Czech MPs have criticised Czech public TV for reporting that the US has curtailed financial help for schools in Gaza
The Education Committee of the Czech Parliament has adopted a censuring motion proposed by its Chairperson, the extreme right wing politician Václav Klaus Junior from the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). The motion strongly criticises public service Czech Television for broadcasting, in its news programme for children, a news item informing the young viewers that the United States have cut its payments for the Palestinians - thus there are now no funds to pay teachers and to purchase textbooks for Palestinian schools. "This news item was fully in conflict with the Czech foreign policy [which is strongly pro-American and pro-Israeli], complained Václav Klaus Junior. This is a second time recently when the public service media in the Czech Republic has been officially criticised.