Nurit Peled-Elchanan, a senior professor of language and education at Hebrew University, and a founder of the far-left Bereaved Families for Peace, has in recent weeks caused a stir overseas with a book she has written describing how Israel's education system “educates for apartheid.” Her book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education, is being translated into English, and presents findings from what she says are “years of research” showing Israel has portrayed Arabs as second-class people. Peled-Elchanan says that she researched schoolbooks used in the Israeli school system between 1996 and 2009, and found, she said...