Jewish Liaison.- The research and policy institution, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), released its latest report on the changes made to Qatari textbooks for the 2021-2022 school year, he said in a statement, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The Institute IMPACT yourself pointed out that the textbooks of Qatar they have shown slow but steady improvement by promoting more moderate messages and adding lessons on tolerance and racism.
The report of IMPACT yourself August 2020 on the study plans of Qatar found multiple instances of anti-Semitism and other extremist content in textbooks.
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IMPACT yourself he noted that the most significant change was the removal of a Social Studies textbook that promoted conspiracy theories such as Jews controlling the world economy and causing the rise of Nazi Germany by manipulating markets.
In addition, content praising the rocket attacks from hamas against Israeli civilians and taught that Jews are treacherous, lack loyalty to any country, and are to blame for Germany’s defeat in World War I.
A positive trend
“We are seeing a consistent positive trend compared to our Qatar reports from the last two years, although the pace is slow“.
Marcus Sheff, CEO of IMPACT himself
IMPACT yourself He added that some content that was abhorrent to Christians, such as the notion that “Christianization” is a threat, was removed from textbooks.
The institute also found that efforts had been made to reduce extremist content. For example, a lesson that glorified the founder of hamas, Ahmed Yassinas a martyr and symbol of the Palestinian struggle and a reference to a verse from Koran which described violence against Jews and Christians.
However, the institute noted, some problematic content remains in the curriculum, including the demonization of Israelthe rejection of Arab-Israeli normalization, the violent interpretations of jihad, the content anti-Semite and content that demonizes cheaters.
problematic content
“We are seeing a consistent positive trend compared to our reports of Qatar of the last two years, although the rhythm is slow”, said the executive director of IMPACT yourselfMarcus Sheff. “The greatest degree of progress has been made in removing the content anti-Semite. However, much of the material remains. anti-Semitereligious and nationalistic in nature. Textbooks largely continue to promote violent jihad as well as hatred towards non-Muslims. Israel continues to receive disproportionate negative attention, but the tone anti-Israel it has been reduced”.
“Ideally, the pace of change should be accelerated, both in removing problematic materials and in the more difficult work of creating peaceful and tolerant content, which the Qataris began producing in 2021.”
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