As a media analyst, one must recognize that the Israeli education system is more complex, and therefore the criticisms are also more nuanced. There are three main types of schools in Israel: the secular Jew<\/b>, the Orthodox Jew (ultra-Orthodox)<\/b> and the Standard Arabic<\/b> school. The most significant studies examining textbooks and their internal narratives have reached the following main conclusions:<\/p>\n1. The most significant studies on Israeli textbooks<\/h3>\n
Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan\u2019s groundbreaking research<\/h4>\n
A professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem spent a full decade examining dozens of Israeli state-approved history, geography, and civics textbooks. His research was published in book form by Cambridge University Press (\u201eIdeology and Propaganda in Education: The Image of Palestinians in Israeli Schoolbooks\u201d<\/i>).<\/p>\n Main finding:<\/b> Secular and religious Jewish textbooks almost never portray Palestinians as real people, a modern society, or a cultural entity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The mechanisms of dehumanization:<\/b> Palestinians appear almost exclusively in three contexts on maps and in texts: primitive nomadic communities \/ local curiosities (camel herders)<\/i>, refugees<\/i> or terrorists who pose a security threat<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Silence of \u201eNakka\u201d:<\/b> The 1948 Palestinian catastrophe (the expulsion of the population) is portrayed in textbooks solely as \u201ean inevitable and legitimate consequence of Israel\u2019s War of Independence,\u201d glossing over the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n This was the most objective, large-scale project to date, funded by the U.S. Department of State and led by an international group of scholars (including professors from the universities of Tel Aviv and Bethlehem). Both Israeli and Palestinian textbooks were examined according to the same criteria.<\/p>\n Result on the Israeli side:<\/b> The report found that while overt, crude demonization or racially motivated incitement (which is sometimes evident in Arab textbooks) is rare in Israeli state-issued textbooks, the \u201estructural exclusion\u201d<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Abolition of borders:<\/b> Most of the maps in Israeli textbooks (more than 75% of them) have completely erased the \u201eGreen Line\u201d (the pre-1967 border). The West Bank (referred to as Judea and Samaria) and the Gaza Strip are depicted as if they were an integral and legal part of the State of Israel, with no indication of Palestinian cities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n While secular Israeli textbooks have sought to tone down certain content in recent years\u2014under international pressure\u2014the state-funded but independent Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) schools<\/b> His own textbooks are more radical.<\/p>\n Due to the lack of government oversight, these books openly promote the religious superiority of Jews.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Non-Jews (especially Arabs) are often portrayed as historical enemies who threaten the spiritual and physical existence of the Jewish people (e.g., as modern-day equivalents of the Amalekites).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n They also brand secular culture, democracy, and Western values as destructive aberrations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n From the perspective of building a news portal, this topic is the \u201epropaganda and selective outrage\u201d<\/b> a textbook example. If you look at the international press:<\/p>\n M\u00e9diaelemz\u0151k\u00e9nt l\u00e1tni kell, hogy az izraeli oktat\u00e1si rendszer komplexebb, \u00edgy a kritik\u00e1k is r\u00e9tegzettebbek. Izraelben h\u00e1rom f\u0151 iskolat\u00edpus l\u00e9tezik: a vil\u00e1gi zsid\u00f3, a vall\u00e1sos zsid\u00f3 (ultraortodox) \u00e9s az \u00e1llami arab iskola. A tank\u00f6nyveket \u00e9s azok bels\u0151 narrat\u00edv\u00e1it vizsg\u00e1l\u00f3 legfontosabb kutat\u00e1sok a k\u00f6vetkez\u0151 f\u0151bb eredm\u00e9nyekre jutottak: 1. A legjelent\u0151sebb izraeli tank\u00f6nyvkutat\u00e1sok Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan m\u00e9rf\u00f6ldk\u0151nek sz\u00e1m\u00edt\u00f3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,31],"tags":[100,96,153,154,156],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hasbara-megdonese","category-az-izraeli-kormany-politikajanak-kritikaja","tag-hasbara","tag-izrael","tag-kozel-kelet","tag-nemzetkozi-kapcsolatok","tag-vilagpolitika"],"modified_by":"Antipropaganda H\u00edrblog","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
The 2013 Comprehensive Joint U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Report<\/h4>\n
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2. The World of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Textbooks<\/h3>\n
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3. How does media asymmetry work in this context?<\/h3>\n
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\n A Critique of Palestinian\/Arab Textbooks<\/strong><\/td>\n A Critique of Israeli Textbooks<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\n \n The matter has been escalated to the government level (the U.S. and EU parliaments are launching official investigations and cutting off aid).<\/span><\/td>\n It remains confined to university studies, internal debates within the UN (UNRWA), or marginal human rights reports.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The mainstream media presents this as \u201eevidence of indoctrination into terrorism.\u201d.<\/span><\/td>\n When the issue comes up, the media generally explains and legitimizes this exclusionary content by invoking Israel\u2019s \u201enarrative of self-defense in the name of security.\u201d.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"