International Media Cover TFI Call for EU Funding-Cut to Palestinian Authority over Incitement in Textbooks

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International Media Cover TFI Call for EU Funding-Cut to Palestinian Authority over Incitement in Textbooks

On 7 October, a cross-party group of 21 Members of the European Parliament from 15 countries have urged the EU to partially withhold funding to the Palestinian Authority until Ramallah ends its antisemitic incitement in school textbooks. 

Citing the most recent research(link is external) by IMPACT-se, MEPs associated with the Transatlantic Friends of Israel (TFI) interparliamentary group also asked the EU executive branch in an open letter to discontinue its collaboration with the Georg Eckert Institute. The Germany-based institute was tasked in 2019 with analyzing the Palestinian textbooks but a presentation of its interim report has revealed a series of grave professional errors.

Read the letter here.

Read the coverage of the letter here:

Die Welt: https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus217556034/Schwere-Fehler-in-EU-S...

Ynet: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ry11qn52ID

Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/international/meps-call-on-eu-commission-to-defund...

Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/eu-parliamentarians-hate-has...

The Algemeiner: https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/07/group-of-european-parliament-mps-c...