Teaching Palestine

Lessons, Stories, Voices

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.

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

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.

Lesson

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.”