Israeli Consulate Launches Times Square Billboard Campaign Condemning PA’s ‘Terror-Fueled Education’

The Israeli Consulate in New York launched on Wednesday a virtual billboard campaign in Times Square, Manhattan, that calls for an end to funding for Palestinian Authority-run schools because they promote hatred and terrorism against Israel and Jews.

The virtual billboard displays an image of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and a message that says: “They teach hate in Palestinian Authority schools. No funding when education fuels terror.” The consulate debuted the billboard campaign in cooperation with the public diplomacy division of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. It will run for one week in Times Square.

“The Palestinian Authority’s incitement machine is well-oiled and well-funded — since its establishment,” Ambassador Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York, told The Algemeiner. “In their textbooks, Israel doesn’t exist at all, and Jews are portrayed as pigs and monkeys. This is not education for peace; it’s wild incitement that starts from early childhood, through elementary schools and up to high school.”

“Not only is this not a path to reconciliation or peace — it’s exactly the opposite,” the ambassador added. “This is how they educate, in violation of all agreements, to hate Israel and promote terror, paving the way — in their eyes — for more events like Oct. 7.”

Some kids hate school.
Some schools teach hate.

In Palestinian Authority schools, hate is part of the curriculum.

Consul General @Ofir_Akunis :
“We will expose the PA’s incitement machine—spreading lies and hatred through media and education—right in the heart of Times Square.”… pic.twitter.com/PIEh58fSPl

— Israel in New York (@IsraelinNewYork) April 23, 2025

PA-sanctioned educational materials have been repeatedly criticized over the years for promoting antisemitism and inciting violence and hatred against Israel and the Jewish people. Last year, the PA promised the European Union it would reform its educational material to be in line with UNESCO’s standards of peace and tolerance in education, in exchange for continued funding from the EU.

However, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) released a report last month showing how PA-sanctioned textbooks used as part of the 2024-2025 curriculum in Gaza schools promote antisemitic stereotypes, glorify violence and martyrdom, praise the deadly Hamas attacks across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and hail the terrorists who carried out the deadliest assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust as “heroes” and “symbols of pride.”

These antisemitic and anti-Israel educational lessons that are being taught to nearly 300,000 Palestinian school children in grades 1-12 across Gaza do not show the state of Israel on a map and are filled with “graphic depictions of violence,” according to IMPACT-se.

“Palestinian classrooms remain a breeding ground for extremism, with new educational materials reinforcing the same old dangerous narratives,” IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff said in a statement accompanying the release of the report.

The new billboard campaign in Times Square will help “expose the Palestinian Authority’s poison machine to the world,” Akunis said in a released statement.

“Since its establishment, the Palestinian Authority has operated a well-oiled poison machine of incitement and lies against the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” he noted. “They do this systematically through both their media and education system. We will remove the PA’s masks before the world, especially in one of the world’s central arenas: Times Square.”

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