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Marcus Sheff

CEO at IMPACT-se

Mar 15, 2023, 3:18 PM

Morocco’s school curriculum demonstrates remarkable respect for Jews

A 4th grade Arabic textbook teaches about the importance of Jewish-Moroccan music to Moroccan musical tradition. (courtesy)

A Muslim state's textbooks teach that Muhammad, no less, would have been glad one of his followers shared a meal with a Jew

Jan 30, 2023, 1:40 PM

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What Muhammad Aliwat learned in school

8th-grade textbook teaching reading comprehension through a violent story promoting suicide bombings. From IMPACT-se report, 'The 2020-21 Palestinian School Curriculum, Grades 1-12,' May 2021

Palestinian curricula continue to glorify religious martyrdom and spread hatred even as educational reform is underway elsewhere in the Arab world

Aug 29, 2021, 3:10 PM

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Keep funding the hatefest or demand a Palestinian peace curriculum

Illustrative photo: Palestinian students seen on their first day of the new school year in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 25, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

The EU will soon decide whether to re-up its support for teaching that even its own (woefully flawed) investigation found to be riddled with antisemitism

Dec 20, 2020, 12:43 PM

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An opportunity to change the cycle of hate

A Jordanian teacher talks to Syrian refugee students at a school in Amman, Jordan, September 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahmad Alameen)

How the Arab and Muslim world perceives Jews and Israel is being influenced for the better by recent changes to school textbooks

Jul 10, 2020, 1:41 AM

Debunking Beinart on Textbooks

Peter Beinart’s “Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine” has been so thoroughly eviscerated, we should be able to put it to rest. Daniel Gordis on this blog, explains the “sleights of hand and misrepresentations” that “for his readers...

Feb 15, 2019, 10:09 AM

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Doubling down on the PA’s curriculum deception

UNWRA officials lied when they pledged to address the hate being taught in Palestinian elementary schools

Aug 27, 2018, 8:28 PM

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The beginnings of hope in Lesbos

Refugees on the Greek island are getting an education in positive values of tolerance, peace and respect for the Other

Jan 2, 2018, 3:20 PM

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Time for Western donors to teach the PA a lesson

The PA's new curriculum promotes radicalization more than ever -- time for donor nations to cut off funding

Jun 20, 2017, 9:08 PM

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Fact checking the PA Minister of Education

Image from the April, 2017 IMPACT-se report on Palestinian elementary schools textbooks. (Screenshot)

Rebuttals to four claims made by Palestinian Authority Educational Minister Sabri Saidam

May 14, 2017, 10:04 AM

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Haredi textbooks in Israel: Reinforcing the barricades

Haredi children in Jerusalem. (photo credit: David Vaaknin/Flash90)

School curricula portray a hostile, us-them world and the biggest enemy is modernity itself

About Me

Marcus Sheff is CEO at The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Curtural Tolerance in School Textbooks. IMPACT-se analyzes textbooks, employing standards on peace and tolerance as derived from international declarations and resolutions.

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