A high-stakes controversy has erupted over allegations tied to the Trump administration’s newly formed Gaza-focused Board of Peace, after a former senior British diplomat accused former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair of carrying an extraordinary demand to the Palestinian Authority: scrub all references to “Palestine” from official school curricula and replace the term with the Jewish historical name “Samaria”. The claim, first published as an exclusive report by independent outlet Middle East Eye, has been forcefully and repeatedly denied by Blair’s Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which calls the allegation a baseless fabrication.
Blair Institute denies former UK PM asked PA to remove ‘Palestine’ from school textbooks
