P.T.O.C.Yemen Center reveals the changes made by Houthis to the curriculum to brainwash millions of Yemeni students.

The P.T.O.C.Yemen Center for Specialized Research and Studies has released a new report titled "Hate.. Houthis' Mines for Saudi Arabia". The report, which is supported with documents, information, and investigative studies, confirms the efforts of the Iran-baked Houthis, over the past ten years to make fundamental changes in the educational curricula that were known for their moderation, turning them into campaigns for mobilization, recruitment, and glorification of fighting against neighboring countries.

The Houthi curricula are filled with hostility and revenge against Saudi Arabia, reinforcing ideological political narratives against the other with selected and distorted interpretations of religious texts. This constitutes a crime of brainwashing for children, youth, and students, creating a new generation charged with extremist tendencies and hatred, posing a threat not only to themselves, their families, and society, but also to their country, region, and the world at large. The report said.

"The Houthis, by changing the curricula, have targeted the minds of more than five million students with religious, sectarian, and doctrinal ideas in order to turn them into real time bombs in the near future, in a blatant violation of children's rights, human rights, and UNESCO standards for peace and tolerance in current education in the Middle East".

The report reveals with evidence how the Houthis root violence and nurture hatred, and inflame the sentiments of Islamic peoples with claims of protecting the holy sites, and how they present distorted information, different contexts, and fragmented historical events to brainwash the youth in the most populous provinces in Yemen, injecting young minds in primary and secondary schools with doses of violence and hatred in the national education and history courses above their intellectual capabilities.

The report pointed out the importing of Iranian terms to manipulate generations and exploit past conflicts to ensure the continuity of this group's control over power and wealth, and to destroy the national state in the Arab region in service of expansionist colonial agendas.


The Houthi curricula came in line with the negative Iranian view of the Arabs, using deceptive terms to demonize the other, excommunicate regimes, and share tools of violence with ISIS in explaining mathematical problems in the subject of mathematics.

The report P.T.O.C.Yemen Center recommends:

- Imposing strict punitive measures against any party to the conflict that engages in hate speech or incitement to violence, or justifies it within the school curriculum;

- Condemning and rejecting the poisoning school curricula by introducing terms of hatred or calls for violence and incitement to hostility, as well as condemning the involvement of students, children, and educational curricula in the midst of political conflicts and armed conflicts;

- Monitoring and analyzing hate speech in educational curricula and media, and compiling a blacklist of the most commonly used media outlets for hate speech;

- Criminalizing campaigns of religious hatred speech and justifying violence and hostility through social media platforms;

- Establishing and supporting a specialized platform, center, or unit for monitoring and analyzing hate speech, incitement to violence and hostility;

- Supporting Yemeni fact-checking platforms to enhance their performance in debunking misinformation that leads to violations of the right to a fair trial, human rights abuses, and fueling sectarianism and inciting anger;

- Supporting and encouraging the legitimate Yemeni government to develop, expand, and focus on e-learning for primary education in Houthi-controlled areas, facilitating the enrollment of Yemeni children in schools and universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and preparing in-depth research, studies, and investigative reports on changes in curricula from year to year and hate speech and violence in general;

- Conducting an in-depth study to monitor and analyze hate speech and incitement to violence in community print and broadcast media, as well as social media platforms;

- Monitoring and analyzing instances of religious and racial hatred, incitement to hostility and violence in religious discourse such as Friday Sermons, public events, and lectures;

- Supporting and sponsoring the production of reports, research, and studies debunking misleading information in curricula, cultural books, children's magazines, and disseminating them widely.