Course Content
Welcome to “A Crash Course on Media and Palestine”
This module facilitates participants in setting learning goals and joining the ice-breaker activity.
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Histories of Palestine
This module introduces participants to histories of Palestine through the lens of media history.
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Refugees & Returning
This module introduces participants to the world's oldest and largest refugee population.
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Open Classroom with …
In this module, participants will watch a TV documentary and interview a Palestinian journalist about their media work.
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International Law & the UN
This module introduces participants to international law, UN history, and the differences between the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly.
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Open Classroom with …
In this module, participants will interview a Palestinian-Lebanese scholar about their research on the UN.
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Israeli Apartheid
This module introduces participants to the framework of Israeli apartheid and how to apply this framework in analyzing visual media.
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Open Classroom with …
In this module, participants will interview an expert on Israeli apartheid and Palestinian human rights.
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Decolonizing Palestine
This module introduces participants to the concept of rainbow-washing by Israel in the media and counter narratives that resist rainbow-washing of the occupation in Palestine.
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Anti-Palestinian Media Bias
This module introduces participants to the concept of anti-Palestinian bias and how scholars study media bias through content analysis.
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Case Study: Framing Palestinians in News
In this module, participants will use activity deliverables from the previous module to join in a research exchange with students from LAU.
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Final Module for “A Crash Course on Media and Palestine”
This final module facilitates participants in the self-assessment of their learning about media and Palestine.
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Private: A Crash Course on Media and Palestine [beta version for CIL Fellowship]
About Lesson

As you read the following, consider the following quote from Abu Sitta (2001): “The Palestinian Nakba is unsurpassed in history. For a country to be occupied by a foreign minority, emptied almost entirely of its national majority, its physical and cultural landmarks obliterated, its destruction hailed as a miraculous act of God and a victory for freedom and civilized values, all done according to a premeditated plan, meticulously executed, financially and politically supported from abroad, and still maintained today, 53 years later, with the same vigour, is no doubt unique.” (emphasis added)

As you read, think about this question: What is the role of research and eye-witness testimonies in dissecting Zionist myths around the Nakba and ongoing Nakba that impede the Right of Return?

Abu Sitta, S. (2001). From Refugees to Citizens at Home. Retrieved from: http://www.plands.org/en/books-reports/books/from-refugees-to-citizens-at-home

Al-Shaikh, Z. (1984). Sabra and Shatila 1982: Resisting the massacre. Journal of Palestine Studies. 14 (1) 57-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537057