"The EU must review the conditions by which it gives funding to education in the Palestinian Authority, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi said Monday, after the release of an EU-sponsored report that found antisemitism and incitement in Palestinian textbooks.
'Firm commitment to fight antisemitism and engage with Palestinian Authority and UNRWA' – the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants – 'to promote quality education for Palestinian children and ensure full adherence to UNESCO standards of peace, tolerance, coexistence, non-violence in Palestinian textbooks,' Varhelyi tweeted.
The commissioner, the equivalent of a cabinet minister but for the entire EU, added: 'The conditionality of our financial assistance in the educational sector needs to be duly considered.'
Varhelyi’s remarks came the day after the European Commission released the report it sponsored on Palestinian Authority textbooks, four months after its completion, showing instances of antisemitism and incitement to violence..."