• IMPACT-SE's Report on Iranian Textbooks Discussed on Iranian VOA Program
  March 25, 2008
  IMPACT-SE's Researcher Shayan Arya participated in an hour long discussion on the popular Persian program "Round Table," produced by Voice of America (VOA), regarding the Iranian school curriculum and IMPACT-SE's report. Dr. Saeed Paivandi of Paris-8 University, who just published a similar report regarding Iran's educational system under the Islamic regime for the Freedom House, also participated.

• IMPACT-SE's Report on the Palestinian Authority in the World Media - Feb. - March 2008
  This is a partial list of news articles on IMPACT-SE's latest report on the Palestinian schoolbooks.

• IMPACT-SE's Report on Iran in the World Media - Jan. 2007 - March 2008
  IMPACT-SE's report on Iranian schoolbooks continues to be widely noticed by the media worldwide. In February and March 2008, three more articles were added to this partial list of news articles and blogs in several languages.

• AJC-CMIP Report: "Scant Progress in Revising Palestinian Textbooks" 
  March 20, 2008 (pdf, 28 kb)
  Seven years after the Palestinian Authority began publishing textbooks for use in West Bank and Gaza schools, there still is no recognition of the State of Israel and no advocacy of peace with it. Instead, the textbooks promote violent struggle, while hateful descriptions of Jews and the West remain prevalent.

• Analysis: "Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas"
  Dr. Arnon Groiss - March 2008 (pdf, 693 kb)
  This is our concluding analysis of the seven-year schoolbook publication project, which took place in the Palestinian Authority until 2006. It is based on the six reports issued by IMPACT-SE (formerly CMIP) since 1998, including our recent draft report on schoolbooks for grades 11 and 12. It examines the underlying principles in PA's attitude to the Other and to peace in the Middle East, which are revealed in the books. It also attempts to determine whether a shift took place in this respect during the publication process, as a result of the major political changes in the Palestinian Authority. Briefly, it concludes that some improvement was noticeable in the schoolbooks published under Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, following the death of Yassir Arafat, but the older, uncompromising approach reappears under the Hamas-led government.

• Discussion Panel on "Iranian Textbooks: Preparing Iran’s Children for Global Jihad"
  Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, March 10, 2008
  As debates rage about Iran’s nuclear intentions, educational textbooks may serve as one of the more candid guides for discerning this regime’s worldview and ideology. IMPACT-SE researchers, Arnon Groiss and Shayan Arya, covered the Iranian report’s detailed findings and discussed the implications for the United States and the rest of the international community.
  Supporting document: PowerPoint Presentation (pdf, 1.23 mb)

• "Attitudes toward Jews in schoolbooks issued by the PA Ministry of Endowments & Religious Affairs"
  Briefing, Jerusalem, Jan. 8, 2008
  Eradicating incitement from Palestinian schools has been a central theme in negotiations since the Oslo accords. President Bush himself has demanded that educators "Teach values and moral responsibility in schools." In light of President Bush's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, IMPACT-SE is hosting this briefing to examine religious textbooks for 7th-12th grade students in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  Supporting documents:
  • Summary (pdf, 66 kb)
  • Presentation Slides (pdf, 466 kb)

• Special Interview with Dr. Arnon Groiss: "Iran Educates Children to 'Seek Martyrdom'"
  CBN News, Dec. 19, 2007
  During Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini sent thousands of Iranian children directly into minefields. He promised that they'd see heaven as their reward. Today's Iranian leadership is quite unpopular with its growing younger generation -- the Mullahs are attempting to reclaim this group one textbook at at a time... (click here to see the video)

• "Jihadist indoctrination in the schools" (pdf 14 kb)
  Washington Times, by Nir Boms, Dec. 17, 2007
  A new U.S. intelligence assessment suggests that Iran may have halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that its weapons program remains on hold. This revelation has created much consternation in Congress on both sides of the aisle...

• "Pakistan teachers concerned about new education policy" (pdf, 107 kb)
  Religious Intelligence Ltd - England, Dec. 2, 2007
  Article added in our "Additional Resources" section on a group of teachers in Pakistan who have attacked new plans to revise the country’s education policy.

• "Clouds Over Annapolis" (pdf, 21 kb)
  FrontPage Magazine, Nov. 28, 2007
  Article using CMIP's studies to demonstrate the importance of education reform as "not just a key factor for Israel and the Palestinians, but also for the Arab countries that are participating in the Conference as well."

• Pre-Annapolis Briefing on the Latest Developments in Israeli and Palestinian Authority School Education: The Newest Textbook Translations (pdf, 5 mb) - November 25, 2007
  This presentation was made for a press conference, which took place on November 25, 2007. It presents the Institute's latest findings on the fundamentals of Israeli and Palestinian education, i.e. their attitude to the "Other" and to peace with special emphasis on the latest books.
  Supporting documents:
  • Open Letter to the Delegations Taking Part in the Annapolis Summit (pdf, 49 kb)
  • Fundamentals of Palestinian Education Attitudes toward the "Other" and Peace in the New Palestinian Syllabus (pdf, 124 kb)

• Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli School Textbooks. Changing the Perception of the “Other” (pdf, 218 kb) - November 2007
  This article by Dr. Yohanan Manor was published in Israel on Israel, by Michel Korinman and John Laughland, Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (12 Nov 2007). The present analysis is based on the findings of two surveys carried out by CMIP on 500 Israeli school textbooks that were in use in the school years 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. On one hand, the results confirm other researchers' observation of a radical turning point that occurred in the middle of the 80s, and, on the other, they surpass them in highlighting an active preparation for coexistence with the Arabs and the Palestinians.

• State Sponsored Child Abuse in Iran: Iran’s violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (pdf, 155 kb)
  By Shayan Arya and Nir Boms - November 7, 2007
  As this paper shows, Iran is committing serious violations of the Convention on the Rights
  of the Child while cynically remaining a signatory. It has an intricate system of legislation
  that enables the government to veto its own constitution that secures children’s rights. It is
  endangering children by encouraging them to seek death and is instilling in them hatred
  toward different cultures and religions via its education curriculum.

• "Orwellian 'New-Speak', Iranian Style" - June 26, 2007
  This article was composed for The Henry Jackson Society, by Nir Boms, Vice President of the Center for Freedom in the Middle East. It deals with the alarming findings of recent research on Iranian school textbooks.

• "Palestinian School Books: Educating New Generations in Hate and Jihad?" - May 15, 2007
  CMIP has monitored the seven-year process, examining the attitude expressed in the books to the "other" and to peace. The findings are extremely worrying: The PA textbooks do not educate for peace with Israel. Rather, they promote the ideal of a violent struggle for liberation against Israel in its integrality.

• "Do recent Palestinian schoolbooks eliminate Israel from the Middle East?" - April 2007
  This is a letter composed by CMIP chairman, Dr. Yohanan Manor, in response to a debate held on Fox News on April 4, 2007, between Mr. Steve A. Emerson, Executive Director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and Ms. Diana Buttu, Former Legal Advisor to the PLO, on the subject of Palestinian and Israeli school textbooks.

• Response to Journal du Mardi - April 2007 (English - Français)
  This is a letter composed by CMIP chairman, Dr. Yohanan Manor, in response to an article on Israeli school textbooks published in the Belgian periodical Journal du Mardi (March/April 2007.)

• CMIP Presents its Report on Iran in Europe - Jan. 30 - Feb. 8, 2007
  Between January 30 and February 8, CMIP's chairman, Dr. Yohanan Manor, and its director of research, Dr. Arnon Groiss, presented the findings of CMIP's report on Iranian school textbooks in several major cities in Europe. Below are photographs taken during CMIP events in the European Union and the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels:

From left to right:
Dr. Groiss, CMIP's director of research, presenting the latest report at the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, January 30, 2007
CMIP event at EU in Brussels, January 30, 2007
MP. Geoffrey van Orden hosting CMIP event at EU, January 30, 2007

• Testimony of an Iranian Woman: Ms. Ghazal Omid - Feb. 8, 2007
  On February 8, 2007, Ms. Ghazal Omid--Human Rights, Women Rights and political activist, author of Living in Hell, and a Shi'a Islam scholar--presented her testimony at the British House of Commons, as an Iranian woman who had experienced the Iranian educational system. This is the contents of her testimony.

• "Iran's Global War Curriculum" (pdf, 323 kb) - Jan. 10, 2007
  This is an article published by Dr. Arnon Groiss, in Geopolitical Affairs, Spring 2007 (Vol.1, No.1). It attempts to present an outline of the Iranian worldview and agenda, based on CMIP's study of 95 school textbooks of all grades published in 2004 and 20 teacher’s guides published mostly since 2000. English  (pdf, 323 kb) - French (pdf, 2.49 mb) - German (pdf, 2.48 mb)

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