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

Read the page on purple-washing from Decolonize Palestine and pick one other type of rainbow-washing to read about. As you read, think about how Israel circulates narratives of rainbow-washing and how rainbow-washing is resisted by Palestinians producing counter or alternative narratives about the occupation in Palestine.

Decolonize Palestine (n.d.). Rainbow-washing. Retrieved from: https://decolonizepalestine.com/rainbow-washing/