Everyone knows about the UNRWA schoolbooks that are full of antisemitic texts, and the annual objection to them made by Western donors, who demand that those texts be revised. UNRWA solemnly promises to correct the problem, but it never happens, and those insidious texts continue to poison young minds in UNRWA schools. But it’s not only UNRWA schoolbooks that are inculcating antisemitism. School textbooks in Ireland are just as guilty. More on the antisemitism in Irish schoolbooks can be found here: “Irish School Textbooks Disparage Judaism, Defame Israel, Watchdog Finds,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, November 5, 2024:
School textbooks in Ireland foster antisemitic hatred, downplaying the horrors of the Holocaust and portraying Israel as the obstructive party in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new report.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (Impact-se), an Israeli education watchdog group, on Monday released the report, titled “European Textbooks: Ireland Review,” which revealed negative stereotypes and distortions of Israel, Judaism, and Jewish history. The findings were unveiled amid a surge in anti-Israel animus in Ireland and even the promotion of antisemitic conspiracies by government officials. Against this backdrop, Impact-se found that Irish textbooks authors have stuffed their works with content that is likely to further fuel such an environment.
In one example cited by the report, a history textbook for eleventh graders describes Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp in Poland where 1 million Jews were murdered during World War II, as a “prisoner of war camp” rather than an “extermination,” “concentration,” or “death camp.” Such a description “minimizes the unique and horrific nature of the Holocaust and the systematic extermination carried out there,” according to Impact-se.
In other textbooks — including Inspire – Wisdom of the World, a religious studies book distributed to students as young as 12 years old — Judaism is described as a war mongering religion which “believes that violence and war are sometimes necessary to promote justice.” Christianity and Islam are more favorably judged as aiming for “peace and justice” and, in the latter, resorting to war only in “self-defense, to defend Islam but not to spread Islam and to protect people who are oppressed.”
It surely must have been Muslims themselves who wrote this preposterous description of Islam as a faith that seeks “peace and justice” and claiming that Muslims resort to war only in “self-defense.” For 14 hundred years, Muslim armies have been spreading their version of “peace and justice” and supposedly making war only in “self-defense” — though no one was attacking them — by conquering many lands and peoples, and presenting those conquered with only three choices: to convert to Islam, to be killed, or to accept the status of dhimmi, subjecting themselves to a host of political, social, and economic disabilities, including the onerous capitation tax known as the jizyah.
The same book goes on to negate the charitable endeavors in which Jewish civil society organizations engage to ease the plight of the marginalized and poor, omitting them entirely from a section discussing efforts to combat homelessness.
“In this chapter, we are going to look at how some Christians and Muslims have responded to this issue by putting their faith into action. We are also going to look at how some non-religious people and organizations respond to homelessness,” Inspire says before continuing to show a series of graphics which present Christians, Muslims, and secular organizations as altruistic and conscientious….
Jews are left out of this discussion. Apparently Jews do not help the “marginalized and poor” the way Christians and Muslims do.
Similarly, the textbook oversimplifies the issue of Palestinian refugees, neglecting to clarify that the 5 million UN-recognized refugees are mainly descendants of the original refugees, rather than individuals who directly fled their homes,” Impact-se wrote in response to Inspire World‘s portrayal of the historical record. “This crucial distinction overlooks the fact that this is the only case in international law where refugee status is inherited through generations. As a result, the refugee crisis is portrayed as ongoing and substantial, while under normal international law, most of these 5 million people would not be considered refugees.
No one can coherently explain why it is that of the many tens of millions of refugees created by conflicts since World War II, only one group — the “Palestinians” — are allowed to treat their refugee status as an inheritable trait, passed down through the generations. In fact, if the “Palestinian” refugees were treated as all others have been, only 25,000 are still alive who were real refugees — that is, people who fled the area of what was still Mandatory Palestine until May 14,1948, and then became Israel on that date.
Something is now terribly wrong — historically, morally — in the Republic of Ireland. Perhaps Marcus Sheff’s devasting report on antisemitism in Irish schoolbooks will wake up some in Ireland to the dangerous levels of antisemitism that can now be observed in the Old Sod, not just tolerated but, rather, inculcated at every level.
sporticus says
A quick check online shows that a 3 year licence for the text costs 20 Euros.
That’s hopeful -maybe you’ll get free revised version when they come to their senses when the President of the USA drops in for a friendly visit.
The authors are Michael Purcell and Ailis Travers.
Travers has “Doctor Jill” type qualification, Ed.D (better EdD than DEd).
She is brave enough or foolish enough to tell you her intellectual pursuits:
“My doctoral research focuses on the use of iPads in Religious Education.”
Yes, it’s iPads and not tampons.
And iPads are ok in the boys toilets (iPads…what was Steve Jobs thinking? Weird).
I don’t know what Michael does…maybe just says Umm …yeah, when “Doctor” Ailis does her strange Jew thing. They killed Christ didn’t they, Michael. Umm…yeah, Doc, I suppose, morally speaking… um…yeah.
OPOVV says
I wouldn’t give the Muslims the time of day. Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. The EU must send them all back to their sand dunes.
Tom says
What has happened to the Irish who used to be so patriotic that they fought the Brits for years to try and win a “free Ireland.”
Where is that patriotic fervour that drove young men and women to sacrifice themselves all their lives for “the cause”.
Where is all that bravado we heard in the Irish rebel songs.
Have they capitulated and given over their land to invaders. If so why ?
somehistory says
The parents need to find out what their kids are being taught. Then teach them the Truth, whether or not they allow them to return to school.
Much of the Truth about islam is available free of charge….just come here and to Ms. Geller’s Reports, to Mr. Raymond Ibrahim’s site and read for a few days. Eyes will be opened regarding the ‘peace’ of islam…there is none because they war against everyone, each other and among their families.
The Irish children don’t stand a chance, otherwise.
40 rounds says
Textbooks worldwide in a nutshell: white people bad, all others virtuous
Donna says
Ireland needs a Make Ireland Great Again campaign!
Let’s go MIGA!
Adrian Fegan says
sickening
Adrian Fegan says
sickening
FYI says
There ARE groups in Ireland who reject the bogus, unobjective reportage about Israel and authentic Christians who reject such vicious Lefty ideology.
The media and political elite are so corrupt it beggars belief,Of course it wasn’t always so
A muslima who claims to be “Irish” claims the Irish like to joke too much for her liking
The Irish are accused by some newcomers as being “White supremacists”:they are not.The Irish were reluctantly part of the British Empire!!
Irish politicians i see are out canvassing for election with the usual politician tricks:kissing babies,having a dance with some smiley locals etc whilst ignoring awkward questions like..
Why are Christians now under persecution in Ireland?
What are all these military aged men from islamic lands doing in Ireland whilst increasing numbers of Irish are homeless?women are concerned,
Why are all these NGOS so corrupt?
Why are so many poiticians criminally corrupt?
Who do these polticians serve?The globalist elite clearly
One of the Greens apparently decided the population of Ireland should be doubled..without bothering to consult the people!
The Education people teach NONCERY to little kids
The politiclal elite pretend not to notice increasing crime and poverty that THEY have caused
The president of Ireland -who i believe to be an actual leprechaun-is happy to sign away the freedoms of the Irish people from his palatial palaceTypical lefty socialist!
sinn fein:Another week,another pedo exposed
The Greens:do not actually care about preserving the heritage or culture of the land …
FYI says
I see Teachers everywhere{In USA,Canada,UK,Ireland..}are now having to teach things that are clearly obscene.This is WOKE lefty communism.So a teacher who abstains is likely to be in a situation where they may have to resign!
So called christian church leaders remain silent.
So i will lampoon these lefty WOKE politician and bogus educators who promote noncery ..with word trickery,,
The question about a WOKE teacher needs to be asked.Let’s call him Willy Nonce.No suggestion that anyone with the surname nonce is a nonce but they could be,they could be.
The question about the WOKE teacher Willy Nonce is :will he nonce and will he ever show his . ..to the little kids?Because that would be inappropriate,Right?
When I was a kid we had Sesame Street,the muppet show,Nasty Dan sung by Johnny Cash and Oscar the Grouch,Mahna mahna..”wot you talking about willis”
40 rounds says
Totally correct about our churches
Rick Gordon says
What can an American individual do to register how repulsive this is to us?
gravenimage says
Irish Schoolbooks Inculcate Antisemitism
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The idea that bloody Islam is peaceful and Judaism is not is just grotesque.
Wellington says
Strongly seconded, gravenimage. Profound shame on the powers that be in Ireland for this monstrous mendacity.
Skeptiker says
Überall im Westen das gleiche. Zu viele muslimische Einwanderer sind keine Bereicherung für die Gesellschaft sondern eine gefährliche Unterwanderung. Komisch auch, dass man in Istanbul weniger Kopftücher sieht als beispielsweise in Berlin.