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\"libraryproject\"<\/a>On Monday, a team of researchers presented the results of a three-year study that tried to objectively look at bias in Israeli and Palestinian textbooks directed against “the other.\u201d The results and the responses they engendered were mixed, leaving the State Department, the primary funder of the study, to dance around the results.<\/p>\n

While the report found that each side teaches their children little<\/a> about the other’s religion, culture or economy and most maps on both side ignore the other, the results were not all negative<\/a>. For years, the debate over incitement in textbooks has fueled accusations that there is no desire for peace. According to the Guardian<\/em>, \u201cIsrael and the Palestinian Authority have both been accused of teaching violence and hatred, demonizing the other, or using excessively negative depictions in children’s education\u201d but the study found these claims unfounded. National Public Radio <\/em>reports: \u201cthere are few dehumanizing references in the textbooks of either side. The research team found few if any references to the other culture as \u2018subhuman,\u2019 something they said is common in other tense situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study was initiated by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land <\/a>comprised of the Chief Rabbis of Israel, the Minister of Religious Affairs of the Palestinian Authority, the Greek, Armenian and Latin Patriarchs of Jerusalem and the Anglican and Lutheran Bishops of the Holy Land; and was fully funded by the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n

The reactions to the report<\/a> were varied. Palestinian Authority\u00a0Prime Minister Salam Fayyad\u00a0welcomed the study, saying it \u201cproves what we have repeatedly affirmed in response to allegations\u201d about Palestinian incitement against Israel. He said he had encouraged the Ministry of Education to adopt its recommendations for improving the Palestinian curriculum.<\/p>\n

The Israeli Education Ministry denounced the report\u2019s findings<\/a> as an attempt to create a parallel between the Israeli and Palestinian educational systems and explained it chose not to cooperate with the study whose members \u201care interested in maliciously slandering the Israeli educational system and the State of Israel.\u201d In the U.S., the Anti-Defamation League supported the Education Ministry\u2019s criticism, calling the study \u201cdistorted and counterproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Bruce Wexler, the Yale University psychiatry professor who designed the study, countered those claims to reporters on Monday saying, \u201cFrankly, I think that the minister of education is a great example of the power of these unilateral narratives. That man cannot see beyond the blinders that have come into his mind by developing as a product of a national narrative that can\u2019t understand the types of things we\u2019re talking about here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The State Department distanced themselves from the findings<\/a> of the report, a reaction that The Washington Post <\/em>said was \u00a0\u201cprobably owed to ally Israel\u2019s angry reaction.\u201d The spokeswoman told reporters, \u201cThe results are not necessarily endorsed by the U.S. government, but we fund NGOs who are seeking to do independent analyses so that parties on the ground can use them in their own evaluation of these things\u2026So you know, we\u2019re not taking a position one way or another on what the study found.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sami Adwan of\u00a0Bethlehem University, the chief Palestinian researcher on the project, says that despite the Palestinian textbooks\u2019 low instances of dehumanization, \u201cHow can you teach children to act positive toward the Israelis when they\u2019re creating a much more difficult life? How can you tell them, \u2018Be nice to your neighbor\u2019 while you only see your neighbor in bulldozers and at checkpoints?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammed Dajani, a former\u00a0Fatah fighter turned peace activist, who served on the advisory board of the textbook study says now is the time to make changes in the curriculum. \u201cWe should not let our children inherit our problems<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taken from the Churches for Middle East Peace <\/a>website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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