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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.
The Israeli Supreme Court has a long history of ignoring the human rights of Jews.
If it does not end its incitement and collaboration with terror, the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency must be defunded.
More than 1,000 people died because of the Israeli politician’s concessions to Palestinian terrorists.
The U.S. peace plan calls for Palestinian education reform, and the context cannot be ignored; 20 years of research show that the PLO has transformed Palestinian schools into a tool of war against Israel.
The overall sentiment of Palestinians is that their government is corrupt. Of 1,200 Palestinians polled, 95.5 percent agreed that there was rampant corruption in the regime run by Mahmoud Abbas.