Week 10
(May 20)

Credit: Al Jazeera/screenshot

Video: "A Palestinian and an Israeli, Face to Face"

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0juLRi90kRg)

Guiding questions:

a)    How are these narratives compare to the standard narrative of their respective people?

b)    What stands out most to you about these messages?

c)     What surprised you, if anything?

Podcast: Unapologetic: The Third Narrative

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puUomkCjaBU

If you want to look at more videos, you can go to Spotify from a desktop: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CT8QicPO31pe7AX0jA4Wp or you can search on Apple podcasts)

Guiding questions:

a)    What is different about Ibrahim and Amira's approach

b)    What gives you hope?

c)     What makes you skeptical?

OPTIONAL Reading: "The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel", New York Times, May 16, 2024

Note: The online version has an audio option, which is an hour and a half: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html

Guiding questions:

a)    What narratives have driven the settler movement?

b)    If they represented the fringe, why did government officials and authorities tolerate them and treat them different from radical Palestinians?

c)     What is their relationship with the State of Israel?