Bipartisan bill would compel the US State Department to publish an annual report on the state of incitement in Palestinian Authority textbooks
O
ver the last few weeks, three important new bills were introduced on Capitol Hill that seek to strengthen the United States-Israel relationship.
Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York introduced bipartisan legislation that would extend the current mandate of the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad to include the Middle East and North Africa. The goal of the bill is to prevent the destruction of Jewish sites in the Middle East and North Africa.
Another bipartisan bill would compel the US State Department to publish an annual report on the state of incitement in Palestinian Authority textbooks.
The bill was introduced last Thursday by Zeldin and Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California, and is cosponsored by four other representatives, two from each party. The proposed legislation is the result of a report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), which monitors the teaching of peace and tolerance in textbooks across the Middle East.
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