Israeli school textbooks in 1999 portrayed Palestinians through racialized violent stereotypes.

Evidence

A major study of Israeli school textbooks in 1999 found that these textbooks “portrayed Palestinians as ‘murderers,’ ‘rioters,’ ‘robbers,’ ‘bloodthirsty,’ and generally backward and unproductive.” — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 443

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Edward Said’s Orientalism thesis about Western racialized representations of Arabs, and to the broader pattern of colonial educational indoctrination.
  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: which study was this, and has a parallel update study been done since 1999 to see whether the portrayals have changed?