• Resolution “strongly condemns” continued antisemitism and incitement in PA textbooks.
• Resolution “underlines that EU funding will have to be suspended” if misuse of aid continues.
• PA, Hamas release statements attacking “false claims,” “politicization of humanitarian aid,” and “appalling bias” in favor of Israel.
• EU Commissioner says changes to the curriculum are “essential” and promises to “ensure that further curriculum reform addresses problematic issues in the shortest possible timeframe”.
• Legislators call for EU funding to be made conditional, describe PA textbooks as “a key impediment to resolution of the conflict.”
• This follows EU’s May 2022 budget report resolution demanding that PA be “closely scrutinized” over “continued failure” to remove hate from curriculum.
• IMPACT-se’s reports and briefings to commission and legislators are the basis for action on PA and UNRWA education in Brussels.

According to the United Nations, 2022 has been the deadliest year in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem in almost two decades, with over 150 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.
However, while this claim might be true, it is definitely not the whole truth. Indeed, these raw numbers fail to acknowledge that most Palestinians who died in recent months were killed while attacking Israelis.
Moreover, almost half of the deaths were publicly claimed as members of recognized terror groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.
By uncritically echoing the Palestinian death tally, some journalists are essentially turning reality on its head. The latest Palestinian assault on Israelis is made out to look like a campaign of aggression by the Jewish state.
We can only hope that the media will do better in 2023.