Sukkot Visits Kafr Aqab School, Says Terror-Linked Schools Should Lose Funding

Under heavy security, Knesset Education Committee chairman Zvi Sukkot visited a school in Kafr Aqab, in northern Jerusalem, on Thursday morning. During the tour, local Arabs threw stones at him. The school receives millions of shekels from Israel’s Education Ministry but is said to teach Palestinian Authority curricula that include incitement to terrorism.

Sukkot’s visit was part of a series of oversight tours of educational institutions in the Arab sector aimed, he said, at stopping violence and preventing education for crime and terror. As part of that campaign, he is pushing to cut state funding for schools that teach against cooperation with Israel and promote material that incites violence.

He said the school system in Kafr Aqab benefits from tens of millions of shekels in Education Ministry funding, while many of its schools are teaching students content that encourages terror incitement from the Palestinian Authority. “We are here today to make clear that the party is over,” Sukkot said. “Anyone who incites terror and encourages support for terrorists should be shut down today, and certainly should not get a single shekel from the state.”

He added that the Palestinian Authority encourages and funds “murderers with blood on their hands,” and warned that a child educated today against Israel and taught PA materials that encourage terror “is the next terrorist.”