The United Nations Report On Anti-Semitism That Was Never Published

Judeosphere
14 May '10

Thirty-five years ago, historian Norman Stillman wrote an article for the journal Jewish Social Studies, highlighting the worrisome growth of classic anti-semitic tropes (such as the “blood libel”) in Arab media.

Of particular note, especially in retrospect:

There is one instance where hard-core data are available with regard to the dissemination of the new antisemitism in the Arab East, namely the report of a UNESCO commission of outside experts on 127 textbooks used in the UNRWA camps in East and West Bank Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon. The report was presented to the Eighty-second Session in Paris on 4 April 1969. It has never been published but is available in typescript.

The commission recommended that fourteen texts be withdrawn, 65 used only after modification, and 48 of the original 127 be retained. One of the criteria upon which the commission based its recommendations was as follows:

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