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Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) Paperback – August 7, 2012

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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. This book 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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August 7, 2012
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'Nurit Peled-Elhanan's study of propaganda in Israeli school books is thorough and accessible. With academic analysis supported by examples and illustrations, this book gives a whole new meaning to complaints about 'teaching children to hate' in the Middle East.' – Ben White, journalist and author of Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide'Nurit Peled-Elhanan's pioneering work on the way Israeli school books teach students about Palestinians should stand with Frances Fitzgerald's America ReviSited as the standard reference on the mis-teaching of history and geography. This scholarly work is a riposte to those who complain that the school books of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation poisons Palestinians against Israelis. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the Middle East conflict today.' – Charles Glass, broadcaster, journalist and writer specialising in the Middle East'This book presents a means, a methodology, which reveals clearly and in a rigorous way the ideological bases underlying forms of texts - in this case school books. It is one which has wide applicability and therefore wide appeal, in any situation where school books are studied, but even well beyond that. This book is academically well grounded, sound, with real application, politically highly significant and with a wide potential readership in the areas of Sociology, Education and studies of language.' – Gunther Kress, Professor in the Centre for Multimodal Research, Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy, the Institute of Education, University of London

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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ I.B. Tauris; Illustrated edition (August 7, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780765053
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780765051
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.59 x 8.5 inches

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bassammaelborno

The Legacy of Indoctrination

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2013

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Doris Lessing who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 offered these words of wisdom;

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this....

'You are in the process of being indoctrinated.

We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.

What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture.

The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be.

You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors.

It is a self-perpetuating system.

Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself -- educating your own judgments.

Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being molded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society'.

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Spencer42

Sad!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2016

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The information is very important and well researched but the writing is too academic so it's a little hard to read. Reading it all made me realize why Israelis have such a low opinion of Palestinians and are so convinced that land lived on by Palestinians for centuries actually belongs to Jews. The indoctrination starts with their schools. Sad!

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Syndee Werner

Very Insightful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2016

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As an American who grew up in the public school system, I can tell you because I remember...there are many histories manipulated in our school books that were, and suppose still are, obviously rewritten, flat out lies, exaggerated on to instill fear and hyper-sympathy or left out entire people. Thank you for this parallel....it helps connect the dots, for me anyway.

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Vladek

Truth Versus Propaganda

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2013

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For years Israel has claimed that Palestinians teach demonization of Jews in their schools. That allegation has not been proven. This book, by a noted Israeli Jewish scholar, provides evidence that Israeli textbooks advance the Israeli propaganda story rather than a truthful accounting of history. The protrayal of Palestinians in Israeli history textbooks creates a culture of distrust and dislike of Palestinians.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2016

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An eye opener on how incitement is brought into the Israeli classrooms

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Anne Burns

A revealing and important look at Israeli textbooks

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2013

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An important book about the racism and discrimination in Israeli school texts by an Israeli expert on education and discourse analysis. The author is a member of a distinguished Israeli family, which has produced other outspoken champions of justice.

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Alexander

good, honest writing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2015

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good, honest writing. hard to find truth like this in the Us-Israel relationship. a must-read for those who are interested in making a change for peace and justice

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Addison Bross

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2015

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A valuable account of one method by which the Palestinian people are controlled by a ruthless dictatorship.

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Geordie1

A shocking but essential read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 22, 2020

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I was shocked to learn what goes on in this day & age: The prejudice & racism shown towards the Palestinians (evidenced by a Jewish professor in this book) reminds me of how Germans portrayed the Jews in cartoons, books & newspapers pre-World War Two :(

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MNZ

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 11, 2018

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Truth must be told.

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Richard Morris

Exposes Israeli Lies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 15, 2012

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A serious academic studyy of the iniquities of Israeli education policies. The author's daughter was murdered by a suicide bomber so it is admirable and brave of her to expose Israel and to discuss the horrors they continue to perpetrate on the Palestinians and the the use of education as propaganda

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André Gargoura

Devastating study of israeli propaganda !!!

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on May 22, 2021

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Seriously-documented attack on the israeli's manipulation of historical, geographical, sociological truths and of ethics, in order to replace facts by zionist ideology, basically in education -- reduced to teaching children to hate -- but actually extended to the world at large where the same pseudo-arguments are being used...

On the wrong track of trying to justify an ethnocratic regime while refusing to even consider the only democratic two-state solution, Israel's political authorities -- with eye's wide shut as the last step of the grand plan is taking place, i.e. the annexation of zone C -- don't see that they are heading directly from an apartheid de facto towards an apartheid de jure !!!

And that's the most dramatic outcome that Nurit Peled-Elhanan shows us...

Inger

Unbelievable propaganda in Israeli schoolbooks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 28, 2013

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To read this very wellwritten book - remembering that Israel calls itself a democratic state - is odd. Mrs Peled-Elhanan - an Israeli - having lost her own daughter - deserves deeply respect to have investigated this theme and because of her peacework in the israelian and palestinian conflict.

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