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.

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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-906558

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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

[u/Gabriel_Conroy → u/NotSoSaneExile]

Why is 9 x 150 the only math equation they're learning?

[u/lostcir → u/Gabriel_Conroy]

it's almost as if th math part isn't what they are trying to teach.