PA teacher taught Balfour Declaration for exam only
Palestinian TV broadcast an interview with Mustafa Othman, an Arab teacher in Israel, in which he describes what he teaches Israeli Arab youth in Israeli schools:
"I used to teach about the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration, in relation to us, from 1917 November 2nd, was a curse… In the Jordanian curriculum – or the Palestinian one, permit me to say – this material was studied on the basis [of the fact] that they [Israel] occupied our country by force of arms, stole it, destroyed its homes, expelled its people from the towns and from the villages. When I taught the Israeli curriculum, I told the students, 'It's only for the exam, you shouldn't consider it as information.' We may say that the Balfour Declaration is a victory for Zionism."
"I used to teach about the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration, in relation to us, from 1917 November 2nd, was a curse… In the Jordanian curriculum – or the Palestinian one, permit me to say – this material was studied on the basis [of the fact] that they [Israel] occupied our country by force of arms, stole it, destroyed its homes, expelled its people from the towns and from the villages. When I taught the Israeli curriculum, I told the students, 'It's only for the exam, you shouldn't consider it as information.' We may say that the Balfour Declaration is a victory for Zionism."
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