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Palestinian children at UK taxpayer-funded school pretend to execute Israeli soldier

Mar 12, 2017 10:19 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

$87,609,600 of British taxpayer money is being handed to the Palestinians, to fund schools, among other things. Anwar Abu Quak, an English teacher in Ramallah, has stated that “he had never seen a Western donor visit his school premises,” so there is no accountability. As it turns out:

Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants, which openly promote terrorism and encourage pupils to see child killers as role models.

And even worse:

Nabil Samara, head of the 850-pupil school, spent two spells in prison for affiliation to a terror group and one for encouraging teachers to incite violence. He has seen five pupils shot dead in protests during his decade in charge (their pictures are displayed in the school) and about 20 jailed. ‘As long as the occupation continues it is impossible for us not to be inciting violence,’ said Samar.

Britain and every Western nation needs to take a lesson from the new US Administration and stop spending the public’s money on jihadist initiatives against Israel and against the West:

The White House is signaling its support for a new congressional effort to cut all U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority due to its continued support of terrorism against Israelis and Americans, according to senior lawmakers and senior White House officials.

The independent monitoring group, UN Watch, has compiled an extensive report here, entitled: “Poisoning Palestinian Children–A report on UNRWA Teachers’ Incitement to Jihadist Terrorism and Antisemitism.”

“A sick new low for foreign aid: Palestinian boys and girls pretend to execute an Israeli soldier – as teachers at schools funded by YOU tell their pupils that terrorists are heroes”, by Ian Birrell, Daily Mail, March 11, 2017:

Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants, which openly promote terrorism and encourage pupils to see child killers as role models.

A Mail on Sunday investigation has found 24 schools named after Palestinian terrorists and evidence of widespread encouragement of violence against Israel by teachers, with terrorists routinely held up as heroes for schoolchildren.

Pictures of ‘martyrs’ are posted on school walls, revolutionary slogans and symbols are painted on premises used by youngsters, sports events are named after teenage terrorists and children are encouraged to act out shooting Israeli soldiers in plays.

Head teachers openly admit flouting attempts by British and European donors to control the curriculum at schools. They print overtly political study aids for pupils, some even denying the existence of Israel, and teachers boast of encouraging pupils to emulate teenage attackers killed in the most recent wave of terrorist attacks in the region.

One senior teacher from a prominent West Bank school, asked what he would say to a pupil threatening to attack Israelis, told this newspaper: ‘I would tell them go in the name of God.’

This is all despite a review of the hundreds of millions of pounds in donations poured into Palestinian public services last year, which came after Western donors raised concerns about the indoctrination of children.

The changes to aid handouts followed a furore sparked by a previous Mail on Sunday investigation exposing how British taxpayers’ cash supported monthly payments to convicted terrorist killers and the families of suicide bombers.

The investigation also discovered that British aid was funding salaries for thousands of civil servants who had not worked for nine years, despite many admitting they had second jobs. These payments were stopped three months ago.

The investigation was part of this newspaper’s long-running campaign against the Government’s commitment to foreign aid which is set to reach £12 billion.

Joan Ryan, chair of Labour Friends of Israel and MP for Enfield North, said she supported sending aid to Palestine but urged Ministers to make the Palestinians stick to funding agreements. She said: ‘We cannot stand idly by while the Palestinian Authority sanctions anti-Semitic incitement which poisons young minds and makes a two-state solution ever more difficult to achieve.’

This year alone Britain is giving £25 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA). It will help fund salaries for 30,000 officials in West Bank health and education.

The EU, which gets one-tenth of its aid budget from Britain, is donating £272 million. More than half of this goes to public servants in education, health and social services in Gaza and West Bank.

Both the Department for International Development and the EU say the use of such money is carefully vetted by accountants. But a new report prepared for Labour Friends of Israel by Palestinian Media Watch, a respected Israeli monitoring organisation, has discovered:

Twenty-four schools named after prominent Palestinian terrorists, including four named after the man who planned the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, one after the founder of militant Islamist group Hamas and one after Amin al-Husseini, the infamous Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who backed Hitler and helped recruit for the SS.

Sports events being regularly named after terrorists. Typical was a football tournament, hosted by a school in al-Bireh, named after a 13-year-old who stabbed two Israeli citizens a few weeks earlier. His 15-year-old friend was shot dead in the attack.

Plays put on at schools and summer camps have pupils staging ‘executions’, such as one in Hebron featuring a child draped in Palestinian colours ‘shooting’ another dressed as an Israeli soldier. The images were posted on the school’s Facebook page.

The Palestinian ministry of education planted trees to commemorate terrorists killed in ‘the ongoing popular uprising’. It was a means of ‘honouring the martyrs, among them school students, and to strengthen the sense of belonging to the land.’

Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch, said British aid was backing the glorification of terrorism and indoctrination of Palestinian children to see murderers as role models. ‘Britain and the European Union bear responsibility for this terror when they are funding a school system that is actively promoting, and thereby creating, terrorism,’ he said. ‘This is simply child abuse, encouraging kids to die in armed struggle.

‘It is a terrible message for the next generation. Children are the key to peace but look at what they are being exposed to from a young age, growing up in an environment of terror and told the killing of Israelis is a heroic action.’

One of the schools he identified was Khalil al-Wazir elementary school for girls in Hebron.

This is named after the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s former military mastermind known as Abu Jihad, who was blamed for the slaughter of 125 Israelis.

The smart hilltop school has an image of his face painted inside its grounds alongside the words: ‘Abu Jihad. First the bullets and first the stones.’ The logo for political group Fatah, which runs the West Bank, is sprayed beside the main gate with its familiar crossed guns.

In one corner of the courtyard can be found a plaque marking the ‘construction and rehabilitation of toilets, storage facilities and drinking fountains’ funded by EU aid.

Another of the schools is Dalal Mughrabi high school for girls in al-Shuyukh, Hebron. It is one of three named after the woman who led the most lethal terror attack in Israeli history, a 1978 bus hijacking that left 37 people dead, including 12 children.

A map of Israel and the Occupied Territories was painted on the wall beside the front door – filled in entirely with the Palestinian flag to illustrate the ‘illegitimacy’ of Israel’s existence. Pupils told me they knew little about Mughrabi. But girls at another school named after her told Palestinian television three years ago of their pride in attending a place named after ‘a great leader’. One said her ‘life’s ambition’ was to emulate such a hero.

A teacher also hailed Mughrabi as ‘one of the brave female fighters who carried out martyrdom-seeking operations.’

An education official in Hebron told me they did not see such a person as a terrorist since she was defending the people’s rights against repressive occupation. ‘We do not consider her a child killer,’ he insisted. ‘Where is the problem in calling schools after such martyrs?’

As we talked, a colleague tapped away on a computer with a USAid sticker on it, one of 25 recently donated to the municipality.

One of Barack Obama’s last acts as President was to hand $221 million (£181 million) to the PA hours before Donald Trump succeeded him.

The move highlights how a corrupt regime is propped up by foreign aid, with £14 billion handed over during its 23-year existence. Foreign support has fallen recently, causing financial problems in the struggling region, yet terrorists and their families are still being paid £246 million a year.

Western donors, stung by accusations of aiding terrorism, forced the PA to change its school curriculum at the start of this school year by weeding out controversial issues in history, geography and religion.

Teachers told me they were now meant to be barred from discussing the 1948 Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were exiled or fled from their homes during Israel’s war of independence. Koranic verses referring to jihad are also off limits.

But they brazenly said they ignored the bans, claiming their leaders agree controls just to get through the vetting process and obtain aid cash in full knowledge any restrictions will be brushed aside in classrooms.

‘This is how it works,’ said Anwar Abu Quak, an English teacher in Ramallah. ‘They apply for funds, they get funds and they claim they will remove things from our textbooks. Then the principals tell teachers to take it upon themselves to teach the right things. Why should we listen to the foreign donors? They are buying the politicians and civil servants with their money, not those of us teaching the kids…..

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  1. Harvey Jackson says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 10:30 am

    The articles are too long! Compress or consolidate to have greater impact.Thanks.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 10:36 am

    GENOCIDE is ok if MUSLIMS do it.

    This is the craze of the Left. They give special rights to their barbarian ‘pets’ to commit crimes against humanity… because… well… ‘it’s their CULTURE’… and well … those primitive savages can’t help it … and all cultures are equivalent in evil … and who are we to judge their genocidal ideation?

    But how can we allow FASCISTS to have free speech?

    (sarc/off) Note: Stalin called Trotsky a ‘fascists’ too.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 10:42 am

    Quote from Prof. Gad Saad: “Early last year I introduced a theory to explain the mass hysteria associated with social justice warriors. I called it “COLLECTIVE MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME. Munchausen disorder is when somebody feigns a medical illness or injury to garner sympathy and empathy. Munchausen syndrome by proxy is when you have somebody under your care — say your child — and you harm that third party to garner sympathy. “Look, my child is hurt!” So it’s a really morbid, grotesque psychological desire to draw attention to yourself because you enjoy the sympathy you receive.

    I took this psychiatric disorder that I’d written about in a medical journal and then I argued that the manner in which social justice warriors respond is really a manifestation of COLLECTIVE MUNCHAUSEN. It’s more than just mass hysteria — which is a known psychological mechanism. It has a specific goal which is to turn the attention inward to: “Oh my god, WE’RE SUCH VICTIMS.” So the faux-fear we’re seeing now with all of these, for lack of a better term, schmucks is a form of collective Munchausen. It’s: “Oh my god, we’re going to be gang-raped, the Third Reich is coming for us.” I put up a satirical video where I reported that the inauguration death patrols were coming for me whilst hiding under the table in my study.”

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 11:04 am

      OhMiGawd. “Collective Munchausen Sydrome”. Genius. Thank you for posting. I am taking this for my own.

  4. Berengaria says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 10:42 am

    Thank you for the article on “PHONY” PALESTINIAN children learning the JIHAD WAY. BRITS ARE NOT ALONE IN FUNDING THESE PINT-SIZED TERRORISTS, OBAMA WAS HANDING OUT MONEY LIKE CANDY TO “PHONY” PALESTINIANS.
    Since President Trump was elected, we pray that AMERICA will stop paying TRIBUTE to MUSLIM TERRORISTS. NO MORE!

    • Bharat says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 10:55 am

      True,
      Why r we blaiming jihadis whrn brits and allies are actually pumping arms and our tax $$$$ to these cowards ? I fail to understand this game of western politicians…….

  5. Bharat says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 10:52 am

    Its so sad that we the ppl elect these pothead politicians to work for us but they donr seem to do anything for us, ppl dont even know where the money is being spended.
    I support Trump on the issue of not spending public $$ for jihadis.

  6. FYI says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 11:03 am

    What next will they be teaching children?Islamist Nursery Rhymes?

    “Little miss muffet
    sat on a tuffet,
    eating her curds and whey.
    Along came a muslim,
    (a member of isis)
    right up beside her,
    and blew them both clean away”

    “Georgie Porgie,
    pudding and pie,
    abandoned his islam,
    ……so he had to die”

    “This little piggy went to the market,
    this little piggy stayed at home.
    this little piggy made a suicide jacket.
    this little piggy used his phone.
    and this little piggy went…{ to a nightclub shouted “allahu akbar”
    killed everybody in the name of allah…and..} cried wee wee wee all the way home”.

    • Angemon says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 3:43 pm

      XD

  7. tpog says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    Thank you, FYI, had a good laugh.

    However, this is SERIOUS. This is child abuse of the first order, can’t expect much criticism from the saudi-controlled UN Human Rights Commission though — it’s right in line with their “culture”. If I remember correctly, our former part-time drama teacher muslim Prime Minister trudeau sent $Ms to the PA for the same purpose. His father screwed up our country and its looking as though “muslim little potato” is carrying on the family tradition.

    The Rebel Media interview with Gad Saad about Munchausen Syndrome right on point — have sent it on to other people..

    The more Western countries appease the barbarous ideology of islam the more they will demand ultimately taking our Western democratic countries back to the stone age reality of the Islamic world.

    WHEN WILL PEOPLE WAKE UP?!!!

  8. Stan Lee says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    Obviously, the Muslim-appeasing British government doesn’t mind advancing tax-payer money to Islamic religious schools, but “somehow” overlooked the educational curriculum of those schools.
    I suggest that it is a government without any intestinal fortitude, and therefore hesitates to advise that educating Muslim students in the UK, concerning the acting-out of killing Israeli soldiers is looked upon by the British elementary school educational subject schedule as an advanced study topic for young “peace-loving” Muslims receiving “superior” British educations.
    Apparenty, the British tax-paying public believes it is not the public’s “place” to be involved in the educational subjects of its school system. That same government should rethink its policy, since Arab kids, taught to attack Israeli military personnel, become very dead after discovering too late that Israeli soldiers will shoot to kill attackers intent upon killing them.

    • Anne Smith says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 8:35 am

      Perhaps this might serve as a wake up call to all the British Jewish businessmen and women who donate to the Conservative party funding.

      Withdrawal of funding usually has a salutory effect on policies.

  9. Frank Anderson says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    While the US pays the vast majority of military costs that cover Europe, EU takes money that should be going to its own defense responsibilities and knowingly gives it to terrorists.

    Still asking how can anyone capable of thought expect Israel to make “peace” deals with not just “leaders” but an entire society devoted to the murder of every Jew in the world. When Jews are gone, Christians and all other “infidels” are next. Some people just do not understand the serious reason and purpose for founding Israel in 1948. NEVER AGAIN.

    • Angus66 says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      Any/all financial aid to Palestine from Western countries needs to stop COMPLETELY.

      Expecting “palestinians” (codename for “muslim savages”) to use aid money for peaceful means is like expecting a drug addict to buy life necessities instead of more crack.

  10. David, Thailand says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    Brits have two choices: wake up before it’s too late or after it’s too late.

    I believe it’s already too late, after just one generation of spineless pussies.

  11. Anne Smith says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 8:40 am

    Unemployment is indeed the driver of a great deal of the terror. Young unemployed people have, for the last thirty years or so, been enticed into revolutionary camps, where they find some sort of self esteem which they could not enjoy while unemployed and drifting aimlessly. This has definitely been the case in Egypt where peasants children, having received an education, are now unwilling to work on the land and do manual labour.

    Combine this with the Muslim world’s inability to provide jobs, industry, technology,development, corruption-free government, and you have the recipe for the disaster that now confronts the whole world.

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