It is shameful to see so many communal organisations entertaining this false trope grounded in anti-Palestinian racism.

The notion that Palestinian textbooks incite violence against Israelis or Jews is a myth.

Read this thread for the facts https://twitter.com/ZionistFed/status/1354752173893181440

The allegation that Palestinian textbooks are full of incitement comes from IMPACT-SE, whose CEO is speaking on the panel.

Yet our own government has said that IMPACT-SE's research is "not objective in its findings and lacked methodological rigour." https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-09-07/171640

The EU also found in 2002 that IMPACT-SE (when it was known as CMIP) had mis-translated and even fabricated quotes to justify its findings. Others were taken from old Jordanian and Egyptian, rather than Palestinian, textbooks.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/misc/70923.pdf

Prof Nathan Brown, former Director of the George Washington University Institute for Middle East Studies, described CMIP’s first report as “tendentious and highly misleading”.

http://www.mideastweb.org/Democracy%20in%20the%20Palestinian%20Curriculum.pdf

The reality is that independent studies have repeatedly found no trace of incitement in Palestinian textbooks.

The US State Department officially reached the same conclusion in 2009. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/18/opinion/palestinian-textbooks-where-is-all-that-incitement.html

The largest piece of research on Palestinian textbooks found that their bias is comparable to many Israeli textbooks.

https://d7hj1xx5r7f3h.cloudfront.net/Israeli-Palestinian_School_Book_Study_Report-English.pdf

The @BoardofDeputies, @JLC_uk and other communal organisations should not be pedalling these unfounded falsehoods that serve to misrepresent Palestinians and perpetuate dangerous stereotypes.

We cannot let these myths circulate our community, inflaming anti-Palestinian racism.