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We share here a new lesson from Rethinking Schools on Black perspectives on Palestine-Israel during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
Rethinking Schools managing editor and lesson co-author Adam Sanchez wrote, “What I love about this lesson is it does not shy away from the complex views of civil rights leaders — it presents the Zionist views of Bayard Rustin, the NAACP, and Dr. Martin Luther King’s attempt at taking both sides, alongside Malcolm X, SNCC, and the Black Panthers’ more unabashedly pro-Palestinian viewpoints. It attempts to point out when both sides veered into Islamophobic or antisemitic rhetoric. . . .The lesson presents students with complex truths and allows them to decide what they think about it.”
Three of the authors are teachers who are currently under attack. Read Defenders of Israel Attempt to Silence Anti-Racist Educators in Philadelphia in the latest issue of the Rethinking Schools magazine.
Let us know if you use the lesson.
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