"that three percent of the total pages were inconsistent with the UN values of neutrality, gender equity and age-appropriateness.
To begin with, this three percent number is a total sham.
But second, regarding the offensive materials that it found - UNRWA didn't actually remove them. Instead, UNRWA says that it issued some additional materials for teachers to supplement this offensive material.
In other words, the shocking textual paragraphs, pictures, maps, poems, exercises, etc. are still widely used in UNRWA schools - just as before.
The same goes for other books that came out recently, which I just reviewed and included in my latest study of February 2018.
Below are examples of what can still be found in UNRWA teaching materials:
1. A terrorist attack on an Israeli civilian bus by molotov cocktails is described in a story as 'a barbecue party' [haflat shiwaa in Arabic] - Arabic Language, Grade 9, Part 1 (2017) p. 61.
2. A verse in a poem describes the fate of the Jews following the predicted Palestinian liberation of Israel: "I swear! I will sacrifice my blood to water the land of the noble ones, to remove the usurper [code name for Israel] from my land and to exterminate the remnants of the foreigners..." - Our Beautiful Language, Grade 3, Part 2 (2017) p. 64.
3. A picture of Dalal al-Mughrabi, who led the terrorist attack on an Israeli bus on the Coastal Highway in 1978, in which more than 30 civilians - men, women and children - were murdered. The photo appears alongside a text describing her as a martyr who 'painted with her struggle a picture of challenge and heroism which has made her memory eternal in our hearts and minds.' - Arabic Language, Grade 5, Part 2 (2017) p. 51...
Moreover, the whole attitude in the 2017 books used by UNRWA is war indoctrination 'for the liberation of Palestine,' with almost complete avoidance of the use of the name 'Israel' - and numerous demonizing descriptions using the term 'Zionist occupation.'
This war indoctrination is intensified by inserting remarks about various aspects of the conflict into non-related school subjects, such as biology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, history and religion.
In short, UNRWA has not really addressed any of the problems in its education curriculum."