(National-UAE) An Austrian school textbook that described Hamas as a “resistance movement” has been rewritten under official orders.
The geography book for secondary school pupils is being modified in light of the war in Gaza triggered by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
A group of MPs called the wording one-sided and “highly problematic” because Hamas is classed as a terrorist organisation in Austria.
Education officials approached the publishers after deciding that the text “no longer reflects the current scholarship.”
An altered page will be sent to schools to distribute in class, Education Minister Martin Polaschek wrote in a letter to MPs which did not reveal the new wording.
