PA Ministry of Education teaches children that Israel does not exist

Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the PA Ministry of Education

Posted text: “Today, [Nov. 16, 2021,] the [PA] Ministry [of Education] marked Palestinian Keffiyeh Day (i.e., Arab headdress) in all the homeland’s schools, which takes place simultaneously with the State of Palestine’s declaration of independence (see note below -Ed.).”

The image shows a man speaking at a podium. Behind him on the left is a poster featuring the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine” in the colors of the Palestinian flag with a keffiyeh pattern overlaid on it.

Text on poster: “My homeland”

Behind the speaker on the right is another poster with the PA map of “Palestine” on it.

Text on poster: “Palestine – the entire land is ours, from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River”

Palestinian declaration of independence - On Nov. 15, 1988, before the Palestine National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile in Algeria, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat declared the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Although the borders were not specified in the declaration, it recognized the UN partition plan of 1947, which called for the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in the former British Mandate for Palestine.