Tag: Video

  • How Israel Was Created

    A 15 minute video about the history of the creation of Israel starting in the late 19th century. The video covers the First Jewish Congress and the vision of a Jewish state. It also includes the British Mandate period and the UN partition plan timeframe.

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  • The Israel-Palestine Conflict: a Brief, Simple History

    A summary of the history of Israel/Palestine starting in the late 19th century. The video covers the British Mandate period and then growing violence between Jewish militias and ultimately Israel, and the Palestinians. This includes the occupation and the resulting intifadas.

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  • A historical timeline of Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians

    This 10 minute video covers the violence against Palestinians and not the violence against Israelis and therefore would be useful to show with another video as context. Where it is especially strong is in going through the long and sustained history of violence against Palestinians that is mostly overlooked by the US media and teaching…

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  • Letting Maps Tell the Story

    This 29 minute TXCHR video starts with maps of the 13th century BCE, includes maps of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region for 400 years, then WW I maps related to negotiations between the British and Arabs. Then the video shows maps of population and land ownership through the early 1940s. Maps of partition…

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  • The Nakba

    This video explains the story of the Nakba with a testimonial. It lays out the history and facts of the last 100 years in Israel-Palestine. This is a useful video to present as an introduction for students or for educators to quickly get an understanding of the background to the current situation and to understand…

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  • Historical Israeli and Palestinian Testimonials

    Short video of ex-Israeli soldiers and Palestinian’s testimonials about the 1948 Nakba

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  • Wrestling with Zionism

    A short video by Jewish Voice for Peace explaining Zionism through testimonials.

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  • Israeli Palestinian Conflict Explained

    A quick animated introduction to Israel/Palestine conflict by Jewish Voice for Peace examining Israel-Palestine from historic, geographic, and human rights perspectives. The video looks at current issues and decidedly takes a stand for human rights while not shying away from the perceived complexities in achieving equality for all in the region. It offers an interesting…

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  • Borders and Walls

    Engage your students with a lesson that brings the complex topics of identity, division, and resilience to life. This lesson plan uses interactive activities like a gallery walk of global borders, including the US-Mexico border, thought-provoking readings on Manifest Destiny and Zionism, and real stories from Palestinian youth to draw parallels between historical and modern-day…

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