How anti-bias education is weaponized to erase Palestinians

For this episode of The Left Unsaid, we sat down with Nora Lester Murad, a Jewish-American author, educator and activist who married a Palestinian Muslim and raised three daughters in the West Bank.

Nora provides a clear-eyed view of the way in which organizations like the Anti-Defamation League misrepresent themselves as anti-bias or educational resources, weaponizing claims of antisemitism to push Zionist ideology and suppress Palestinian humanity.

For 2 years, US policymakers have enabled genocidal violence in Gaza. For decades before that, they have supported occupation and apartheid in the West Bank and aggression elsewhere in the Middle East. Complicity in such slaughter is partly enabled by education that erases the humanity of Palestinians for our young people.

You can join efforts such as “Drop the ADL from Schools” campaign and #DropTheADL.

For more from Nora Lester Murad, we recommend checking out her collection of reflections on being a foreigner in Palestine, I Found Myself in Palestine, and award-winning young adult novel, Ida in the Middle. She can be found on Instagram at @nora_lester_murad or through her blog at www.NoraLesterMurad.com.

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