The Israel Institute of New Zealand has launched a petition which calls on the New Zealand government to stop supporting hate: https://stopsupportinghate.nz/
This is in the wake of a new report that exposes an ongoing issue. For decades there has been evidence that UNRWA schools taught children to glorify terror and hate Jews. The latest report contains 25 examples from 10 different UNRWA schools of material that violates UN values, UNESCO standards, and UNRWA’s supposed “zero-tolerance” policy for discrimination or for incitement to hatred and violence in its schools.
The examples were taken from institutional teaching materials created by UNRWA’s own education departments and staff, labelled for use during the current 2022-23 academic school year as well as the 2021-22 school year.
They include:
  • Images of a 5th grade UNRWA classroom blackboard displaying a large photo of Dalal Mughrabi along with text venerating her. Dalal led an attack on Israeli civilians that killed 38, including 13 children. The United Nations has designated her a terrorist. The PA textbooks call her act one of “defiance and heroism, which made her memory immortal in our hearts and minds”.
  •  A reading comprehension exercise in 9th grade Arabic Language study material created by UNRWA that contains a story about a Palestinian firebombing attack on a Jewish bus near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The reading comprehension text celebrates the attack as a “barbecue party” (haflat shiwaa).
The full report can be found at
If our government was funding schools that glorified the Christchurch terrorist or taught children a curriculum that demonised and dehumanised Maori, we would be equally outraged.
We hope you will sign and share the petition: https://stopsupportinghate.nz/