The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies

by Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman

Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to correct the misrepresentations that infiltrate Western culture.

Genres: Education, Middle East

291 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 2011

About the author

Marcy Newman is also the editor of Jessie Redmon Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree & Selected Writings http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... and The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66...

Reviews

[Fatima Husseni]

A sad little dogmatic tome about spreading the "Palestinian narrative" at a high school level. Marcy's rejection of traditional Jewish heritage shines through in this book, which comes across less as a political statement, and more as a psychological profile of one woman's struggle to rebel against her parent's values.

[Ari Damoulakis]

Try make sure you can get the new 2024 edition if you can.
Very interesting.
I will also find and read an equivalent book for the Israeli side, yet I am really getting tired of having to walk on egg-shells to try keep friends on both sides of this conflict satisfied.
Am really just annoyed how far any of them are from solving this conflict that has basically gone on forever.
Anyway readers will definitely find this book interesting, and obviously some of my friends won’t agree with it.