Martin Polaschek’s ( Austrian People’s Party) Ministry of Education reacted quickly. And it had to, given the seriousness of the accusation. The terrorist organisation Hamas is referred to as a “resistance movement” in a domestic school textbook. The publisher should correct this quickly.
The textbook calls the terrorist terrorist gang Hamas an “Islamic resistance movement”. As if that were not enough, the authors of the textbook consider Hezbollah to be a “Lebanese organisation”. The book “Geography, History and Political Education” is intended for secondary school students and can currently be used in classrooms. Vienna’s responsible city councillor, Deputy Mayor Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS), was confronted by Daniella Spera, former director of the Jewish Museum and journalist, on a Puls24 talk show.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday that the Linz-based publisher had already been contacted The page will be “corrected” and forwarded to the affected schools by post and electronically. Spera is very pleased about this, he added.
Interesting: Austrian public broadcaster ORF presenter Armin Wolf also joined the debate on X. He criticised the fact that the textbook was written by nine men. “Sounds more like 1922 than 2022,” comments the ZiB news anchor.
In Schulbuch für unsere Kinder sind Terroristen der Hamas „Widerstandskämpfer” | Exxpress
