There is no tolerance for anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence.
"There is no tolerance for anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence. There is no place in classrooms for textbooks that go against these basic principles," said EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, explaining why Hungary vetoed the resumption of EU aid to the Palestinians.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced in Ramallah that after two years, the European Union will soon end the blocking of aid to the Palestinians. However, this will not be easy, because Olivér Várhelyi, the commissioner responsible for neighborhood policy and enlargement, announced that the European Commission is investigating the matter for the second time.
All member states except Hungary voted to support the Palestinians.
The Presidency of the European Parliament reacted angrily to the Hungarian EU Commissioner's veto: "We would like to remind the Commissioner that such a study already exists, and we encourage him to spend the money on Palestinian humanitarian needs instead of funding another one."
There is indeed a study that looked at the text of Palestinian school textbooks, but this is despite the very restrained language of the Brussels bureaucracy
it contains relevant statements that largely justify the Hungarian veto.
Let's look at some examples from the report of the Georg Eckert Institute in Berlin, according to which in the textbooks for Palestinian children:
- There is no state of Israel, nor Israeli cities: "Maps depicting Greater Palestine usually do not indicate the state of Israel or the settlements established by Jewish immigrants."
- Palestinian terrorists who kill civilians are called heroic martyrs (shahid): "The term martyr is used almost exclusively in the context of the conflict, for those persons who were killed during violent attacks against Israel."
- They deny pre-Islamic Jewish history: "Three Islamic textbooks mention Jews and Judaism primarily in the context of early Islam."
- They demonize the Israelis: "Arabic language textbooks provide emotionally heightened descriptions of Israeli violence in which they seek to dehumanize the Israeli enemy."
We could go on and on, but from the above it can be seen that the contents are deeply opposed to the fundamental values of the European Union, and not in individual cases, but systematically.
The question is therefore rather how the other member states can use EU citizens' money to vote for the promotion of terrorism and violence in the Palestinian school system?
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