Committee chair makes surprise visit to East Jerusalem Palestinian school, alleges incitement

Knesset member Zvi Sukkot, who chairs the Education Committee, carried out a surprise inspection on Thursday at a Palestinian school in Jerusalem that operates without a Education Ministry license and is run by the Waqf. During the visit, he said he found incitement materials, which police confiscated at the scene.

Sukkot, from the Religious Zionism party, then confronted the school principal. In remarks quoted from the visit, he said the school was in East Jerusalem and that the discovery showed a reality in which schools approved by the Jerusalem municipality “educate from age 0 to incitement,” which he called “unthinkable.”

He added, “Everything starts with education, and someone who grows up in a place where instead of the State of Israel there is Palestine, and every neighborhood in Jerusalem is a place where Zionist gangs expelled innocent residents, will never be a normal citizen in the State of Israel.” He ended by saying, “We will stop this celebration.”

The report says the school is Palestinian, located in Jerusalem, and under Waqf operation. The visit was presented as part of Sukkot’s oversight role as Education Committee chair, and the encounter with the principal was documented on video.