"Complete the following blanks spaces with the appropriate word: The Zionist enemy - - [attacked] - - civilians with its aircraft.

[Our Arabic Language, Part 2 for Third Grade #523 p..9]

· "Why do the Jews hate Muslim unity and want to cause division among them? Give an example of the evil attempts of the Jews, from events happening today."

[Islamic Education for Seventh Grade p. 19]

· "The Jews … have killed and evicted Muslim and Christian inhabitants of Palestine, whose inhabitants are still suffering oppression and persecution under racist Jewish administration."

[Islamic Education for Ninth Grade # 589 p. 182]

· "Who is the thief who has torn our homeland?"

[Our Arabic Language for Sixth Grade Part One #553 p. 15]

· "Write in your exercise book: An event showing the fanaticism of the Jews in Palestine against Muslims or Christians."

[Islamic Education for Ninth Grade p. 182]

· "One must beware of the Jews, for they are treacherous and disloyal."

[Islamic Education for Ninth Grade p. 79]

A section on Zionism is entitled: "Zionist Greed."

['Modern Arab History and Contemporary Problems, Part Two, for Tenth Grade #613 p. 49]

Even racism is defined through the Jews, while Nazism and Zionism are equated:
· "Racism: Mankind has suffered from this evil both in ancient as well as in modern times, for, indeed, Satan has, in the eyes of many people, made their evil actions appear beautiful... Such a people are the Jews…"

[ Islamic Education for Eighth Grade p. 95]

· The clearest examples of racist belief and racial discrimination in the world are Nazism and Zionism.

[The New History of the Arabs and the World, P. 123]

Modern ideologies and their effect on the Arab Nation (6 sections)
· Section 2: Understanding the racist and aggressive character of the Zionist Movement.
Section 6: Summary of the similarity between Nazism, Fascism and Zionism.

[The New History of the Arabs and the World, P. 92]

At times, the hateful portrayal is based on Islamic sources. The children are taught to apply the traditional narratives to hateful teachings regarding Jews and Israelis today. Five examples:

· "I learn from this lesson: I believe that the Jews are the enemies of the Prophets and the believers."

[Islamic Education, Part Two, for Fourth Grade #531 p. 67]

· "From the Uhud expedition… a number of lessons can be learned…: Treachery and disloyalty are character traits of the Jews and therefore one should beware of them."

[Islamic Education for Ninth Grade #589 p. 87]

· "The Jews adopted a position of hostility and deception towards the new religion. They called Muhammad a liar and denied him, they fought against his religion in all ways and by all means, a war that has not yet ended until today, and they conspired with the hypocrites and the idolaters against him and they are still behaving in the same way…"

[Islamic Education for Seventh Grade p. 125]

· "In many cases these Jews acted according to their known cunning and deceit, and they fomented wars [between Arab tribes]…

[Islamic Education for Ninth Grade # 589 p. 78]

· "Lessons to be learned: One must beware of civil war, which the Jews try to foment, and of their scheming against the Muslims."

[Ibid. p. 94]

Modern events are misrepresented to portray Israel as active in an ongoing attack against Islam and the Arabs. Two examples: In 1969 an Australian [non-Jew] set the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on fire. Yet, the children are taught that Israel did it.

· "This arson is a further chapter in the Zionist plot, whose aim is to take control of this Islamic holy place, the Dome of the Rock and the whole area of the Jerusalem sanctuary and to destroy all that is holy to Islam."

[Reader and Literary Texts for Eighth Grade #578 p. 97]

The Zionist movement has never called for the expulsion of Israel's Arab citizens. Yet the books teach that Zionism calls for this "expulsion":
· "Zionism is a political, aggressive and colonialist movement, which calls for the Judaisation of Palestine by the expulsion of its Arab inhabitants …

[Modern Arab History and Contemporary Problems, Part Two, for Tenth Grade #613 p.49]

The same hateful portrayal of Jews and Israel found in the school books is promoted regularly on Palestinian television. There too, Israel is the enemy of the Arabs and Islam:

"The Koran stresses that the closest people to the Muslims are the Christians, whereas their greatest enemies are the Jews... 'May Allah protect us from the evil of the Satan - there is no enemy of the believers greater than the Jews and the idoloters'... Jesus warned the Jews of destruction and his prophecy was fulfilled and the City of Peace was purified from the defilement of the Jews... This ended the invasive Jewish presence in the Temple..."

[PA television June 5, 1998]

· "Israel's mean, brutal, inhuman, fascist, racist, genocidal, cleansing wars…"

[PA television May 14, 1998]

· "The Jewish gangs waged racial cleansing wars against innocent Palestinians… large scale appalling massacres saving no woman or children."

[PA television May 14, 1998]

· One day they attacked… Attacked my country. They killed the old and slaughtered the young. They burned the Koran and destroyed the house. They marched upon my heart, you are my country.

[summer camp song - Palestinian Authority TV, July 19, 1998]

The Jewish-Israeli character is maligned: · "The occupier as you all know is a deceiver, a cheater, moreover, he is a liar…"

[PA television May 14, 1998 , speech by Khalid Mismar, Deputy Political representative]

· Zionism is presented as "a cancer in the body of the nation".

[PA television May 14, 1998]

· Israeli soldiers are "those terrorists".

[ PA television May 24, 1998]

· "…the terrorism that the occupying Israeli forces put into practice against our Palestinian nation since 1948."