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Jeremy Greenstock Accuses Tony Blair of Seeking Removal of “Palestine” from Palestinian Schoolbooks – Claims Denied
9/3/2026, 12:21:43 AM
Alleged Request to Remove “Palestine” from Palestinian Textbooks
Former British ambassador to the United Nations Jeremy Greenstock told the David Hearst Podcast that former UK prime minister Tony Blair was asked by the “Board of Peace” to travel to Ramallah and request that the Palestinian Authority delete any mention of the word “Palestine” from its school curriculum. Greenstock said the request was tied to the Board’s assessment of whether the PA could be treated as a partner capable of negotiating an end to the conflict that began on October 7.
Background: The Board of Peace and Post-October 7 Context
The “Board of Peace” is described as a body created by U.S. President Donald Trump to facilitate post-war administration in Gaza. In mid-August, Blair travelled to the Israeli-occupied territories with Jared Kushner and Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for the Board, for intensive talks with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and later with a Palestinian technocratic group in Cairo. On March 24, 2026, a protest in London featured a demonstrator wearing a Blair mask and holding signs accusing the former prime minister of “selling out to Zionism.”
Official Statements & Responses
Regarding a separate incident cited by Greenstock, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged that on April 1, 2024, seven international food-aid workers from World Central Kitchen were mistakenly killed after surveillance officials misidentified them as Hamas members. The chief military prosecutor concluded that the commanders’ decisions did not raise reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct, and the IDF decided not to open a criminal investigation.
Verbatim Quotes
- “He recently, I understand, was asked by the Board of Peace to go to Ramallah and ask to remove from the Palestinian curriculum any mention of the word Palestine if they were to be treated by the Board of Peace as capable of coming to an agreement with Israel to end the current conflict that had stemmed from October 7 onwards,” — Jeremy Greenstock, who served as Britain's ambassador to the UN from 1998 to 2003
- “But the very fact that the Board of Peace could ask for that to be done in the Palestinian educational curriculum makes me wonder what principles the Board of Peace is working on, and what understanding they have of justice, of the sense of fairness, of the history of all of this,” — Jeremy Greenstock, who served as Britain's ambassador to the UN from 1998 to 2003
Additional Claims by Greenstock
He further criticized the Board of Peace as “abstract and arbitrary,” questioning its capacity to make decisive choices about the future of the Palestinian territories.
These competing accounts illustrate a dispute between a former diplomat’s allegations and official denials from the former prime minister’s office, with no independent verification of the alleged request to alter Palestinian educational materials.
