Palestine in Israeli School Books

Name: Palestine in Israeli School Books
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781780765051
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Ideology and Propaganda in Education

By Nurit Peled-Elhanan

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Nurit Peled-Elhanan explores how Israeli school textbooks portray Palestine and Palestinians, revealing a pro-Israel ideology embedded within History, Geography, and Civic Studies materials. The book examines imagery, language, and maps used in education to show how these textbooks may marginalise Palestinians, legitimise Israeli military actions, and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity. This critical analysis highlights the role of education in preparing Israeli youth for compulsory military service amid the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Recommended for readers interested in Middle East studies, education, politics, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its representation in educational systems.

How is Palestine, and the Palestinians against whom these young Israelis will potentially be required to use force, portrayed in the school system? This book provides a fresh scholarly contribution to the Israeli-Palestinian debate, and can be relevant to the fields of Middle East Studies and Politics widely.

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Each year, Israel's young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is by its nature intensely complex and is played out under the full glare of international security. So, how does Israel's education system prepare its young people for this? How is Palestine, and the Palestinians against whom these young Israelis will potentially be required to use force, portrayed in the school system?

Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service. She analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books might be seen to marginalize Palestinians, legitimize Israeli military action and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity.

Palestine in Israeli School Books provides a fresh scholarly contribution to the Israeli-Palestinian debate, and will be relevant to the fields of Middle East Studies and Politics more widely.

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Ben White praises the book for its thorough and accessible study of propaganda in Israeli textbooks, providing a new perspective on accusations of 'teaching children to hate' in the Middle East.

Charles Glass considers it a pioneering and essential scholarly work that counters narratives blaming Palestinian textbooks and serves as a key resource for understanding the Middle East conflict.

The book offers a rigorous methodology to reveal ideological biases in educational texts, with implications applicable beyond this case.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780765051

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 August 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: I.B. Tauris

Illustration: 19 bw integrated

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 351g

Pages: 280

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Nurit Peled-Elhanan Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Nurit Peled-Elhanan is Lecturer in Language Education in the Faculty of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A co-recipient of the 2001 Sakharov Prize for Human Rights and the Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament, she has written extensively on Israeli education, and is a regular speaker and writer both in Europe and in the USA on matters concerning the Israeli occupation and its effects on both Israelis and Palestinians. She is a member of the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Parents for Peace, and one of the founders of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine 2009.