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Visualizing Palestine

Website. Provides graphic storytelling that can help students see Palestinian reality in new ways.

Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies

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Visualizing Palestine is a nonprofit “dedicated to using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change.” The graphic storytelling at Visualizing Palestine can help students “see” Palestinian reality in new ways, but also prompt students’ own imaginative visual projects to story Palestine.

For example, one January 2024 illustration depicts school buses lined up into the distance: “It would take 177 buses* to carry the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. (*72 children per bus.)” Another illustration depicts the disparity in water usage for cooking, hydration, and hygiene: Israel — 230 liters per person/per day; World Health Organization minimum per person/per day — 100 liters; Gaza, before the war per person/per day — 88; Gaza today — 3 liters per person/per day. Share these and others at the site with students and have them develop their own. [Description from Rethinking Schools.]

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Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 2024. 33 pages.
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Letters to her family from 23-year-old U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 while trying to prevent the Israeli army from destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. Followed by questions by Bill Bigelow for classroom discussion.

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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.
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