Revealed: Swinney shuts down Israel-Palestine school resources after Israeli lobbying pressure
'The Israel-Palestine educational resources had already been ‘quality approved’ by Education Scotland before being removed as a learning and teaching resource
The deputy First Minister removed Education Scotland approved educational resources on Israel-Palestine after pressure from Jewish and pro-Israeli lobby groups, CommonSpace can reveal.
John Swinney, who is also Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, took the decision to remove the quality assured resources from the teaching and learning intranet system GLOW after a meeting with the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities in May last year, and ordered Education Scotland to conduct a review into the materials.
In August of this year, the deputy First Minister ordered Education Scotland to “pause all activity on the resources” until further notice, according to Education Scotland officials.
Swinney had previously told Education Scotland he was in favour of the development of high quality teaching and learning resources on the issue, despite the repeated insistence of some Jewish and pro-Israeli lobby groups that any educational materials on Israel-Palestine would inevitably lead to anti-Semitism and could not be produced in a balanced way.'
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