{
  "id": 5395630,
  "title": "Tony Blair denies reports he asked to swap 'Palestine' to 'Samaria' in Palestinian schoolbooks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/tony-blair-denies-reports-he-asked-to-swap-palestine-to-samaria-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-03T19:24:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Haaretz",
    "slug": "haaretz",
    "url": "https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-09-03/ty-article/.premium/tony-blair-denies-reports-he-asked-to-remove-palestine-from-pa-schoolbooks/000001a0-67f9-d60b-a1f2-efff1f9c0000"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has denied a report that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair asked the Palestinian Authority to remove mentions of \"Palestine\" from school textbooks. According to Middle East Eye, the report claimed that the US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace had sent Blair to make the request, which was to replace \"Palestine\" with the Jewish designation of \"Samaria\".\n\nThe Institute called the report \"a complete fabrication\" and the Board of Peace described it as \"entirely fabricated\" with \"not a shred of evidence\" to support it, as reported by Haaretz.\n\nThe reports emerge as Israel expands its curriculum in East Jerusalem schools.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Middle East Eye",
        "title": "Blair Institute denies former UK PM asked PA to remove 'Palestine' from school textbooks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/blair-institute-denies-former-uk-pm-asked-pa-to-remove-palestine-from",
        "published": "2026-09-03T11:37:57.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}