The ministry’s statement on the book followed complaints by Jewish students and parents over the description in the book of Israel’s establishment as the result of widespread murder of Palestinian villagers.
A Dutch history book for vocational high schools omits Arab atrocities against Jews and describes Israel’s establishment as result of widespread murder of Palestinians.
Israel’s government vehemently rejected a three-year study led by a Yale University professor of Israeli and Palestinian textbooks that commended both sides for not demonizing one another, but called on them to ameliorate negative portraits of each other.
