As part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s revolutionary goal to modernize his country, the kingdom has revamped its education system removing virtually all anti-Israel and anti-Semitic content from its school textbooks.
JNS The findings by the London office of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) released on Tuesday are based on a review of more than 300 textbooks, including 80 for the current 2022-23 school year.
The report builds on a positive trend of changes since 2020, the year the Trump-sponsored Abraham Accords saw four Arab countries make peace with Israel. Previously, there were dozens of examples of Jew-hatred in Saudi textbooks, with entire chapters containing negative material about Israel now removed, IMPACT-se said.
An area of significant change concerns criticism of Jews in the early Islamic period, with almost all previously identified problematic examples in Islamic Studies textbooks removed from 2022-23 editions, the report found. Examples of material no longer appearing include God turning infidels into apes and pigs because they worshipped the devil, and implying that Jews are the enemies of Islam.
Times of Israel Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in an interview published Monday, recognized Israel’s right to exist and extolled the prospect of future diplomatic relations between his kingdom and the Jewish state.
In an extensive interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Prince Mohammed laid out his vision for the future of the Middle East, including the possibility of cooperation with Israel. No such senior Saudi official is known to have previously accepted that Israel has a “right” to any land beyond the practical need to secure a lasting deal.
Asked whether he believes “the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland,” he replied: “I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Israelis have the right to have their own land.”
Changes since last year include the removal of a lesson referring to Israel as a “falsified democracy,” and a blood libel falsely accusing Israel of setting fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in 1969, the report states.
Previously, lessons asserting the “Judaization” of the Al-Aqsa mosque—a mendacious claim still oft repeated by Palestinians—and teaching that the historical existence of a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem is a politically motivated fabrication—a canard promoted by the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat—were also removed.
At the same time, the textbooks censure the harmful ideologies of the Hezbollah and Houthi terrorist groups. The Muslim Brotherhood is a particular target of criticism. Peace and tolerance are promoted, while almost all examples of violent jihad have been removed, continuing a trend from last year, the institute reports.
Peace and tolerance are promoted, while almost all examples of violent jihad have been removed, continuing a trend from last year, the institute reports.
“While all textbook reform is important, Saudi Arabian textbooks are particularly consequential. Kudos is due to the Saudi government for this multi-year and systematic removal of Jew-hate and moderation of content on Israel in the textbooks of over six million Saudi children, and of many more who study the textbooks outside of Saudi Arabia.”
The continuing improvement in the Saudis’ depiction of Israel and the Jews in their textbooks comes as talks to normalize bilateral ties intensify. (But, of course, as former President Obama said, “Never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to f*ck things up”)
you would lick the shit of anything that befriends Israel
he has turned his country from super racist to extreme racist
only Saudis have actual rights , no foreigner is allowed to sue them (de facto) law
god help anyone convicted of any crime the shit treatment the abuse the suffocating punishment while their Saudi counterparts enjoy god like status over others, heck you would need to be Saudi to even get water service when it runs out and it’s all the time coz goberment pay for everything
that modernization is to lure western sheep like you to pay for his shit country basically you are getting a treatment that none westerners don’t get
you woman are corrupt to the core , couldn’t help it since you are a devil worshipper, you just look at what you like not the actual whole picture
and no he isn’t modernizing shit go there talk half of the shit you say here there he’d be personally on your neck fuckin swine
Anyone who comes here with the user name’KKK” and email address “[email protected]” doesn’t get to make more than one idiotic comment here
before being banned.
Fuck you buddy and your bullshit
And thanks to Joe Biden, Fakestainian schools have all the money they need to spread hate and encourage violence!
Yes, he not only restored all the funding for them that Trump had cut off, he added more to it.
I wouldn’t trust a Saudi EVER!
Have we forgotten that 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were SAUDI?
Or that Osama bin Laden was SAUDI?
Gimme a break.
The prince has demonstrated that he is different from his elders and has done more to change his country’s culture from its radical fundamentalist Islamic roots to one that is more freedom oriented than ever before. I can only imagine the pushback he is getting from the traditionalists. It’s a slow process, so give him some slack.
While he might be a sort of moderate modernizer he at the same time is ruthlessly killing anyone he is at odds with, no matter over what.
I’d prefer not dealing with him in any way though.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Reform takes time, a lot of time, because religious fundamentalists are still running things.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the the Crown Prince is suddenly knocked off by them.