The right to tell the truth about Israel’s crimes committed against the Palestinians is under threat. When it comes to teaching Israel-Palestine, educators must be peacemakers and truthtellers.
The ability to provide an open account of Israel’s atrocities against the Arab people has been threatened. When it comes to teaching about Israel and Palestine, educators must be mediators and truth-tellers. The ability to honestly account for Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians is in jeopardy. When it comes to teaching about Israel and Palestine, educators must be mediators and truth-tellers.
The right to tell the truth about Israel’s crimes committed against the Palestinians is under threat. When it comes to teaching Israel-Palestine, educators must be peacemakers and truthtellers.
An effort is being made to combat the erasure of Black history. Teachers did not sign up for this conflict, yet their school rooms are now serving as fields of battle. An attempt by conservatives to stifle Black history is an effort to hide the realities of white supremacy, racial capitalism, and systemic racism, being that those issues explain many of the troubles our country is dealing with. Therefore, educators must teach these concepts and promote the necessity and responsibility to teach them. Educators must teach and safeguard the fact that the Israeli government and people have been inhabiting Palestine for the past seventy-five years. Despite how uncomfortable this may be, it is necessary to address and protect. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed that he felt more and more pressured to recognize the war as a danger to poor people and to confront it as such. King remarked that those who produce weapons and green light their deployment become wealthy, while the victims of such weapons are detrimentally afflicted and tend to become increasingly impoverished. The world is currently seeing a barrage of attacks against people who are living under occupation, as well as poverty and apartheid.
