LIVING IN THE HOLY LAND AND NATIONAL CURRICULUM

Early day motion 2, tabled 9 May 2012 by Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 21 members.

That this House believes that life over the last 100 years in that part of the Middle East known as the Holy Land should form part of the National Curriculum for History so that pupils and students are taught how the State of Israel was created from the former administration of Palestine; and calls on the Secretary of State for Education to encourage the development of an outreach programme so that pupils and students can witness how Palestinians in the twenty first century live both in their former homelands and in refugee camps in neighbouring countries.

Signatures by party: Labour 11, Liberal Democrat 6, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1.