Elon Musk emphasized the importance of changing the education system in Gaza during a trip to Israel on Monday to meet with leaders and see the sites of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
Musk, who has been accused of pushing antisemitic tropes in recent weeks, said it was "jarring" to see the jubilation of the Hamas terrorists who carried out the attacks after he watched a film put together by the Israeli government. The film has also been shown to journalists and elected leaders but has not been released to the public. It includes footage from the attackers themselves.
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“These people have been fed propaganda since they were children. And it’s remarkable what humans are capable of if they’re fed falsehoods from when they are children,” Musk said. “They will think that the murder of innocent people is a good thing. That is how much propaganda can affect people’s minds.”
He called for three objectives to be implemented as it relates to the rebuilding of Gaza following the war, which include the killing of militants who pose a threat to Israelis, an overhaul of the educational system, and the development of prosperity within the strip.
“Those that are intent on murder must be neutralized,” he said. “The propaganda must stop that is training people to be murderers in the future. And then, making Gaza prosperous. And if that happens, I think it will be a good future.”
The United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees is one of the primary bodies in Gaza responsible for providing education and social services to Palestinians, and it administers about half the schools in the Gaza Strip, according to the Jerusalem Post. The institution faced scrutiny following a U.N. Watch report that indicated staffers "immediately celebrated and justified" the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that ignited the war.
"We call on the governments that fund UNRWA to declare that they will stop enabling a system that teaches new generations of Palestinians to hate and murder Jews," U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer said, who also noted that the "hate that led to the October 7th massacre did not appear out of thin air" and "was inculcated at UNRWA schools over many years."
Last year, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education published a report alleging that UNRWA curricula radicalized students through texts and examples that included antisemitic premises or glorified violence against Israelis and Jews.
In one grammar activity, according to the report, students are prompted to “find the subjunctive verb in the following sentences,” one of which is “The Palestinians sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem." Israel, which is not featured on the maps, is portrayed as the consequence of a global anti-Arab plot set up by European colonialism to divide the Arab world, per the report.
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Roughly 75% of Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank support the terrorist attacks, while an even higher percentage of respondents, 85.9%, reject coexistence with Israel, according to recent polling conducted by the Arab World for Research and Development.
Multiple companies, including Apple, IBM, Amazon, and others, have suspended their ad campaigns with the social media platform X, which was once called Twitter, over concerns that their ads would be displayed next to far-right messages. This comes as Musk appeared to endorse the theory that Jewish people "push hatred" against white people, which was later criticized by the White House.