Palestinian children ‘shown how to stab a Jew’, claims Israeli UN ambassador

Palestinian children are being taught how to stab a Jewish person as part of their being “brainwashed” with “incitement and hate”, according to Israel. Danny Danon, Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations, is urging the Security Council to make a statement against what he described as “the incitement that fuels terror”. During his speech, he held up a piece of card with a diagram of a human body entitled “How to Stab a Jew”, which he says is “an example of what Palestinian children are being exposed to day in and day out, in school, after school”.

When he opens a textbook, he doesn’t learn about math and science, he’s being taught to hate.

Danny Danon, Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations

Mr Danon accused Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of leading the “dangerous incitement” and of “spreading lies” saying Israel is trying to change the delicate status quo at Jerusalem’s holiest site the al Aqsa Mosque. The mosque has been at the root of recent tensions, which have seen attacks, deaths and injuries on both sides. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, told the council the issue of protection “has become more urgent than any time before” because of what he called Israeli aggression “against our defenceless Palestinian people”, including at the al Aqsa. The words come just hours after a Palestinian man posed as a journalist before stabbing and injuring an Israeli soldier. The soldier’s colleagues then killed the attacker.

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