Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001465/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Moritz Körner (Renew)
The Commission commissioned a study by the Georg Eckert Institute on Palestinian textbooks in 2021, which showed that:
– A religious studies textbook asked students to discuss the ‘repeated attempts by the Jews to kill the prophet Muhammad’ and inquired about ‘other enemies of Islam’;
– A maths textbook illustrated Newton’s second law of motion using a picture of Palestinians hitting Israeli soldiers with slingshots;
– In science and maths books, terrorists were praised, and those killed were referred to as martyrs;
– A female terrorist who killed several Jews was cited as an example of female empowerment;
– Most maps replaced Israel with ‘Palestine’.
Can the Commission say, which of the above five issues no longer persists? If the Commission does not know, why does it not know?
Submitted: 9.4.2025