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Teaching for tolerance
and freedom of religion or belief


Religion, education and (in)tolerance

in the Palestinian/Israeli context

 
 

 


Please note: The list only contains items and pieces of information that are available on the web and should not be taken as a comprehensive bibliography. The items are of different origin and quality and the analyses that are given may be biased.
The inclusion of any particular item does not indicate positions taken by the Oslo Coalition.

For different perspectives on religion, tolerance and education in Palestine/Israel, compare the reports by CMIP (New York/Jerusalem) and MEMRI (Washington, DC) with the reports and articles produced by Georg Eckert Institute (Germany), IPCRI (The Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information Jerusalem), Brown, Reiss, Moughrabi, Adwan and Firer.

See also the official webpages of the Palestinian Curriculum Development Center and the "Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative" project of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East)


2005

Martin Patience: Professors' history project opens new chapter for Israeli, Palestinian students (USA Today, 11-10-2005)

Aaron D. Pina: Palestinian Education and the Debate over Textbooks. CRS Report for Congress, Updated May 2005.

Nadia Najjab: Knowing Thy Neighbour? (on religious education and identity in Palestine, This Week in Palestine, Issue 83, March 2005)

Nadia Naser-Najjab: Politicizing Palestinian education: IPCRI reports and the lack of objectivity (Palestine Report March 09, 2005)

IPCRI: IPCRI Peace Education 2005

2004

Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research: Reviews of current Israeli and Palestinian Textbooks (by Jonathan Kriener, Michael Kreutz, Götz Nordbruch, Anabel Rett, Wolfram Reiss, Adel el Sayed, Andrea Zempel)

IPCRI: Policy Paper on Palestinian Text Books Reform (November 2004)

IPCRI: Policy Recommendations for Peace Education in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority (August 29, 2004)

IPCRI: 220 Israeli and Palestinian Teachers and Educators Are Preparing a Revolution in the Educational Systems (July 23, 2004)

IPCRI: IPCRI's Report on Fourth and Ninth Grade Text Books of the Palestinian Authority (2004)

IPCRI: Examination of Israeli Textbooks in  Schools of the State Educational System (April 2004)MIFTAH: The Myth of Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks (January 2004)

2003

Wolfram Reiss: Die Juden im islamischen Religionsunterricht. Ein Vergleich ägyptischer, jordanischer und palästinensischer Schulbücher (Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur Nr. 49, 50, 51 - Dezember 2003).

CMIP: Detailed comparison of the reports on Palestinian textbooks (the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace and Report 1 of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, December 2003)

IPCRI: IPCRI Issues New Report On Palestinian Authority Text Books (May 20, 2003)

IPCRI: Analysis and Evaluation of the New Palestinian Curriculum. Reviewing Palestinian Textbooks and Tolerance Education Program (The Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, Jerusalem, March 2003).

CMIP: 2003 Palestinian Authority Textbook Calls for Jihad and Martyrdom (Special Report No. 22, November 14, 2003 - The Middle East Media Research Institute). Note: The book in question is a reprint of a Jordanian textbook, i.e. not among the new textbooks produced by the Palestinian authority.

CMIP: Jews, Israel and Peace in Palestinian textbooks. The New Textbooks for Grades 3 and 8 (CMIP Report No. PA-03-05, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, May 2003).

Sami Adwan and Dan Bar-On: Shared History Book Project (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East, Beit Jalah, 2003)

2002

Nathan Brown: The International Controversy Concerning Palestinian Textbooks, lecture delivered at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, December 2002.

CMIP: Jews, Israel and Peace in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks and High School Examinations (CMIP Report No. P-02-10, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)

CMIP: Arabs, Palestinians, Islam and Peace in Israeli School Textbooks (Update for 2000-2001 and 2001-2002) (CMIP Report No. I-02-08, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)

Ali Abunimah: A textbook case of Israeli propaganda (The Jordan Times, July 4, 2002)

Ruth Firer and Sami Adwan: Comparing Palestinian and Israeli Textbooks (Arabic Media Internet Network, March 28, 2002). Cf. What do Israeli, Palestinian texts say about conflict? (Jerusalem Post Service/Jewish Bulletin of Northern California); From Peace Making to Peace Building – a comparative Israeli-Palestinian research project on school textbooks and curricula plans in the subjects of history and civics (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research)

2001

Fouad Moughrabi: The Politics of Palestinian Textbooks (Journal Of Palestine Studies, Vol XXXI, No. 1, Autumn 2001, Issue 121)

Goetz Nordbruch: Narrating Palestinian Nationalism. A Study of New Palestinian Textbooks (Special Report No. 6, December 2, 2001 - The Middle East Media Research Institute)

CMIP: Jews, Israel and Peace in Palestinian School Textbooks  (CMIP Report No. P-01-11, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)

Nathan Brown: Democracy, History, and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum, paper presented at the Adam Institute Conference on “Attitudes toward the Past in Conflict Resolution,” Jerusalem, November 2001. This paper prompted a discussion between the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace and Nathan Brown.

Wolfram Reiss: Zur Debatte um Antisemitismen in Palästinensischen Schulbüchern. Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur Nr. 46, 13. November 2001, pp. 10-19.

Wolfram Reiss: Zum besseren Verständnis der Kulturen und Religionen erziehen. Revision der Darstellung des Islams und des Christentums in der Schule dringend notwendig. Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur Nr. 43, 23. Oktober 2001, pp. 6-12)

Sophie Claudet (Elisa Morena): Israel or Palestine: who teaches what history? A textbook case (Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2001)

CMIP: The Palestinian Authority School Books (CMIP Report No. P-01-03, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)

Nathan Brown: Short summary of research on Palestinian textbooks (originally appeared in “Teaching about Terrorism”, a publication of CAJE, the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education)

Palestinians Debate including the Holocaust in the Curriculum (MEMRI Special Dispatch Series - No. 187 - Palestinian Authority, February 21, 2001)

Akiva Eldar: What Did You Study In School Today, Palestinian Child? (Ha'aretz, January 2, 2001)

> 2000

Khalil Mahshi: If You Are For Truth, You Seek The Truth First (Ministry of Education, Ramallah – December 21, 2000)

Saed Abu Farha: PA Ministry of Education fights campaign against Palestinian curricula (The Jerusalem Times, 7 December 2001)

CMIP: Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks (CMIP Report No. I-00-09, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)

CMIP: Jews, Israel and Zionism in the Palestinian Authority’s Teacher’s Guides (CMIP Report TG-00-03, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)

Maureen Meehan: Israeli Textbooks and Children’s Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and Arabs  (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. A special report on a study of Israeli textbooks by a Tel Aviv University Professor, September 1999)

Sami Adwan: Analysis of The 1967 War Narrative In Palestinian History and Civic Education School Textbooks (Toensberg: Vestfold College, Report 4/98)


Compiled by Oddbjorn Leirvik (Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo) for the Oslo Coalition