Given that the PA continues to teach this ideology to children yet another generation of Palestinians is growing up believing Israel has no right to exist, and peace is being pushed farther away.
The Palestinian Authority unremittingly teaches Palestinians - and in particular youth - that all of Israel is “Palestine” and that Israel has no right to exist in any borders. One way the PA instills the message is through activities in summer camps arranged by the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports.
This year too, Palestinian children were taught that there is no Israel but only “occupied Palestine” as they spent time drawing maps in which all of Israel and the PA areas are painted as one country and in the colors of the Palestinian flag.
The following are maps of “Palestine” made by or shown to children in the PA summer camps which are run by the PLO:
A video showed drawings of the PA’s map that shows all of Israel and the PA areas as one “Palestine” made by children in PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports summer camps.
[Facebook page of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Aug. 19, 2021]
Camp participants hold a drawing of the PA map of “Palestine” in the colors of the Palestinian flag. To the west of the map is written “The Mediterranean Sea,” to the north is written “Lebanon,” to the east is written “Jordan,” and to the south is written “The Gulf of Aqaba.”
[Facebook page of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Aug. 4, 2021]
Camp participants have drawn the PA map of “Palestine.”
[Facebook page of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Aug. 7, 2021]
Palestinian Media Watch has reported on other messages that were taught this year in Palestinian summer camps, which included teaching that terrorist murderers like Dalal Mughrabi are role models and that they should “boycott the enemy.”
Interviews with Palestinian children show that kids have internalized these messages, repeating that “Palestine” should be “liberated”: