From: PMW Bulletin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: PMW op-ed in JPost: "The Whitewashing of Hate" Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:04:50 +0000 ;72, GI,Pmw Bulletin Feb. 10, 2013 The following op-ed is PMW's rejection of the findings of the recent US-funded report on Palestinian schoolbooks. In 2007, PMW published a report on PA schoolbooks whose findings are still valid today. At the press conference to release the PMW report, then Sen. Hillary Clinton said about PA education and media aimed at children that they are "profoundly poisoning the minds of these children." Click to view The following is the PMW op-ed published in the Jerusalem Post: The Whitewashing of Hate PMW responds to the recent report on Palestinian and Israeli schoolbooks http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&docid=8539 by Itamar Marcus It is hard to imagine a more flawed analysis of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks than the recent report of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, led by Sami Adwan, Bethlehem University and Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv University. The report's inaccuracies start with its methodology of systematically citing all quotes from Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks under the same headings - forcing the appearance of symmetry even when none exists. Another major flaw is giving as much weight to the fringe, ultra - Orthodox school system in Israel as it does to mainstream state schools. This artificially inflates the number of problematic examples on the Israeli side to support the report's misleading EFTA00652879