Pro-Palestinian activists complained and made representations to the Scottish government that there should be an “impartial” teaching resource on Israel and Palestine.
But Stanley Grossman of Scottish Friends of Israel said the material they submitted was “very divisive and potentially harmful”.
Micheline Brannan, chair of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, said that the new move by the SFP was an attempt to “introduce a pro-Palestinian narrative into Scottish schools”.
Mr Grossman warned that with so many new members of the Scottish Parliament who are unfamiliar with the issues at stake, it was likely that the whole process — and attendant arguments — would begin again. “We have to take this seriously,” he said.
In 2017 the then Scottish Education Secretary, John Swinney, acknowledged that there was no possibility that both sides would reach agreement on the topic and it was dropped.
Mr Swinney’s successor, Shirley-Anne Somerville, will now decide whether to take the matter further.
