The newly edited resources include an abridged online history textbook for students aged 16 and 17 that depicts a Magen David gripping the world and dismisses Jewish national identity as a "false claim" fabricated to justify colonisation, according to the Impact-se.
An Islamic Education textbook portrays “the Jews” as deceitful, immoral and manipulative people who are hostile to Islam, the report says.
A literacy book for six-year-olds teaches children Arabic while glorifying martyrdom, according to Impact-se. “Students are taught literacy exercises for the Arabic letter H (hā) using the term ‘shahīd’ (martyr), while jihad is explicitly described as one of the ‘gates to paradise’ in language activities.”
Elsewhere, jihad is depicted as “the peak of Islam” and a route to “achieving martyrdom”.
Another textbook includes poetry portraying martyrs as "climbing mountains of their gushing blood" with an accompanying exercise that asks students “How did the martyrs face death?” and how “death charged and drew its pickaxe at them.”
In another resource Dalal Mughrabi, who perpetrated the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre that killed thirty-eight Israelis, is celebrated as a national hero and female role model.
An Arabic language textbook for ten-year-olds says, "Our Palestinian history is brimming with names of martyrs who have given their lives in sacrifice to the Motherland. One of them is the martyr Dalal al-Mughrabi, who drew a portrait of defiance and heroism with her struggle, making her memory immortal in our hearts and minds. The text in our hands speaks about one part of the journey of her struggle."[Missing Credit]
A mathematics exercise for eight-year-olds asks students to write the number of “martyrs” killed during the First Intifada as 2,026, and another lesson asks students to calculate the number of “martyrs” killed by Israel.
In another maths lesson, children aged 12-13 are taught probability using the digits of the year 1948 accompanied by a map that erases Israel and features the word “Return” with a key, symbolising the Palestinian “Right of Return”, according to Impact-se.
A mathematics book for students aged 12 to 13 states: "The year 1948 represents a turning point in the life of our Palestinian people. It is the year that the Nakba took place, Palestine was occupied, and our people became displaced in the refugee camps and the Diaspora."[Missing Credit]
Other books erase Israel from maps and describe Israeli cities as Palestinian.
A resource aimed at nine-year-old students states that Palestinian refugees "shall definitely return [to Jaffa], no matter how long it takes."
While the resources are intended for remote learning outside the classroom, Impact-se notes that several schools in Gaza have reopened for in-person teaching.
The report reveals that at Al-Nasr Elementary School in Gaza City, students recited a poem which glorified October 7 and a message on the classroom blackboard read: "You are history, you are the flood", exalting Hamas’ name for the attacks (“Al-Aqsa Flood”). Another poster in the school called for “death to the jailer”, a phrase that Impact-se believes refers to Israel.
At Muscat Girls’ High School in Nuseirat, students learn "A Refugee’s Will", a poem by Egyptian poet Hashim Al-Rifa‘i, which includes the line “One day with the weapon in your hand”.
At Rufayda Al-Aslamiyya High School for Girls in Deir al-Balah, the names of “martyrs” are written on the walls, including members of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
A video from Al-Safa wal-Marwa School from January 2025 shows young students dancing and chanting a song with the lyrics “We ignited the Intifada, with a stone and a knife” while making throat-slitting gestures. The students sing "Challenge accepted, where are the Zionist and the soldier?"
Shool girls dancing in Al-Safa wal-Marwa School, performing the resistance sign (left image) and slitting the throat (right image) with their hands[Missing Credit]
The lessons and resources have been uncovered by Impact-se despite the PA’s commitment to the European Union in July 2024 that it would reform its educational content in adherence with Unesco’s standards of peace and tolerance in education, in return for continued EU funding.
The Impact-se research suggests that the PA has failed to meet international educational standards.
Impact-se CEO Marcus Sheff said: "This moment was the acid test for the Palestinian Authority. It signed an agreement with the EU committing to reform its curriculum. Instead, 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 dehumanisation of Israelis.
“Palestinian classrooms remain a breeding ground for extremism, with new educational materials reinforcing the same old dangerous narratives.”
The education watchdog will present its research into the PA’s teaching resources to EU officials this week.
A history textbook refers to Israel as Palestine[Missing Credit]