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Teaching Palestine

Lessons, Stories, Voices

New Book from Rethinking Schools

Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices from Rethinking Schools provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context of Palestine-Israel in the classroom — poetry, personal narratives, interviews, role plays, critical reading and writing activities, and more.

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This book is a brilliant and much-needed antidote to the biased, distorted, and harmful narratives in schools and mainstream media that dehumanize Palestinians and justify their death and dispossession.


Teaching Palestine is a generous offer for all of us fighting for that world where Palestinians, and all people, live with justice, dignity, and freedom.

— Stefanie Fox, executive director, Jewish Voice for Peace

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Palestine and Black Power

Lesson from Rethinking Schools

One of the lessons in Teaching Palestine is Teaching Palestine-Israel from the Perspective of Civil Rights and Black Power Activists by Hannah Gann, Nick Palazzolo, Keziah Ridgeway, and Adam Sanchez.


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 pro-Palestinian viewpoints. It points 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.”

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Black Panther Party artist Emory Douglas was one of 12 people who contributed to the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural – If the Tree Knew. Source: Mondoweiss/Henry Norr

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More Key Titles on Palestine

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In straightforward language for high school students and adults, Phyllis Bennis provides answers in Understanding Palestine and Israel to questions about the ongoing crisis. When did it begin? What is the Balfour Declaration? What are the Occupied Territories? What is Zionism — and do all Jews support it? Does Israel have the right of self-defense? What were conditions like in Gaza before October 7?

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Not only do the illustrations in Visualizing Palestine teach students about the unequal and deadly relationship between Israel and Palestine, teachers can also use the graphics as prompts for students to create their own data-informed posters — about other countries or other eras.


It is hard to overemphasize what a useful resource this book is.

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Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a collection of recommended titles for pre-K12 and adults on Palestine.

Booklist

New Administration to Teachers:

Sanitize U.S. History or Leave the Field

In Truthout, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian writes,


At stake is not merely the lens through which we view our past, but the moral and intellectual foundation of the society we aspire to create.

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Hagopian describes how teachers are defending the freedom to learn and invites readers to join the Zinn Education Projects fifth annual Teach Truth Day of Action

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Birthright Citizenship

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This is a good time to revisit our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class with Dr. Martha Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.


Jones described how even before the Reconstruction amendment that guaranteed birthright citizenship, African Americans “take the law into their own hands and craft citizenship, even when so many other people would deny them those sorts of rights.”

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You know what we face: Teachers are under attack for teaching truthfully about U.S. history. Please donate so that we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources, and defend teachers’ right to use them.

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