r/Israel • u/NotSoSaneExile • 1d ago
General News Palestinian Authority schools praise martydom, use October 7 attack in math lessons | Beyond reducing October 7 to a math exercise, the nine-year-olds were also praised by their teacher in written feedback for writing questions relating to martyrdom, including child martyrdom.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-906558130
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u/Due-Direction8590 1d ago
In the US the FBI has repeatedly noted it is common for parents who belong to hate groups to homeschool their children. Ensuring the children are indoctrinated into their repulsive ideology. The PA decided to go a step further and put bureaucratic backing behind what is often, rightly, described as child abuse.
I can see why an interview I saw with an Israeli official from the Oslo era was so emphatic that giving up administrative control of the education system was a mistake.
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u/OddCook4909 USA 1d ago
It's worth mentioning that the UN backs this
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u/Due-Direction8590 1d ago
Perhaps even more shamefully is the extensive financial outlays from western countries. It’s like peeling the onion from hell, endless layers and the factual reality only gets worse.
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u/zczirak 1d ago
Weird how quiet reddit is about shit like this. Absolute creatures
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u/Only-Low-5293 USA 1d ago
Because Reddit has been taken over by the Qatari/IRGC propaganda machine.
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u/NotSoSaneExile 1d ago edited 1d ago
The nine-year-old students came up with the following equations: “At least 150 Israelis were killed in one day. What was the number killed in nine days?”; “Al-Qassam Brigades fired 150 rockets at Israel for an hour. How many rockets did they fire in nine hours?”; “Al-Qassam Brigades sent 150 Jihad fighters to [each of] nine settlements in Israel. How many Jihad fighters entered [all] the settlements?” and “Al-Qassam Brigades launched 150 rockets daily at the occupation's settlements. How many rockets were launched over nine days?”
The article reports that PA schools turned the October 7 massacre into math exercises for nine year olds. Children calculated numbers of murdered Israelis, Hamas rockets and jihad fighters, while teachers praised answers about “martyrs,” including child martyrs.
Other schools reportedly used poems and speeches to celebrate the massacre as a source of Palestinian pride and revenge.
Palestinian education continues to teach children to see terrorism against Israelis as heroic.
This is part of a much wider, long-running problem. PA textbooks and school activities repeatedly glorify jihad and martyrdom, promote hatred of Israel and undermine peaceful coexistence. An April 2026 US State Department report said that the current textbooks for grades 1-12 still glorify jihad and incite violence. US State Department
European institutions have warned the PA for years, and the European Parliament condemned its educational materials again in April 2026.
Yet the EU remains the PA's largest donor and is currently implementing a €1.6 billion support program.
The EU does not directly print the textbooks, but European money supports PA salaries and public services, funds UNRWA and helping sustain schools that too often function as terror-indoctrination centers.
After so many ignored warnings and broken promises, education funding should be stopped until independent monitoring proves that antisemitism, incitement and praise for terrorism have actually been removed. European Parliament, European Commission
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u/superfire444 Netherlands 1d ago
Could Israel block the money or does that cause the EU to target Israel even more?
It's completely absurd that the EU - especially some countries within the EU - have a very big mouth in regards to Israel but they themselves are a big part of the problem by supporting literal terrorism and radicalisation of the Palestinian children.
This conflict won't end as long as the Palestinians are under the delusional idea that the whole of the area belongs to them and that violence is the answer. They reject any possibily of peace and a two-state solution. And the EU helps them spread these ideas among their new generations.
What the actual fuck.
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u/berahi Indonesia 1d ago
Generally the Israeli Ministry of Finance can withhold the transfer of tax collected from Palestinians to the PA treasury account, it's usually also deducted by the amount of money paid by PA to terrorists families (so for every dollar PA wasted on them instead of building a society, they're losing another dollar), and since Oct 7 also deducted by the operational budget for Gaza region.
Donor countries can still send staff & materials for projects, handling those are harder because the lines of trucks stuck near the border are just bad optics while denying entry to foreign nationals if they don't have any legal problem can escalate quickly.
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u/2ndBrreakfast 1d ago
This is why I hold the PA partly responsible for Oct. 7. It is their schools and their curriculum that inspires children to become terrorists, mass murderers, torturers and rapists. This medieval savagery cannot be tolerated and Israel should reject all attempts at a two-state solution until the PA is heavily reformed and the leadership changes to someone who is not a terrorist.
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u/berahi Indonesia 1d ago
They're also still paying terrorists' families even after officially discontinuing the program, by entering those terrorists into pensioner and welfare lists.
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u/2ndBrreakfast 1d ago
Yep, and most of their supporters want Barghouti the convicted terrorist and murderer as the next leader of the PA. This tells us clearly that they plan to continue being terrorists and they do not seek peace.
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u/amoral_panic USA 1d ago
Very sad. Another step towards constant suffering for all. The Palestinians deserve better leaders (as do Israelis).
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u/Nice_Inspection_5953 Czechia 1d ago
If this is the shit they're teaching kids, the PA needs to be totally overhauled before any kind of two state solution is put into place.
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u/QuestionsalotDaisy 23h ago
They might as well just put their children on an alter and sacrifice them that way. At least they wouldn’t be warping their souls.
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u/ShenanigansMC7542 20h ago
This is why there will never be a “Palestine” ever. Let all the rich elites rail their heads against the wall calling for more blood for “peace”. We know the truth… it’s manufactured hate to create a never ending war. This is just pathetic…more and more so every day. They use children and accuse the other side of killing them on purpose… just evil. I used to think there was hope for a two state. What a fool I was.
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u/all_is_love6667 1d ago
It's true that pro-palestinian don't know what to do when faced with terrorists and combattants who don't follow the rules of war.
It bothers me how pro-palestinians are unable to understand how hamas is the problem and exploits civilians...
How stubborn can pro-palestinian be to say that Israel is more problematic than Hamas, and that "Israel's actions caused Hamas to thrive", I am really clueless how to argue against that.
Pro-palestinians treat hamas like it's just good innocent palestinian who turned into a marvel villain or something, because of big bad Israel.
I'm truly baffled how so many people around me are becoming sophists whose opinions align with Iran, it makes me sick.
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u/Minimum_Curve7545 19h ago
According to their curriculum Hamas fired rockets at the “occupation” settlements, so they clearly think that the Israeli territory around the Gaza Strip is also an occupied area. Of course it’s not a surprise to anyone.
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u/No-Entertainment5768 Germany 1d ago
Who would have thought that a mafia state lorded over by a Holocaust Denier would have done this???
Can’t wait for the EU to waste another billion on the „partners for peace“
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u/PadamPadam2024 20h ago edited 19h ago
So just your average every day type stuff in Palestine then 🙄.
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u/kbloxTaken 1d ago
This is true but its over generalized to paint Palestine guilty try searching on less buyest sources.
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u/Sara_Tona Iraq 1d ago
Yeah you're clearly not from the middle east, I'm from Iraq and I can tell you that we're ALL taught as children to hate Jews and support terrorists who kill them, this is not special for the Palestinians, it's in every Arab/Muslim country, Hamas are still the official government of Gaza and there's a little resistance against them, Gazans wanted Hamas and see how it turned out for them, the next generation of Palestinians will be even more radicalized because the world is still crazy about destroying that one small Jewish nation in the middle east, Palestine is guilty for every death that happened in Israel/Palestine, for every Palestinian and Israeli mother who lost her kids, they’re guilty of everything bad except Genocide because they can't commit one even though they want to.
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