Understanding Palestine & Israel
Book — Non-fiction. By Phyllis Bennis. 2025. 240 pages.
Answers to commonly asked questions about Palestine and Israel, written in popularly accessible language.
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Answers to commonly asked questions about Palestine and Israel, written in popularly accessible language.
Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza
At Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change we are outraged by the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, and the rising death toll in the West Bank.
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Teaching Palestine-Israel from the Perspective of Civil Rights and Black Power Activists
Teaching Activity. By Hannah Gann, Nick Palazzolo, Keziah Ridgeway, and Adam Sanchez. Rethinking Schools. 2024. 23 pages.
This lesson highlights the complexity and diversity of thought as Civil Rights and Black Power leaders and organizations developed their views on Palestine-Israel.
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This lesson highlights the complexity and diversity of thought as Civil Rights and Black Power leaders and organizations developed their views on Palestine-Israel.
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer
Excerpt from Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer by Phyllis Bennis.
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Israelism
Film. Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen. Tikkun Olam Productions. 2023. 84 minutes.
Examines young Jews who are fundamentally changing not just their attitudes about Israel, Palestine, and Palestinians, but about their own role in the world, and coming to see themselves as solidarity activists.
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Examines young Jews who are fundamentally changing not just their attitudes about Israel, Palestine, and Palestinians, but about their own role in the world, and coming to see themselves as solidarity activists.
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States
Film. Directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp. Media Education Foundation. 2016. Three versions: 21 min./45 min./84 min.
This film helps students recognize how the media and politicians consistently frame “Palestinian resistance as terrorism and Israeli aggression as self-defense.”
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This film helps students recognize how the media and politicians consistently frame “Palestinian resistance as terrorism and Israeli aggression as self-defense.”
Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel — A New Lesson
We owe it to our students — and to the people of Gaza — to explore in our classrooms the history of violence that continues in Palestine-Israel. Check out the new mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and find more teaching resources on Palestine-Israel.
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Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 2024. 33 pages.
A mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and more.
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A mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and more.
Ten Myths About Israel
Book. By Ilan Pappe.
An Israeli historian examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
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Teaching Media Literacy on Palestine-Israel
Journalist and author Norman Solomon joined Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian to discuss how Solomon’s book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, relates to coverage of current events in Palestine-Israel, and strategies for teaching media literacy.
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