Adam Kredo writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing piece of Palestinian schoolchildren’s education.
Palestinian Authority-run schools in the West Bank are glorifying Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree, using the Israeli death toll to teach third graders math lessons and hosting school-wide assemblies where children publicly commit to “cool the fire in our heart with the body parts and screams of soldiers,” among many other such examples, according to a new investigation obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
The celebration of Oct. 7 inside these primary and secondary schools, reported here for the first time, is fueling fresh concerns at the State Department about the fledgling PA’s fitness to govern in the Gaza Strip as it jockeys for a central role in President Donald Trump’s reconstruction plan. Multiple U.S. officials confirmed to the Free Beacon that the PA is violating promises to end terror incitement, potentially disqualifying it from overseeing Gaza schools, where for years Hamas has taught children to hate Israel and Jews.
The PA’s schools have long been notorious for exposing schoolchildren to virulently anti-Israel as well as antisemitic ideology. But antisemitic indoctrination in the West Bank has soared to new levels following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, which is now being routinely glorified by PA schools and worked into children’s lessons, including into completely unrelated subjects such as math.
The new investigation — assembled through pictures, videos, and documentation unearthed by the Israeli watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) — reveals how the PA school system has fully integrated Oct. 7 into its lesson plans and also organized school-wide ceremonies where children recite poems praising the Hamas fighters who raped, tortured, and murdered more than 1,200 Israelis. Further, the materials unearthed by PMW show that the glorification in West Bank schools of Oct. 7 extends well beyond biased textbook passages or lesson plans, and is fully embraced by teachers and administrators across the West Bank.
