OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM —
East Jerusalem education
officials have said that hundreds of books teaching the Palestinian Authority's
curriculum have been confiscated with police claiming they are incendiary
materials.
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Since the beginning of the school year,
police have commenced using a new policy of detaining students and searching
their bags, even if they are just passing through the eastern part of the city
on their way to school. They have continuously confiscated textbooks depicting
the
Palestinian flag, Haaretz reported.
Epistemological violence and resistance
Around 300 pupils attend three high schools
in the Al-Aqsa compound, two for boys and one for girls. The Waqf, the
Jordanian custodian of Muslim holy sites in the region, supervises the schools,
which teach the
Palestinian Authority's curriculum, as do over 80 percent of
schools in East Jerusalem.
One student, Ibrahim, says that he was
stopped by police and told to "open the bag." He said that when
police saw Palestinian flags in his books, they confiscated them. Another
student, Muhammad, says his geography book was confiscated. "They did it
to a lot of my friends from school. The teacher sent us the book on WhatsApp,
so we could learn," he added.
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