For the first time since it occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel is forcing its own curriculum onto every new grade in the city's schools, with 45,000 Palestinian students now pushed into the Israeli system. It is one front in a systematic campaign to erase Palestinian education: Israel has seized UNRWA's schools, refused to renew Palestinian teachers' permits, forcing private schools to suspend classes, and is secretly surveilling Palestinian teachers, three-quarters of every four it targets. As it purges Palestinian teachers, Israel has launched a program to import Jewish teachers from North America. Read more: qudsnen.com/share/68264?lang=en