Israelis unhappy with study of their textbooks and Palestinians’ ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Joel Greenberg - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am   A State Department-funded study released Monday on the contentious issue of how Israelis and Palestinians depict each other in textbooks says both are locked into narratives that portray the other side as the enemy and erase it from maps, yet do not dehumanize each other. » Read more

Textbook study faults Israelis and Palestinians ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Diaa Hadid - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am   Both Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks largely present one-sided narratives of the conflict between the two peoples and tend to ignore the existence of the other side, but rarely resort to demonization, a U.S. State Department-funded study released Monday said. The study by Israeli, Palestinian and American researchers, billed as setting a new scientific standard, tackled a fraught issue — Israeli claims that Palestinians teach hatred of Israel and glorify violence in schoolbooks. » Read more

Academic Study Weakens Israeli Claim That Palestinian School Texts Teach Hate ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - February 3, 2013 - 1:00am An academic study of the contents of Israeli and Palestinian Authority textbooks, to be published Monday, finds that each side generally presents the other as the enemy, but it undermines recent assertions by the Israeli government that » Read more