{"id":204492,"date":"2010-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204492"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:47:02","slug":"auto-insert-204492","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204492\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA response to \u201cFor the sake of the Nakba\u201d film shown on Israel\u2019s Channel 1 – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA response to “For the sake of the Nakba” film shown on Israel’s Channel 1<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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27 August 2010<\/p>\n

On 7 August, IBA Channel One's Royim Olam Programme broadcast a film made by David Bedein, titled “For the Sake of the Nakba”. The film contains many serious inaccuracies, which Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA drew to the attention of the host of Royim Olam Programme before it was shown. As a result, the programme showed in full the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Spokesperson’s rebuttal of the film’s allegations. Key elements of the rebuttal are outlined below for the record.<\/p>\n

The film states that an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA school held a memorial for a female suicide bomber, Ayat al-Akhras, and commissioned paintings of her throughout the school. The film shows murals of her inside a school. In fact the school in question is not Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s, nor do we have any affiliation with it. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA did not have a memorial for or commission paintings of Ayat al-Akhras. <\/p>\n

The film suggests that a mural of a suicide bomber is part of the entrance to an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA school in Dheisheh camp, West Bank. In fact it is not part of the school and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA has control over its own installations only. Like all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA installations in the West Bank, the installation head and the US-funded international team of Operation Support Officers verify neutrality through strict rules and regular inspections. <\/p>\n

The film states that Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA schools “adhere to a curriculum that inculcates anti-Israel teachings at every level” and quotes a 12th grade textbook. In fact Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA does not teach 12th grade and this is not an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA textbook. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA uses the Palestinian Authority curriculum, which a 2003 independent report commissioned by the United States concluded is “peaceful”, and one in which “religious and political tolerance is emphasized”. <\/p>\n

“The film simply does not portray reality in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA schools. Each day Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA teaches 500,000 Palestinian students and is committed to providing them with the tools and skills to expand their horizons and assist them towards self-reliance,” said Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Spokesperson Sami Mshasha.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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