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David Bedein

David Bedein

David Bedein is director of the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research.

Promises to change the curriculum, even when made to donor states, are not technical commitments but political impossibilities. The curriculum reflects ideology, not neutral pedagogy.
P.A. textbooks paint the land’s Jewish history as a lie, demonize Jews and encourage their murder.
A generation of Palestinian children were trained for war, leading directly to Oct. 7.
Conflict journalism can change the discourse.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini must be asked why he does not end incitement, corruption and the training of child soldiers.
The U.N. agency teaches mass murder to Palestinian Arabs.
The Israeli government and media prevented anyone from knowing that the PLO had failed to ratify the Oslo Accords.
Will the U.S. follow its own policy of fostering Palestinian recognition of Israel?
The vast majority of opponents are sincere, but there are those who are acting in their own self-interest.