Posts Tagged ‘textbooks’

School Textbooks ‘Are Designed to Continue White Supremacy’ Says American Singer Andra Day

American actress and singer Andra Day claims that the textbooks used in American schools are designed to perpetuate “white supremacy,” by deliberately downplaying or hiding the accomplishments of black historical figures. The pop star says that one such figure is singer Billie Holiday, whom she plays in the Hulu movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday. […]

US lawmakers introduce bill to make State Dept. review PA textbooks

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced on Monday the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act. The bill requires the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress reviewing textbooks produced by the Palestinian Authority. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) sponsored the bill along with Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Rep. Brian […]

History, the Holocaust, and Hatred in Turkey’s School Textbooks

One of the most famous pictures of Jews being rounded up by Nazi Germans during the Holocaust, this from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – Time and again, the Middle East has taught us that whatever political problems or challenges a given regime may be facing, it always has […]

Turkey school textbooks call Jews and Christians ‘infidels’

School textbooks in Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been revised to refer to Jews and Christians as “infidels,” according to a new study. Whereas previous textbooks referred to members of those religions as “People of the Book,” textbooks such as “Fundamental Religious Knowledge,” a publication released after 2017 that is part of the […]

ADL Report Reveals Iranian Textbooks Are Seething with Anti-Semitism and Incitement

On the forty-second anniversary of the Iranian revolution, the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a comprehensive study exposing how Iranian textbooks teach blatant anti-Semitism and incitement to violence against the United States, Israel and the Jewish people. The study, titled “Incitement: Antisemitism and Violence in Iran’s Current State Textbooks,” reveals that recent state-sponsored Iranian […]

UNRWA textbooks under scrutiny by EU Parliament committee

Browse > Home / News / UNRWA textbooks under scrutiny by EU Parliament committee February 9, 2021 by JNS Read on for article Palestinian textbooks provided by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) came under scrutiny during a recent hearing of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Palestinian students affiliated with UNRWA in the […]

Canada probes UNRWA funds over textbooks for promoting hate

Canada will investigate its contributions to UNRWA following a report that the refugee agency for Palestinians uses textbooks that incite hatred and violence, Canada’s International Development Minister Karina Gould announced. Gould said she was “deeply concerned” to learn that educational materials UNRWA gave Palestinian children during coronavirus-related lockdowns “contained references that violated UN values of […]

New Saudi Textbooks Show Improvement in Depiction of Jews and Israel, Study Finds

A general view of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid the coronavirus pandemic, May 7, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ahmed Yosri. New editions of Saudi Arabian textbooks show a significant improvement in their references to Jews and Israel, according to a new report published by a major research institute on Tuesday. IMPACT-se — which monitors textbooks across […]

Observers Say EU-Funded Review of Palestinian Textbooks Reeks of ‘Incompetence, Concealment’

European Union flags in front of the European Commission building, in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – In a ground-breaking move and in response to the lack of change in the Palestinian Authority school curriculum and the continued insertion of antisemitism, hate and incitement to violence and martyrdom in its textbooks, […]

Leaked EU review giving high marks to PA textbooks allegedly studied wrong books

LONDON — A post-Brexit row, described as “a comedy of errors,” has broken out between the European Union and Britain over a review of Palestinian school textbooks that was commissioned before Britain left the EU on January 31, 2020. Israel-based education watchdog IMPACT-se states that preliminary reviews of the textbooks, carried out by the German […]

Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide

More than a decade ago, educators with the University of California decided not to recognize some credits from students whose high school courses were based on Abeka or BJU textbooks, saying they did not cover topics students needed to be ready for college. The Association of Christian Schools International sued the university system in […]

Man Demonstrates How Textbooks Can Save A Life During A School Shooting

After the school shooting in Florida, a man in Batesville, MS, is educating the public on how school textbooks can be used as body armor during a shooting. “One of the best defenses our kids have is right there in their hands is these backpacks with these government issued textbooks,” Rickey Red says in the […]

7 Discoveries That Would Transform What It Means To Be Human

What does it mean to be human? It’s a difficult question to answer. There are so many things which set us apart from one another, yet more still which bind us together, and I think we could all benefit from focusing more on what we share than what we do not. Our differences are important, as they […]

Phenomenon could lead to more compact, tunable X-ray devices made of graphene

By using plasmons to “wiggle” a free electron in a sheet of graphene, researchers have developed a new method for generating X-rays. In this image of one of their simulations, the color and height represent the intensity of radiation (with blue the lowest intensity and red the highest), at a moment in time just after […]

Celebrity MasterChef Star Is A Suspected Serial Killer

Stephen Port on left Celebrity MasterChef star Stephen Port appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from Pentonville prison on Wednesday, accused of drugging and murdering four young men.. The Independent reports: Footage of an episode from the BBC show’s ninth series, which aired in June, features Stephen Port serving pasta and meatballs to bus […]

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