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Tuesday, 7 August 2018

The Islamic school that ensures its boys understand the Israeli point of view

The private Abrar Academy is pioneering a groundbreaking method of teaching the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict

More than 550,000 students took GCSE history this summer, says Michael Davies, a history teacher at Lancaster Royal Grammar, a selective state boys’ school in Lancashire. “Of those, only 2,200 had studied Israel and Palestine. In comparison, 70,000 had studied the history of the American West.”

At Abrar Academy, a private Muslim boys’ school based in a former Methodist church in Preston, this year’s GCSE cohort did not take the Israel/Palestine option. Like so many schools of all dominations, they studied the first world war instead.

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