About
About
The Nakba Education Project (NEP) offers educational resources to American Jews and a general American audience about the history of the Nakba (“Catastrophe” in Arabic) and its implications in Palestine/Israel today. The Nakba refers to the forced displacement of Palestinians that began with Israel’s establishment, and that continues to this day.
In 2008 the Israeli organization Zochrot published a study guide called How do you say Nakba in Hebrew? It’s a curriculum designed for Jewish Israelis, supporting Zochrot’s mission to increase awareness of the Nakba and its implications today. Since the study guide was published in Israel, American-Jewish communities, rabbis, and activists have been eager for English translations of Zochrot’s materials that they can use here.
In response, a small group of volunteers based in NYC has reworked the Israeli curriculum for a U.S. Jewish audience. In the past couple of years, we have run pilot versions of the series for Jewish Voice for Peace and at Columbia University in conjunction with The Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability. This website is a collection of the curriculum and resources we have developed for use in popular education, mainstream education, synagogue adult ed, and other settings. In the U.S., while most people learn about Israel as a “safe haven” for Jews, we seldom hear about the Palestinian experience of dispossession and expulsion in 1948. When American Jews do talk about Palestine, the conversation often focuses on the post-1967 occupation, without acknowledging the occupation that began with the founding of the state of Israel.
As educators and activists, we have seen how acknowledgment of the Nakba can deepen discussions of the history of Palestine, Israel, and occupation. We have seen how silence about the Nakba in American Jewish communities and institutions has enabled a massive ignoring of history and sidelining of Palestinian voices. In our conversations with other organizers and teachers, we’ve been asked again and again for resources to help address this central question, both to engage with challenges to our political activism and to deepen our analysis. With this curriculum, we hope to shift and enrich conversations in the U.S. about the history of and possibility for justice in Palestine/Israel.
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