PALESTINE
April 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has denied claims that it has been funding anti-Semitic textbooks used in the Palestinian Authority's education service, even though the EU bankrolls 50 per cent of the nascent government's budget.MEP's have been sent examples of Palestinian textbooks that include passages such as "Treachery and disloyalty are character traits of the Jews and therefore one should beware of them." This has upset many members, such as German MEP Elmar Brok, chairman of the Parliament's foreign affairs committee, who has asked for more ...
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