Textbooks used in schools and academic institutions controlled by the Lebanon-based Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah are teaching children "egregious incitement to anti-Semitism and support for terrorism," a report published Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League said, calling for new sanctions against the organization.
The ADL said it decided to review the textbooks in question given Hezbollah's growing influence in Lebanon, where it virtually controls parliament.
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According to the report, titled, "Teaching Antisemitism and Terrorism in Hezbollah Schools", a review of two sixth-grade schoolbooks published by Mustafa Generation Publishing House and used by Hezbollah-controlled schools, showed that Jews are described as nothing short of "the enemies of humanity."
The books, titled "Islam is Our Message" and "The United States and History," deliver a hateful representation of the Jewish people from ancient to modern times, the ADL said.
"Judaism is a religion confined to the Jews, the masters of the world and the emperors of the universe, which nobody is entitled to belong to, no matter his station," the latter book states.
"This is what made them hated and outcast, and perhaps what intensified people's aversion to them: their unjustness, their arrogance, their greed, and their monopolizing."
According to the ADL, "Islam is our Message" teaches schoolchildren that "the Zionists are the enemies of humanity in the past, present, and future because of their attributes: deceit, treason, treachery, and breaking pacts."
ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt issued a statement staying, "It is shocking that children from kindergarten on up are being spoon-fed a diet of anti-Semitism, drawing on pernicious canards such as Jews are satanic, the Jews killed Christ, and the Jews are trying to undermine other religions to control the world.
"These hate-filled 'lessons' have no place in any school, but are especially dangerous in Lebanon, where Hezbollah grooms young people to become terrorist 'martyrs.'"
ADL lead analyst David A. Weinberg, who penned the report, noted, "While we have long known that Hezbollah uses dehumanizing propaganda to justify violence against Jews, our analysis of these school textbooks shows just how far Hezbollah's leaders will go to teach children to hate."
The ADL called on the US and other countries to sanction educational institutions linked to the Shiite terrorist group.
The advocacy group said that given Hezbollah's clear attempts to brainwash young potential recruits, academic institutions could be sanctioned under US anti-terrorism laws which, in turn, could prevent third-party institutions from supporting them.
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