Worth watching the whole thing but here are some key quotes from the “education” breakout room:
Thea Abu El-Haj, professor of education at Barnard College, Columbia:
“Education is a site of resistance”
Regarding the response to campus protests: “A brilliant colonial strategy to get us talking about what is happening on our campuses and not Gaza”
“Extreme violence against peaceful student protests”
Reem Abuelhaj, elementary school teacher and director of education at freedom side school in Philadelphia - talking about how to approach Gaza/Anti-Palestinian Racism with Kindergarten and elementary school children:
“The classroom is a place where young people either learn to not feel what it means when Palestinians are experiencing genocide in Gaza and remain complicit or feel what it means…”
Reem talks about “offering young students tools for resistance…talk about tactics and escalation”
Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, moderator of the breakout room and lecturer in education at the University of Pennsylvania:
“How does anti-Palestinian racism get brought into these narratives of terrorism when it’s really resistance?”
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