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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/erasing-palestine-from-us-school-cu
 rricula-vfhl-online-film-salon/
SUMMARY:Erasing Palestine from US School Curricula (VFHL Online Film Salon)
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday September 10th\, join an online discussion\, "Erasing
  Palestine from U.S. School Curricula\," at 3:00 pm ET. Register at Tiny
 url.com/VFHL-September2023  to see two documentaries free at your conven
 ience. Watch the Trailer: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-BetweenLinesTrailer\n\nABSTRAC
 T:\nPeople who seek to maintain US support for Israel\, both within the Je
 wish community and in the larger US population\, have profoundly shaped th
 e teaching about Israel and Palestine. VFHL examines this issue through tw
 o films. Between the Lines presents interviews with students and teachers 
 at American Jewish day schools about “Israel education.” The Fight Aga
 inst Israeli Propaganda in Virginia Textbooks reveals the behind-the- scen
 es efforts of an Israeli affinity group to erase Palestine from US public 
 school teaching materials and reduce Palestinians to peasants and terroris
 ts.\n\nPANELISTS:\n\n* Ali Kriegsman is a salesperson\, publicist\, marke
 ter\, and growth strategist\, with experience scaling both bootstrapped an
 d venture-backed businesses. She is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Off
 icer of Bulletin\, a business-to-business wholesale marketplace. Ali is a 
 recipient of "Forbes 30 Under 30" and named one of Fast Company’s “Mos
 t Creative People in Business.” Her first book\, How to Build a Goddamn
  Empire\, is about her experience launching and growing Bulletin. She is t
 he co-producer and co-director of Between the Lines\, a documentary on Is
 rael education in Jewish Day Schools.\n\n* Susan Douglass is the K-14 Edu
 cation Outreach Director at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS
 ) at Georgetown University\, which holds workshops and a Summer Institute 
 for teachers. Susan authored Teaching About Religion in National and Stat
 e Social Studies Standards (2000). She closely followed the development o
 f the new history standards in Virginia in 2022-23. Included among her oth
 er publications are the second volume of the World Eras series—The Rise 
 and Spread of Islam 622-1500\, and Ramadan\, a book for young children t
 hat explains the Muslim holiday. She holds an MA in Arab Studies from Geor
 getown and a Ph.D. in world history from George Mason University.\n\n* Ezr
 a Beinart is a high school senior who attends a Jewish day school in New 
 York City. Because Jewish teenagers often hear about Palestinians but rare
 ly from them\, he launched an initiative to expose Jewish teenagers to Pal
 estinian perspectives. Featuring Zoom conversations with Rep. Rashida Tlai
 b\, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin\, the writer Yousef Munayyer and others\, the 
 initiative has attracted Jewish students from across the country\, elicite
 d interest from a range of Jewish educators\, and has been profiled in the
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency.\n\n* Faedah M. Totah (moderator) is an associ
 ate professor in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth Univ
 ersity in Richmond. She is an anthropologist with a research interest in u
 rban issues and place-making. She has worked extensively on the cultural\,
  social\, and economic impact of gentrification on the Old City of Damascu
 s\, as described in her book Preserving the Old City of Damascus (2014).
  She is currently preparing a manuscript that examines the experiences of 
 Palestinian urban refugees in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Damasc
 us. Faedah has been involved with the Virginia textbook campaign and gave 
 testimony before the Virginia Board of Education.\n\nThe September 2023 VF
 HL Online Film Salon is Co-Spons\n\nCO-SPONSORS:\nIndiana Center for Middl
 e East Peace\; Virginia Coalition for Human Rights \n\nSPREAD THE WORD!\
 n\nThe June VFHL Online Film Salon was central to articles in MONDOWEI
 SS\, and WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS. The topic of that sal
 on was the deliberate methodology undergirding Israel’s takeover of Pal
 estine\, as documented in The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for M
 ilitary Occupation by Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi.
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