Israel claims Palestinian children ‘shown how to stab a Jew’

Palestinian children are being taught how to stab a Jewish person as part of their being "brainwashed" with "incitement and hate", according to Israel.

Danny Danon, Israel's new ambassador to the United Nations, urged the Security Council to make a statement against what he described as "the incitement that fuels terror".

During his speech he held up a piece of card with a diagram of a human body entitled "How to Stab a Jew", which he says is "an example of what Palestinian children are being exposed to day in and day out, in school, after school".

He said: "When a Palestinian child returns from school and opens (sic) the television, he doesn't see Barney or Donald Duck, he sees murderers portrayed as heroes.

"When he opens a textbook, he doesn't learn about math and science, he's being taught to hate."

Holding up the picture, he said: "We talk about a lot about incitement – here you see what Palestinian incitement looks like.

"The picture is being taught in middle schools, in high schools, in elementary schools.

"Instead of educating about peace and tolerance, the Palestinian leadership is brainwashing children with incitement and hate.

"Palestinian leaders have established an incubator to raise children as terrorists."

Danon accused Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of leading the "dangerous incitement" and of "spreading lies" saying Israel is trying to change the delicate status quo at Jerusalem's holiest site the al Aqsa Mosque.