Overview
- Palestinian Media Watch published a special report on August 25 that presents quoted passages, screenshots from official school Facebook pages and classroom examples it says show PA-run schools praising the October 7 attacks.
- The report cites assemblies and a victory march in which students recited lines that the authors describe as glorifying the violence, and it highlights classroom materials including math problems framed around Israeli deaths and Hamas fighters.
- PMW holds the PA Ministry of Education, school administrators, teachers and Fatah’s education apparatus responsible and calls for their removal and supervised replacement to stop what it calls systematic indoctrination.
- The findings in the coverage are drawn from PMW’s compilation and published school posts and exercises; the articles report these allegations without independent verification or a response from Palestinian Authority officials.
- Coverage is shaped by source perspective: the pieces republishing the PMW report lean right and critics describe PMW as partisan, while the issue ties back to broader debates over textbooks, aid conditions and educational oversight after the October 7 attacks.