Palestine Think Tank

Palestinian students are inculcated with the idea that Jews are the original and oldest inhabitants of the land and the most attached to it. Raising Arab-Palestinian students on this idea, while not providing adequate cultural and historical knowledge to challenge it, encourages alienation from their homeland.

Feelings of alienation will later on undermine the capacity of students to tackle oppressive policies, especially in matters of land and social culture, and transform them into easy prey for the dominant Israeli political discourse which can be summarized as follows: this is the land of the Jewish people. We returned to our rightful historic homeland and built it up. You Arab-Palestinians are just passers-by, strangers to this land, and a source of annoyance to our presence. This is the discourse underlying Israeli political demands for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.

WRITTEN BY Ramzy Baroud 
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لا أشك لحظة واحدة أن النظام القضائي الفلسطيني (إذا سمح له) سيعيد كافة أوغالبية المعلمين الذين فصلوا من وظائفهم بصورة أقل ما يقال فيها أنها اعتباطية وغير موضوعية.
كما لا أشك أيضا ان الإتحاد العام للمعلمين الفلسطينيين (إذا سمح له) سوف يقف إلى جانب هؤلاء المعلمين المظلومين الذين استمروا على رأس أعمالهم منذ تعيينهم [...]

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