Palestinians: Textbooks

(asked on 11th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish the (a) outcomes and (b) recommendations of the planned EU review of Palestinian textbooks.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 18th March 2020

The UK government is deeply concerned about allegations of incitement in Palestinian Authority’s school textbooks; and secured an independent EU-funded review of the textbooks which is underway. We expect interim findings to be due by June 2020 and full findings later in the year. We continue to encourage the EU to publish the report.

The International Development Secretary reiterated our concerns in a call to the Palestinian Authority’s Education Minister just last month.

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