A disturbing investigation by The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has found that the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum being taught to nearly 300,000 Arab students promotes antisemitic stereotypes.

An 11th-grade PA history textbook includes imagery of a hand with a Star of David gripping the globe, perpetuating the ancient stereotype of Jewish world control. Another Islamic education textbook characterizes “the Jews” as “deceitful, immoral manipulators who are hostile to Islam.”

“We see again that the PA continues to deeply embed hatred and violence in its curriculum and brazenly continues to teach antisemitism, the glorification of terrorism, and the dehumanization of Israelis,” says IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff. “Palestinian classrooms remain a breeding ground for extremism, with new educational materials reinforcing the same old dangerous narratives.”

The findings are particularly troubling as they come after the PA explicitly committed to the European Union last year that it would reform educational content to align with UNESCO’s standards of peace and tolerance in exchange for EU funding.

Instead, the PA’s new textbooks erase Israel from maps by depicting cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa as Palestinian territory. All the while terrorists who have targeted civilians are presented as role models, including Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre that killed 38 Israelis, including 13 children.

More disturbingly, education materials openly celebrate the October 7 Hamas massacre , referring to the perpetrators as “heroes” and “symbols of pride.” Even mathematics and science are weaponized for ideological purposes, with third-grade students asked to calculate the number of “martyrs” killed by by the IDF.