Resources
Teaching Palestine
Lessons, Stories, Voices
Edited by Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez, and Samia Shoman
Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context […]
Teaching Palestine
An interview with Palestinian educator Ziad Abbas
Jody Sokolower
Drawing on his experience growing up in a refugee camp in the West Bank and his work with youth, Abbas explores connections that bring Palestine to life for students in the United States.
For Students to Understand Today’s Violence in Palestine-Israel, We Need to Teach About Zionism and the British Empire
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow details a new mixer lesson about the roots of Zionism in the classroom — and its relevance for today’s crisis.
The Books I Never Had as a Child
Palestinian Children’s Literature
Nadine Foty
Weaving her own experiences with reviews of Palestinian picture books, Foty shares books as resistance to the systematic exclusion of Palestine in the curriculum.
Palestine Teaching Resources
Our thoughts on essential resources for teaching about Palestine.
Boycotting Occupation: Educators and Palestine
The Editors of Rethinking Schools
“They are targeting our children. They know our children are the future of Palestine,” a mother and community activist told Rethinking Schools editor Jody Sokolower. In this Palestinian woman’s East […]
What We Learned from Our “Oakland to Gaza” K–12 Teach-In
Members of the Oakland Education Association for Palestine Group
Educators in Oakland share the dramatic story of what happened when they organized a teach-in for Palestine.
No, Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow describes a new lesson on the roots of the violence in Palestine — and argues that history shows that anti-Zionism is not automatically antisemitism.
As an Arab American Muslim Mother, Here Is the Education I Want for My Children
Nina Shoman-Dajani
A Palestinian American mother describes the alienation that she felt in school, and how she draws on her experiences to imagine the schooling she wants for her children.
Israeli Apartheid: A Simulation
Orange Bags, Green Bags, Red Bags, Blue Bags
Suzanna Kassouf
A high school teacher and co-editor of Teaching Palestine details a classroom simulation revealing some of the inequities Palestinians face throughout Israel and the Occupied Territories.