Workshop #1: Decoding the Narrative
With Special Guests:
Emmaia Gelman, author, "The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State."
Adam Sanchez, editor, "Rethinking Schools."
Rick Chertoff, writer, LA Progressive.
In the introductory session of Challenging Zionism in Schools, guests deconstructed the ADL curriculum to understand how historical trauma can be exploited to justify present-day oppression and genocide.
Homework: Grab our Workshop #1 Study Prompts!
And more resources:
- The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State by Emmaia Gelman (UC Press)
- CODEPINK Drop the ADL Action Guide
- Drop the ADL from Schools
- Rethinking Schools
- What's Missing in Holocaust Education (Marcy Winograd & Rick Chertoff. Rethinking Schools)
- School Board and Students Debate the IHRA Definition (lesson by Marcy Winograd posted to the AFT's lesson website)
- South Africa vs. Israel Genocide Case at the International Court of Justice