Ever notice how all these “mistakes” always and in every instance go in the same direction?
“UNRWA ‘mistakenly’ gave Palestinian kids textbooks calling for jihad,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, January 16, 2021:
The United Nations aid agency for Palestinians said it is “taking steps” to address the glorification of “martyrs” and calls for “jihad” in books it handed out to students.
UNRWA made the statements Thursday following a report published a day earlier by the Jerusalem-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School, or IMPACT-se, saying the books went to hundreds of thousands of students in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza. Many seem to be based on Palestinian Authority resources. Some mislabel Israel as “Palestine” or erase the country from maps of the Middle East.
One Arabic grammar booklet features phrases like “Jihad is one of the doors to Paradise.” Another reads that “The Palestinians are lions in fighting the enemies.” One book has a poem about how “a raging fire awaits the Occupation,” while another states that “The motherland is worthy of any kind of sacrifice” and “the Enemy [committed] heinous offences against … the mujahideen,” Arabic for anyone fighting a jihad, or holy war.
A ninth-grade social studies booklet accuses Israel of deliberately polluting Palestinian territories and spreading disease by dumping radioactive and toxic waste, the report said.
UNRWA spokeswoman Tamara Alrifai told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that these and other texts were “not in line with U.N. values” and “mistakenly included” as the agency rushed to supply students teaching aids during the COVID-19 lockdown….
DavidR says
This goes back further than the “oversight” of the U.N.’s editorial department which acts as if the whole organization has taken sides. What? They already have taken sides? Put another way, the unwritten official position of the U.N. is that Jewish children are not very important and Muslim children need “guidance”.
Sabri S. says
Only Zionism and the propaganda lies of the Israeli oppressors have gone one way over time.
I called this years ago. The middle east will know absolutely no peace whatsoever as long as this apartheid zionist state exists. It is the “white elephant” in the room, and people are now wising up to this fact. The UN is useless by the way. Only the interests of the Security Council members matter, and Israel has breached every international agreement in existence, while instigating genocide against the indigenous inhabitants of the region. And then, they have the nerve to claim that they are descendants of the ancient black and brown jews of antiquity. They sound more and more ridiculous by the the decade.
El Sis says
Thanks, Sabri S.
And also all your fellow Jew haters.
The more hatred is directed towards the Jews, the more they will emigrate to Israel and as a result the stronger Israel becomes.
Starting with hundreds of years of anti-Semitism with every European country doing the utmost to eradicate their Jewish population culminating in the Holocaust, Jews have little choice but to escape to a safe haven a land that they have cultural and spiritual ties that go back thousands of years.
“instigating genocide?”
Really? If this were true then the Arab populations of the West Bank and Gaza would be falling. This however is not the case, so the Israelis are not doing as you claim.
“The UN is useless by the way..”
Well, you got that part right.
Sabri S. says
Sorry my delusional and misguided zionist troll….European Jewry goes back only to 1948. And these British formed colonizers have no cultural or historical ties to ancient judea or Samaria whatsoever…those were black and brown hebrews who were wiped out in 70 AD! There was no holocaust either. There was a war going on. Yes, European jews were targeted because of their behavior and business practices, but thousands of europeans, Americans and Japanese died also. A total and true number of 400,000 died in this so called “holocaust”. And this included many others based on American Red Cross records at the time. Learn and speak the truth, and it will set you free. Or you could just convert to Islam and live the truth everyday.
gravenimage says
Sabri S. wrote:
Sorry my delusional and misguided zionist troll….European Jewry goes back only to 1948.
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This is just ludicrous. Jewish populations in Europe date back at least to the Roman Empire. There are people still living who know first-hand that this claim is absurd.
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And these British formed colonizers have no cultural or historical ties to ancient judea or Samaria whatsoever…those were black and brown hebrews who were wiped out in 70 AD! There was no holocaust either. There was a war going on. Yes, European jews were targeted because of their behavior and business practices, but thousands of europeans, Americans and Japanese died also.
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Just claptrap. Jews have lived in the Levant over at least the past *3000* years. In fact, there are Muslim texts that attest to Jews living there.
And how can the Qur’an make reference to Jews in Arabia and the surrounding area if all Jews had been wiped out in the region? But of course, Sabri S. cares nothing about factual information.
Then, the only black Jews are Jews in Ethiopia–they never lived in Israel until just recently, where they have been saved, largely from the not-so-tender mercies of Sabri S.’s murderous co-religionists.
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A total and true number of 400,000 died in this so called “holocaust”. And this included many others based on American Red Cross records at the time. Learn and speak the truth, and it will set you free.
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Ah–the usual. There was no Holocaust–but we intend to finish the job. This is often claimed by Muslims themselves intent on slaughtering Jews.
And the claim that the Red Cross has said that there was no Holocaust is *quite* false.
In fact, the International Red Cross confirms the Holocaust:
https://www.icrc.org/en/document/icrc-wwii-holocaust
And even this does not make sense by Sabri S.’s claims in this very post–how could even 400,000 Jews be killed in Europe if there *were no European Jews* as he claims? Again, Muslims reject reason, and it shows in their appalling inability to argue rationally.
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Or you could just convert to Islam and live the truth everyday.
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This is a threat. Once Musims “invite you to Islam”, they believe they have the right to murdfer you if you demur.
Cathy says
The only sentence in your brain dead piece of brainwashing is the one that states the UN is useless. The rest are lies and you need to prove each one. Obviously you’ve been reading the Muslim propaganda as this is the same garbage liars repeat ad nauseum. The genocide lie is so ludicrous, as the Muslim “Palestinian” population keeps going up, rather than down. Hard to do that when everyone is genocided. Any person reading your lies with half a brain can see the logic is missing and your rant is nonsensical.
john smith says
Yes Cathy I will go along with that, “the only sentence in his brain dead piece of brainwashing is the one that states the UN is useless”.
Sabri is consumed with hate for Israel and the Jewish people, he has to lie through the teeth to back his hatred up. He sounds like a hardcore jihadi to me, I certainly wouldn’t want to bump into him in a dark alley.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Cathy and John.
Sabri S. says
Attention trolls such as Graven Image. The jews you speak are not the Zionist occupying Palestine today. The “jews” of antiquity and during the conquest by the Roman Empire were Hebrew Israelites and people of color. These so called European jews you speak of are polish, russian and ukranian immigrants and converts. Why do you think the early zionist that occupied and formed Israel spoke YIDDISH? Duh!
And why do you think they had to re-create the hebrew language upon the formation of zionist israel. It is because hebrew is not and has NEVER been their indigenous language. Send ashkenazi jews back to poland and russia where they belong! Allah U Akbar!
gravenimage says
Sabri S. wrote:
Attention trolls such as Graven Image. The jews you speak are not the Zionist occupying Palestine today. The “jews” of antiquity and during the conquest by the Roman Empire were Hebrew Israelites and people of color.
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Sabri S.’s constant claim that the Jews of the Levant were all black, this makes no sense. In fact, no native people of the Levant have been black.
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These so called European jews you speak of are polish, russian and ukranian immigrants and converts. Why do you think the early zionist that occupied and formed Israel spoke YIDDISH? Duh!
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Ashkenazi Jews only make up a small percentage of the Jews of Israel. There are also Sephadic and Mizrani Jews. Mizrani Jews have lived in the Holy Land for the past 3000 years. Moreover, all Jews are closely related, whether they at one time lived in the Mediterranean or more morthenly Europe, or even in Yemen or Ethiopia.
In fact, fewer than a third of the Jews in Israel are Ashkenazi.
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And why do you think they had to re-create the hebrew language upon the formation of zionist israel. It is because hebrew is not and has NEVER been their indigenous language. Send ashkenazi jews back to poland and russia where they belong! Allah U Akbar!
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The Israelis did not have to re-create the Hebrew language–in fact, ressurecting a language had never been done successfully before. This was a point of cultural pride–not a fair accompli as “Sam” pretends. But Hebrew *has* been used as the languarge of religious Judaism during the whole history fo the Jews–that is what this is based on. It formed the common language of Jews from the whole of the world.
There is ample proof of Hebrew being used as the religious language of the Jews for milenia–is “Sam” claiming tnhat Hebrew only dates to 1948 as well?
Captain says
Tell that to the 100,000s of Sunni Syrian citizens who have died at the hands of Aliwai and Shia in the civil war. Tell that to the Sunni citizens of Lebanon who live under the thumb of Hezbollah and the Ayatollah in Iran. Tell that to Muslims who seek modernity and tolerance both Sunni and Shia. Do you watch as Islamic Sects go to war? Are each declaring the other apostate? Must there be only one Islam with no variances?. Every where in the Islamic world there is sectarian violence. Shia and Sunni mosques are blown up in Pakistan and elsewhere during prayer. The minor sects are declared not Muslims. ISIL kills anyone who is not Sunni Salafi enough and despises all other Sects of Muslim.
Fatah kills and terrorized Palestinian Arabs and Hamas members to keep in power. Hamas kills Fatah and others to keep control. They all are dishonest stealing from their people as the people go go without freedom. Each claim piety each claims virtue but yet your war within Islam goes on. Yes slowly Arab Muslims and Christians in Israel are understanding their better situation as they see the death and corruption that surrounds them. Today more and more Arab Youth are volunteering to serve in the IDF and defend their country Israel. It no longer just Bedouin and others who serve but Muslim Arabs from Muslims Villages and towns serve. One may ask themselves why the Shin Bet and IDF always knows what is happening in not only the territories but Iran and Syria. Its simple Muslim Arabs tell them. Many of your people hate their leadership. When it was suggested that some Israeli Arab towns be placed into the PA in a land swap they objected. An election every 15 years and being looted by demands for bribes to get permits is not what they want. Arabs in Israel get real health care. They get real justice denied to Arabs under their Arab rules else where in the Arab world. Look into the mirror and you will see your real oppressors. It is not America or Jews but a darkness in your soul that does this evil to yourselves. I guess when you tell the same lies over and over again you begin to believe them even as you know in your heart the truth is not what you say but far more complex. Hate will never bring you peace. Your hate is killing Muslims.
James Lincoln says
We are all crystal clear on where you stand, Sabri S.
Very predictable for one who supports honor killings….
gravenimage says
Sabri S. wrote:
Only Zionism and the propaganda lies of the Israeli oppressors have gone one way over time.
I called this years ago. The middle east will know absolutely no peace whatsoever as long as this apartheid zionist state exists. It is the “white elephant” in the room, and people are now wising up to this fact.
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It seems the appalling Sabri S. is fine with textbooks teaching the slaughter of Jews and the destruction of Israel–but then, why wouldn’t he be?
And what he *really* means here is that Muslims won’t stop butchering Jews in Israel so long as there are Jews living in freedom there. It is Muslims who will not allow peace.
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The UN is useless by the way. Only the interests of the Security Council members matter, and Israel has breached every international agreement in existence, while instigating genocide against the indigenous inhabitants of the region. And then, they have the nerve to claim that they are descendants of the ancient black and brown jews of antiquity. They sound more and more ridiculous by the the decade.
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Actually, the UN regularly bows to the diktats of the OIC–the Muslim conference.
There is no genocide in Israel–in fact, the Muslim population has much grown in Israel.
Finally, Sabri S. has made the ludicrous claim many time that the indiginous population of the Levant is “black”, and that hence all Jews, even Mizrani Jews whose ancestors never left the Holy Land, are somehow not real Jews, and hence can be slaughtered with impunity. Sabri S. has been called on this dozens of times now, but he just does what most Muslims do to facts–he either ignores them, or else replies with violent invective, He has never once addressed this point. No surprise–pious Muslims reject facts.
john smith says
These pious muslims are all the same gravenimage, and Sabri S is no different. They follow an evil death cult that opposes even the most basic principles of humanity.
Evil is goodness to them, hate is love, and truth is a lie.
Everything in islam is twisted and perverted, they can kill their own children for as little as falling in love with someone they disapprove of, or becoming to westernised. When I first heard of these honour killings I asked myself, how can they kill someone they love, now I know the answer. They have so much hate in their hearts that it’s impossible for them to feel love, and love becomes just a word to them. Incidentally Sabri S approves of honour killings, so it comes as no surprise that in his twisted mind his lies become the truth.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, John.
Keith O says
The obvious question is what was the UN doing with those books in their inventory to start with?
Then we have to ask who authorised those books, what their allegiance is to and is the UN going to correct it’s “mistake” and withdraw to offending texts from the students?
Of course we can only imagine the outcry if the books had gone to Jewish or Christian kids containing similar incitements to destroy mudslimes.
The story would make the news all over the world.
Westman says
“We were just too lazy to review the materials and see that some sly anti-Israel people wrote these things in our otherwise stellar education books.” It’s just normal to put out a few hundred thousand sets of teaching materials from the PA, Hamas, Fatah, etc, and never review them.
So dishonest. The teaching materials were meant to indoctrinate and incite children to violent jihad as tomorrows rock throwers and future years terrorists. When donation soliciting letters come from UNRWA there is proper place for them that is serviced once a week.
mortimer says
References to jihad in Islamic literature are sometimes subtle, rather than blatantly blood-thirsty. All but experts on Islamic phraseology would fail to see them as dangerous. However, subtle references to jihad will be explained by the teacher to bring out the aggressiveness implied in them.
All jihad is aggression.
Westman says
We can be certain that Israelis would have no difficulty detecting the “subtleties” in these materials or in the Quran. They have too much “hands on”:experience.
gravenimage says
UN says it ‘mistakenly included’ textbooks promoting jihad war against Israel among books it distributed to students
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Oh, gee–just an innocent mistake anyone could make… sarc/off
spiro says
Exactly
Oh gee when I read the I didn’t see that
The only mistake they got caught
You would think by now the Israeli phobic Arabs would realize they’re not going to defeat Israel
Eleanor says
Speaking of the UN, I wonder if Biden will go ahead and sign the UN’s Migration Compact now that Trump is out of the way. There were several countries who did not sign up for this load of rubbish, and good for them.
“Among those who refused to adopt the deal – in addition to the United States – were Hungary, Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Chile and Australia.”
gravenimage says
Many on the far left are demanding just that.
Mojdeh says
This was not mistake every one knows it.
MrLogical says
Nothing to worry about. Nothing a all.
Rest assured that once Biden’s diplomacy team is in place and his UN Ambassador is named this sort of ‘mistake’ will never take place ever again. Never. Understand?
Joe will fix it.
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Del says
They were deliberately printed. There is and was no mistake. Why is the UN printing anything for the Palestine terrorists? Do they not have printing companies? Oh, shit, I forgot. Rather than buying printing machines they spent the money on explosives, rockets and cement for tunnels.
OLD GUY says
The UN was a great idea when it was started, but as with any political organization it has become corrupt and bogged down within its self.
speakupif says
Sadly yes, as with a country based on freedom to be hijacked by the lawless and corrupt.
gravenimage says
I was very excited about the UN as a child, and was proud that it had been founded in my birthplace of San Francisco. I soon realized, though, that a body largely made up of unfree states is not apt to be an effective force for good.
Oren says
Not to mention I have read articles calling out UN textbooks for Jew hatred for several years. In G-d I trust.
gravenimage says
You are right, Oren–this is not the first time this has happened. The UN *might* have been blindsided once–but now they should know that this is an ongoing danger.
Jerry says
UNRWA:
UNITED NATIONS ROCKETS AND WEAPONS AGENCY