Jesse Kline
National Post, Jan. 30, 2024
“On Oct. 7, as Hamas terrorists were indiscriminately slaughtering civilians in their homes and violently raping party-goers at a music festival, Safia Aidid, a professor at the University of Toronto, tweeted her “solidarity with the Palestinian people, today and everyday.””
The Israel-Hamas war has exposed an education system that promotes hate and glorifies violence — not only in the Palestinian territories, but right here in Canada.
On Friday, UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for ensuring Palestinians remain in a perpetual state of refugeehood, announced that it had fired several staff members after Israel provided credible evidence that they had participated in the Oct. 7 massacre. This prompted numerous countries, including Canada, to pause funding to the agency.
Subsequent reporting revealed that 12 staff members are under investigation, nine of whom work for UNRWA schools, including seven teachers. Unfortunately, this should not come as a surprise.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) — a non-profit with offices in Israel and the United Kingdom that analyzes textbooks and curricula from around to world to judge their adherence to values expressed by the United Nations — has been exposing the hateful content taught in UNRWA schools for over 20 years. … [To read the full article, click here]
