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Feb 11, 2021, 3:47 PM

We must suspend aid that finances hate-filled curriculum

In this Palestinian school textbook, physics students are asked to calculate the forces at play when a slingshot is fired at Israeli soldiers (Jewish News)

Britain is a long-standing advocate of a two-state solution, but its funding for these lessons in hate undermines this. We should support efforts to bring about peace, reconciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, UK aid is helping to teach five-year-olds the word for...

Sep 22, 2020, 4:05 PM

Britain must stop enabling hate to be taught in Palestinian classrooms

Textbook (Photo by Valentin Salja on Unsplash via Jewish News)

This month, Palestinian children and young people will begin a new school year in which they will be taught from a curriculum which incites violence, extols the virtues of martyrdom and glorifies terrorists. This isn’t a new development: the Palestinian Authority introduced a new curriculum...

Jul 29, 2020, 11:04 AM

Under Keir’s new management, Labour can be honest-broker for Israel-Palestine

Keir Starmer (Photo credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire via Jewish News)

LFI’s meeting last week with Keir Starmer was another demonstration that our party is, as Labour’s leader put it himself, “under new management”. Keir’s acknowledgment that the last five years have been difficult for LFI’s members and supporters, set the tone for the kind of...

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Steve McCabe is chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak