New Resources

New Resources

As teachers and students settle into the spring semester, we hope that 2021 will bring more health, more justice, and more peace. This has been a difficult time to be an educator, and many of us are feeling the impact of so many months of trying to support our...
Children’s Books About Palestine

Children’s Books About Palestine

By Katharine Davies Samway This article appeared originally in Rethinking Schools, vol. 27, no. 2, winter 2012–13.   It was a beautiful fall day for the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival and I was volunteering at a booth devoted to Palestine and the...

Independence or Catastrophe?

Teaching Palestine through multiple narratives By Samia Shoman This article first appeared in Rethinking Schools magazine, summer 2014. Introduction Long before I was born in 1975, the course of my life had been drastically altered by history. When David Ben-Gurion...