The +972 Podcast

← The +972 Podcast28 May · 44 min

How Israeli classrooms indoctrinate Jewish supremacy

How Israeli classrooms indoctrinate Jewish supremacy28 May44 min

For generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are "Arabs," “enemies,” and a "demographic threat" — or, in the words of scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan, "a problem to be solved." A professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Peled-Elhanan has spent years documenting how Israeli textbooks erase Palestinian life, mobilize Holocaust memory to produce existential fear, ...