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Schoolchildren in EAST JERUSALEM (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

City Hall gets ever more creative in ignoring E. Jerusalem school shortage

As the Jerusalem municipality is gradually forced to acknowledge a catastrophic shortage of classrooms in the city’s Palestinian districts, it also finds brave new ways to avoid tackling it. By Aviv Tatarsky Let’s start with the bottom line: there is a shortage of 2,000 classrooms in East Jerusalem schools. In effect, that means Israel prevents more than…

By +972 Magazine September 2, 2016

Palestinian children in Gaza use a computer. (Illustrative photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Hamas textbook incitement and Israeli manipulation

Violence and incitement in education should be condemned on, and from every side. But clinging to and focusing only on the worst of the ‘other side’ can be even worse than incitement. The Hamas leadership in Gaza is replacing Palestinian Authority high school textbooks with its own, New York Times reported Monday. The Hamas textbooks, the story explains,…

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 4, 2013