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Saudi textbooks remove or tone down antisemitic content

A review of Saudi Arabia’s 2020-2021 schools curriculum has revealed that school textbooks had been revised to remove or tone down antisemitic content.

The educational research institute IMPACT-se found that among the tropes removed was that Jews control and manipulate the world. Its CEO said that the trend has been observable since the early 2000s, but that the new 2020 textbooks “represent an institutional effort to modernise the Kingdom’s curriculum.

A chapter questioning Israel’s right to exist has also been removed.

While many controversial ideas were excised, problems still remain, according to the report. Zionism, for example, is still presented as a racist movement and the term “Zionist enemy” is still common.

The report also points out that moderation efforts have been tried and failed before, so “more time” was needed to determine if the changes are permanent.

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