New textbooks attribute the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s roots to Arab rejection of the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan.
Azerbaijan has become the first Muslim-majority country to incorporate a definition of antisemitism into its textbooks, which offer positive portrayals of both Jews and Israel, a British think tank said on Thursday.
The findings in “Israel and Jews in Azerbaijani Education,” a review of the educational system in the predominantly Shi’ite country, are the latest signs of the friendly relations between the South Caucasus nation and the Jewish state.
The report by IMPACT–se (the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education), an NGO based in London, highlights positive portrayals of Jews and Israel in the textbooks in Azerbaijan, as well as recognition of the Holocaust as mass genocide in which six million Jews were murdered.
