White pages: Israeli censorship of Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem

Transcending enclosures by bus: Public transit protests, frame mobility, and the many facets of colonial occupation

“…Sela, 2017), the censorship of Palestinian textbooks (e.g. Alayan, 2017), the surveillance and censorship of media, including news media, social media, and even Israeli news reporting addressing anything about Palestinians (e.g. Kuntsman and Stein, 2015; Matar, 2019), even the attempted erosion of the Palestinian imagination (e.g.…”

The new Palestinian textbooks: A strategy for national identity and self‐determination

“…Along the theme of a religious identity, the textbooks explain to the students that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine because of religious ties, as Palestinians are both Christian and Muslim. This marks a departure from the older textbooks that did not extensively incorporate Christians as a distinct, Palestinian narrative (Alayan, 2017).…”

“…The textbooks recognised the Green Line 1 and the Partition Plan of 1947 2 and presented the history of Jews in the land of Palestine. The PNA presented Judaism and Jewish people apart from Zionist, and the conflict as being between Palestinians and Zionist ideology, not between themselves and Jewish people or the State of Israel (Alayan, 2012(Alayan, , 2017.…”

“…Textbooks serve to establish social norms and to transmit the state's historical and political perceptions. Therefore, changing textbooks is a political act that serves to define the collective consciousness of a community and the nation‐state (Alayan, 2017). The case of Palestine is no different.…”

“…The initial textbooks were developed in successive phases, as the previously mentioned split system remained in use until gradually replaced (Mazawi, 2011). Palestinians having primary responsibility for their curriculum content began in the 2000s when the PMoE produced its first textbooks around 2000 and was completed in 2006/2007 (Alayan, 2017; Hussain, 2013).…”