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Under consideration PE2169: Facilitate a review and upgrade of the teaching resource ‘Palestine and Israel, understanding the conflict’

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to facilitate a review and upgrade of the teaching resource ‘Palestine and Israel, understanding the conflict’ to assist understanding and debate in the security of classrooms.

Background information

For the Palestinian under military occupation, the past 18 months have been an experience of utter barbarity at the hands of Israel, the occupying power. In Scotland pupils are asking the question “why?” The need for context has never been so urgent. Scotland’s pupils and teachers must avoid dependency on internet searches for a balanced, honest, reliable and trustworthy resources to assist understanding and debate. In schools this context is addressed by the educational resource “Palestine & Israel, understanding the conflict”, a basic primer for secondary school pupils, developed and quality assured under Education Scotland in 2015/16. This resource has proven to be important to those school students studying Israel Palestine as part of their Social/Modern Studies/Religious or Peace studies. However, the situation is now such that few would disagree with the urgent need to review and upgrade this resource, now hosted on the EIS website. For this purpose, a Working Group was constituted in June 2024.

  • Created by Hugh Mitchell Humphries on behalf of Scottish Friends of Palestine
  • Considered from 29 May 2025
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