Palestinian schools, History of Palestine: Modern and
Contemporary [ الحديث فلسطين تاريخوالمعاصر], Grade 11, Part 1, 2008, p.
9, LP1004).
 
insomma, che i cananei erano palestinesi. E questo e' perlomeno
inaccurato.
 
Ma andiamo a vedere questo:
 
“Britain sought the Jews' help to achieve their imperialist
aspirations, and so the Jews began migrating to Palestine... but as
calls intensified in Europe to settle the Jews in Palestine, some
Jewish organizations began to appear in support of colonizing the Holy
Land...” (Palestinian schools, History of Palestine: Modern and
Contemporary [والمعاصر الحديث فلسطين تاريخ], Grade 11, Part 1, 2008,
p. 58, LP1023)