Teaching While Muslim and the Palestinian American Community Center Laud Lessons Learnt from 1st Intifada

On December 15th, PACC hosts TeachingWhileMuslim, EducatorsforPalestinianLiberation and DecolonizetheClassroom for Palestine "teach-in". "EPL" and "Decolonize" support saying "yes to armed resistance"

This last image really does a lot to demonstrate what a feminist movement the first Intifada was!

Not included in the lessons from the First Intifada:

Stabbing innocent civilians to death, and attacks with axes, guns (over 600 such attacks), stones, hand grenades ( over 100), and Molotov Cocktails (over 3000).

All orchestrated by the PLO (apparently also not included in the lessons to be learned in favor of emphasizing the “community-led” nature of the Intifada) which gave orders on which days should see escalation and who the targets were to be.

From the Jewish Virtual Library:

Jews were not the only victims of the violence. In fact, as the intifada waned around the time of the Gulf War in 1991, the number of Arabs killed for political and other reasons by Palestinian death squads in what amount to an “intrafada” exceeded the number killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat defended the killing of Arabs deemed to be “collaborating with Israel.” He delegated the authority to carry out executions to the intifada leadership. After the murders, the local PLO death squad sent the file on the case to the PLO. “We have studied the files of those who were executed, and found that only two of the 118 who were executed were innocent,” Arafat said. The innocent victims were declared “martyrs of the Palestinian revolution” by the PLO (Al-Mussawar, January 19, 1990).

Palestinians were stabbed, hacked with axes, shot, clubbed and burned with acid. The justifications offered for the killings varied. In some instances, being employed by Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank and Gaza was reason enough; in others, contact with Jews warranted a death sentence. Accusations of “collaboration” with Israel were sometimes used as a pretext for acts of personal vengeance. Women deemed to have behaved “immorally” were also among the victims.

Eventually, the reign of terror became so serious that some Palestinians expressed public concern about the disorder. The PLO began to call for an end to the violence, but murders by its members and rivals continued. From 1989-1992, this intrafada claimed the lives of nearly 1,000 Palestinians.

A reminder that this group will be holding a "Palestine” Teach-in on Sunday 15th December. Teachingwhilemuslim has previously mourned the death of terrorist Yahya Sinwar, and Thuraya Zeidan of Decolonize the Classroom and the Educators for Palestinian Liberation have advocated for “al-thawabet” which says “yes to armed resistance.”