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Summer Workshops 2026 Daily Resources
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
Workshop #2: Strategies for Change in Your School
With Special Guests:
Merrie Nijimy, Lebanese American, former President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and co-founder of MTA Rank and File for Palestine.
Colette Cavanagh, education director for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Laura Pinho, high school dance teacher and supervisor of an SJP club in Los Angeles.
Strategies for Change in Your School will look at how to establish Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) clubs and incorporate Palestinian culture--poetry, art, music, dance--into curriculum.
Homework: Grab our Workshhop #2 Study Prompts!
And more resources:
- Dabkeh, Traditional Dance in Palestine - UNESCO
- History, Types, Technique, Costumes & More
- Young Palestinians Speak Living Under Occupation By Anthony Robinson & Annemarie Young
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History By Nur Masalha
- Teaching Palestine Lessons, Stories, Voices Edited by Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez, and Samia Shoman
- Understanding Palestine & Israel by Phyllis Bennis
- Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation By Sim Kern
- Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba Edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro
- Palestine Mapped From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought By Thomas Suárez
Workshop #3: Literature and Art as Tools for Resistance
With Special Guests:
Lupe Carrasco Cardona, chair, Association of Raza Educators
Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK's Drop the ADL campaign and chair, CTA Jewish & Allied Educators 4 Palestine.
Literature and Art as Tools for Resistance presents an Ethnic Studies lesson, "Edward Said, Orientalism and Othering," and a media literacy lesson examining art themes on the Apartheid Wall.
📝 Homework! 📝
Grab our Workshop #3 Study Prompts!
And more resources:
Workshop #4: Exploring the Meaning of the Slogan, From the River to the Sea:
With Special Guest:
Dr. Maha Nassar, Associate Professor, author, "Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World." She will guide participants through her lesson published in "Rethinking Schools."
In the final workshop of Challenging Zionism in Schools, CODEPINK explores the meaning of the slogan, From the River to the Sea.
📝 Homework! 📝
Grab our Workshop #4 Study Prompts!
And more resources:
- South Africa vs. Israel Genocide Case at the International Court of Justice - Marcy Winograd Lesson Plan
- School Board & Students Debate the IHRA Definition-Does it conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism? - Marcy Winograd Lesson Plan