Sunday, September 10, 3:00 PM EDT
What are the occupied Palestinian territories? Where is Palestine? What is the Palestinian-Israeli struggle about? Do teaching materials in U.S. public schools and Jewish private schools provide accurate answers to these questions?
Probably not.
People who seek to maintain US support for Israel, both within the Jewish community and in the larger US population, have profoundly shaped the teaching of Israeli and Palestine. VFHL examines this issue through two films. "Between the Lines" presents interviews with students and teachers at American Jewish Day Schools about "Israel education." "The Fight Against Israeli Propaganda in Virginia Textbooks" reveals the behind-the-scenes efforts of an Israeli affinity group to erase Palestine from U.S. public school teaching materials and reduce Palestinians to peasants and terrorists.
Panelists are: Ali Kriegsman: filmmaker, author, entrepreneur, and small business leader / Ezra Beinart: Jewish day school senior; facilitator of on-line discussions between US Jewish teens & Palestinians / Susan Dauglass: educator, author, outreach director for the CCAS at Georgetown University
Our moderator will be Faedah Totah, associate professor at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Trailer: Between-the-Lines -Trailer (vimeo.com)
To register (will be sent a link to the full film after registration): Meeting Registration - Zoom
Co-Sponsors: VCHR - About Us / Indiana Center for Middle East Peace | A voice of conscience for peace, justice, human rights, and intercultural encounter (indianacmep.org)
SUPPORTER Organizations: Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ♦ Episcopal Peace Fellowship-Palestine Israel Network ♦ Churches for Middle East Peace ♦ Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace ♦ Quaker Palestine Israel Network ♦ Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East ♦ Indiana Center for Middle East Peace ♦ Disciples Palestine-Israel Network ♦ Virginia Coalition for Human Rights ♦ Mennonite Palestine Israel Network ♦ Friends of Sabeel North America ♦ Center for Jewish Nonviolence ♦ United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network ♦ Northern New Jersey Jewish Voice for Peace ♦ Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service ♦ Kairos Puget Sound Coalition ♦ Pax Christi USA ♦