Ireland maintains one of the European Union’s most critical stances toward Israel, having recognized Palestinian statehood in May without Israel’s participation.
Ireland’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment is under mounting pressure to overhaul its textbook review procedures following a damaging report that exposes systematic inaccuracies in how Jewish history and Israel are presented to students.
The report, published by the Jerusalem-based research institute IMPACT-se, identified concerning patterns across multiple textbooks used in Irish schools.
Among the most glaring examples is a 2020 religious studies text that incorrectly places Jesus’s birth in “Palestine,” rather than the historically accurate Judea.