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Israeli Consulate Launches Times Square Billboard Campaign Condemning PA’s ‘Terror-Fueled Education’
A virtual billboard in Times Square, New York, organized by the Israeli Consulate in New York. Photo: Screenshot
The Israeli Consulate in New York launched on Wednesday a virtual billboard campaign in Times Square, Manhattan, that calls for an end to funding for Palestinian Authority-run schools because they promote hatred and terrorism against Israel and Jews.
The virtual billboard displays an image of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and a message that says: “They teach hate in Palestinian Authority schools. No funding when education fuels terror.” The consulate debuted the billboard campaign in cooperation with the public diplomacy division of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. It will run for one week in Times Square.
“The Palestinian Authority’s incitement machine is well-oiled and well-funded — since its establishment,” Ambassador Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York, told The Algemeiner. “In their textbooks, Israel doesn’t exist at all, and Jews are portrayed as pigs and monkeys. This is not education for peace; it’s wild incitement that starts from early childhood, through elementary schools and up to high school.”
“Not only is this not a path to reconciliation or peace — it’s exactly the opposite,” the ambassador added. “This is how they educate, in violation of all agreements, to hate Israel and promote terror, paving the way — in their eyes — for more events like Oct. 7.”
Some kids hate school.
Some schools teach hate.In Palestinian Authority schools, hate is part of the curriculum.
Consul General @Ofir_Akunis :
“We will expose the PA’s incitement machine—spreading lies and hatred through media and education—right in the heart of Times Square.”… pic.twitter.com/PIEh58fSPl— Israel in New York (@IsraelinNewYork) April 23, 2025
PA-sanctioned educational materials have been repeatedly criticized over the years for promoting antisemitism and inciting violence and hatred against Israel and the Jewish people. Last year, the PA promised the European Union it would reform its educational material to be in line with UNESCO’s standards of peace and tolerance in education, in exchange for continued funding from the EU.
However, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) released a report last month showing how PA-sanctioned textbooks used as part of the 2024-2025 curriculum in Gaza schools promote antisemitic stereotypes, glorify violence and martyrdom, praise the deadly Hamas attacks across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and hail the terrorists who carried out the deadliest assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust as “heroes” and “symbols of pride.”
These antisemitic and anti-Israel educational lessons that are being taught to nearly 300,000 Palestinian school children in grades 1-12 across Gaza do not show the state of Israel on a map and are filled with “graphic depictions of violence,” according to IMPACT-se.
“Palestinian classrooms remain a breeding ground for extremism, with new educational materials reinforcing the same old dangerous narratives,” IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff said in a statement accompanying the release of the report.
The new billboard campaign in Times Square will help “expose the Palestinian Authority’s poison machine to the world,” Akunis said in a released statement.
“Since its establishment, the Palestinian Authority has operated a well-oiled poison machine of incitement and lies against the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” he noted. “They do this systematically through both their media and education system. We will remove the PA’s masks before the world, especially in one of the world’s central arenas: Times Square.”
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Trump Is Lying When He Speaks of Peace
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2025. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Donald Trump on Saturday of lying when the US president said during his Gulf tour this week that he wanted peace in the region.
On the contrary, said Khamenei, the United States uses its power to give “10-ton bombs to the Zionist (Israeli) regime to drop on the heads of Gaza’s children.”
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates on Friday that Iran had to move quickly on a US proposal for its nuclear program or “something bad’s going to happen.”
His remarks, said Khamenei, “aren’t even worth responding to.” They are an “embarrassment to the speaker and the American people,” Khamenei added.
“Undoubtedly, the source of corruption, war, and conflict in this region is the Zionist regime — a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor that must be uprooted; it will be uprooted,” he said at an event at a religious center in Tehran, according to state media.
Earlier on Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Trump speaks about peace while simultaneously making threats.
“Which should we believe?” Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran. “On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing.”
Tehran would continue Iran-US nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats. “We are not seeking war,” Pezeshkian said.
While Trump said on Friday that Iran had a US proposal about its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received any such proposal. “There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes…” he said.
Araqchi warned on Saturday that Washington’s constant change of stance prolongs nuclear talks, state TV reported.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that America repeatedly defines a new framework for negotiations that prolongs the process,” the broadcast quoted Araqchi as saying.
Pezeshkian said Iran would not “back down from our legitimate rights”.
“Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region,” he said.
A fourth round of Iran-U.S. talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.
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Hamas Confirms New Gaza Ceasefire Talks with Israel in Qatar on Saturday
Doha, Qatar. Photo: StellarD via Wikimedia Commons.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel is underway in Qatar’s Doha, Hamas official Taher al-Nono told Reuters on Saturday.
He said the two sides were discussing all issues without “pre-conditions.”
Nono said Hamas was “keen to exert all the effort needed” to help mediators make the negotiations a success, adding there was “no certain offer on the table.”
The negotiations come despite Israel preparing to expand operations in the Gaza Strip as they seek “operational control” in some areas of the war-torn enclave.
The return to negotiations also comes after US President Donald Trump ended a Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire, although he acknowledged Gaza’s growing hunger crisis and the need for aid deliveries.
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Report: ICC’s Khan Goes on Administrative Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Probe
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
i24 News – Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan has stepped down temporarily as an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct by United Nations investigators is nearing its final phase, Reuters reported on Friday citing sources from the international court.
Khan allegedly forced sexual intercourse upon a member of staff on multiple occasions, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, linking the allegations to Khan’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
A statement is expected later today announcing that Khan is going on administrative leave, according to a source in the prosecutor’s office.
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