In a series of Parliamentary answers, the aid minister, Alistair Burt, has declared that British taxpayers are funding the salaries of 33,000 teachers who are applying a school curriculum that has been criticised for promoting violence against Israel.
It is said that over £20 million of British aid money has been utilised on Palestinian schools in the past year, despite MPs knowing the official curriculum could propel students to become jihadists or martyrs.
A report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (Impact-SE), said it “exerts pressure over young Palestinians to acts of violence”.
Some of the lessons being taught by British-funded teachers include a maths textbook for nine-year-olds that ask students to calculate the number of martyrs in Palestinian uprising, as well as a textbook for 10-year-olds that calls jihad and martyrdom “the most important meanings of life”.
