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This lesson plan aims to equip students with the tools to critically assess media sources, recognise bias, and understand the profound impact of media narratives on public perception and policy.

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Media Bias and the coverage of Palestinian genocide

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This lesson plan aims to equip students with the tools to critically assess media sources, recognise bias, and understand the profound impact of media narratives on public perception and policy.

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Media Bias and the coverage of Palestinian genocide

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Edward Said: perception of Arabs in the western world. Lesson plan and worksheets

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Edward Said: perception of Arabs in the western world. Lesson plan and worksheets

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Lesson Plan Understanding Edward Said and Orientalism

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Lesson Plan and Activities: Groundwater Management and Conflict in Palestine 

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Lesson Plan and Activities: Groundwater Management and Conflict in Palestine 

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Palestine-water_ Conflict over underground water

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Eavan Boland’s poem Child of Our Time is a fantastic exploration of the effects of violence on children, and how society has failed them.

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The conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, between Catholics and Protestants began in 1968. Violence escalated during the 1970s and last until the 1990s.

On the 17th May, 1974 four co-ordinated car bombings took place in Dublin and Monaghan. Thirty-four civilians were killed, including two infants and a full term unborn child and its mother. Eaven Boland wrote this poem in 1975, and published it in the War Horse collection. This poem is an elegy or lament for these children.

Eaven Boland wrote

I wrote it inspired - and I use the words with care - by a photograph I saw two days later on the front of a national newspaper whose most arresting feature was the expression on the face of the fireman who lifted that child, an expression of tenderness as if he were lifting his own child from its cradle to its mother's breast.

The two baby sisters were Jacqueline and Anne Marie O'Brien, and the unborn full-term baby known Baby Doherty were among those killed.

Structure
The poem comprises three six-lined stanzas. There is no regular, formal meter and lines are of uneven length, but the effect is rhythmic, reminiscent of a lullaby.

There is a progression through the poem, that these deaths are tragic and pointless; that all humanity is responsible and that lessons must be learned.

There are subtle irregular rhymes throughout. In stanza one lines one and three are perfect rhymes and lines four and six consonantly rhymed. In stanza two lines one and four are consonant and lines three and six perfect rhymes. In stanza three lines one and four are consonant and lines two and six perfect rhymes.

Language and Imagery
The voice is that of a first person narrator, we can assume the poet, using the pronoun "I". The tone is gentle, mimicking a lullaby.

The first stanza focuses on the language of music; "lullaby", "song" and "rhythm". The second stanza includes a lexical field of childhood stories; "animals", "tales", "legends". The last stanza speaks of the need to "rebuild"; "images" have been "broken" and it is time to find a "new language".

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Yesterday I knew no lullaby / But you have taught me overnight to order / This song, which takes from your final cry / Its tune, from your unreasoned end its reason; / Its rhythm

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UN report on the socioeconomic effects of the bombardment of Gaza. 

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UN report on the socioeconomic effects of the bombardment of Gaza. 

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The war in Gaza continues unabated well past its first month, leaving behind massive losses of life and infrastructure damage and forcing displacements of unprecedented scale. The unfolding humanitarian emergency is also a development crisis. The continuation of the war comes with huge and compounding costs to all Palestinians, not only Gazans, now and in the near and medium-term future.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) are a releasing on 9 November 2023, a joint rapid assessment entitled 'The Gaza War: Expected Socio-Economic Impacts on the State of Palestine.'

UNDP and ESCWA have specific mandates by the United Nations to work to improve the economic and social conditions of the Palestinian people, and to substantively report on those conditions, respectively.

The assessment compiles data and employs various analytical tools, including rapid satellite damage appraisals, night-time light satellite imagery and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) economic modelling, to simulate the impacts of the war in Gaza on the entire occupied Palestinian territory at the one-month mark and for two-month and three-month scenarios - it examines:

1) impact on lives;

2) buildings and infrastructure damages;

3) health status;

4) poverty and food insecurity;

5) impacts on jobs and businesses; and

6) macro-economic performance.

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programme of assistance to the palestinian people

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Gaza War: Expected Socio-Economic Impacts on the State of Palestine

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The war in Gaza continues unabated well past its first month, leaving behind massive losses of life and infrastructure damage and forcing displacements of unprecedented scale. The unfolding humanitarian emergency is also a development crisis. The continuation of the war comes with huge and compounding costs to all Palestinians, not only Gazans, now and in the near and medium-term future.

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Examine the topic of ethical economics and boycotts

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Examine the topic of ethical economics and boycotts

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The economic boycott of Israel aims to put pressure on Israel to comply with international law and to persuade private companies to end their participation in Israel's crimes.

The Israeli economy is especially dependent on international trade and investment, making it especially susceptible to international economic boycotts. Many international companies such as G4S and HP profit from helping Israel to maintain its system of apartheid and settler colonialism. Campaigns against and divestment from international companies increases the pressure on them to end their complicity with Israel's oppression of Palestinians.

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The BDS movement is building an economic boycott of Israel and developing effective campaigns against companies that participate in Israel's oppression of Palestinians. International companies aid and abet Israel's violations of international law, including by operating in illegal Israeli settlements and acting as contractors for the Israeli military and government.

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Poems of the brilliant Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul. You can follow Marwan on social media. You will find all his links on the first page  above.

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Irish Sport For Palestine issue open letter calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza | Hotpress

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Should politics and sport mix - Class discussion /debate.

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Over 200 members of the Irish sporting community have signed the letter, including James McLean, Keith Earls and Joe Brolly.

Irish Sport For Palestine have issued an open letter calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

The statement, signed by over 200 members of the Irish sporting community, has called on athletic organisations in Ireland to call for an international investigation into "Israel's violation of the Olympic charter".

The letter also letter also advocates for sports clubs, spaces, fan groups and communities to sign up and become "Apartheid Free Zones" and boycott Israeli products.

Irish Sport for Palestine have also called for members of the sporting community to attend the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign march in Dublin this Saturday, January 13.

"Selfishly, I toured apartheid South Africa with both the Lions and Ireland in the 1980s, and I have had to live with it ever since," said , former Ireland and Lions rugby international John Robbie, one of the letter's signatories.

"As such I am proud to add my name to this important project. A just settlement will free Israel from the stigma of the present, just as the new South Africa, for all its faults, has freed white South Africans."

cool to see Kevin Moran put his name to the Irish Sport for Palestine petition pic.twitter.com/VYOMVvQmtO

- branno (@kevinbrannigans) January 10, 2024

Amongst those singing the letter are a long list of notable Irish sporting names, such as All-Ireland winner Joe Brolly, former rugby internationals Keith Earls, John E Murphy and Jerry Flannery, former Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr and former internationals Kevin Moran and James McClean,boxer Tyrone McKenna and former Olympian David Gillick.
Read Irish Sport For Palestine's open letter in full below:
" We have come together as members of the Irish sporting community to show our solidarity with the Palestinian people and to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
For over three months, we have watched in horror as over 22,330 Palestinians, more than 9,000 of them children, have been murdered, and countless thousands more catastrophically injured, while 90% of the population in Gaza have been forcibly displaced. We ask: How many athletes, sports people, trainers, and those children aspiring to be, have been murdered or displaced by the horrific Israeli violence? For decades, Israel has Israel continues to target Palestinian athletes, especially footballers, many of them children and youths, and has destroyed sporting facilities in Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli occupation forces last month turned Gaza's Yarmouk Stadium into a detention centre, where Palestinian men, youths and children have been held without charge, terrorised, and abused. The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) has called on the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), international and continental confederations and all relevant bodies "to take urgent measures to end the gross violations of the Israeli occupation against the Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza, and to subject it to legal accountability." The PFA has appealed for an international investigation into the treatment of Palestinian athletes and sports facilities amidst reports of Israeli forces violating the Olympic charter by targeting sports clubs. What is happening in Gaza is genocide. A system of Apartheid - a crime against humanity - is being imposed on Palestinians. Despite criticism by the UN, respected international organisations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, International Rescue Committee and Medecins Sans Frontieres, and many more, Israel has made clear its intention to continue to violate international law. We encourage all sports people across the island to join our call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, for the illegal siege to be lifted, for humanitarian aid to be delivered, and for no further forced displacement of Palestinians. We advocate for sports clubs, spaces, fan groups and communities to sign up to become We call on Sport Ireland, the Olympic Federation of Ireland, and all relevant sporting bodies to call for an international investigation into Israel's violation of the Olympic charter and impose sanctions. We call on the Irish government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill, and the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill. We urge them to support the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court into the situation in Palestine and submit a case of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza to the International Court of Justice, as South Africa has just done. After 75 years of racist oppression, Palestinians deserve freedom, justice, and equality. This is a crucial moment for humanity. The time to act is now. We must stand together, and we must not fail." Apartheid Free Zones and boycott Israeli products. targeted Palestinian sports people, preventing them from travelling to competitions, shooting and maiming them, killing them, and destroying their facilities.

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Over 200 members of the Irish sporting community have signed the letter, including James McLean, Keith Earls and Joe Brolly.

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Documentary on One - the Irish rugby squad who crossed the line

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Compare the boycott of South African Rugby to the decisions faced by athletes today.

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In May 1981 the Irish rugby team were forced to sneak out of the country, but within a few months they were national heroes. Crossing the Line is the story of Ireland's tour of South Africa at the height of apartheid that split the team and split the nation. Below, programme maker David Coughlan writes for Culture about this week's Documentary on One production - listen to Crossing The Line above, and download it here.
Hugo MacNeill compares it to Saipan, but in reality it was much bigger.

In January, 1981 the IRFU accepted an invitation for a tour to apartheid South Africa and started one of the biggest sagas in Irish sport.

Players lost their jobs, Irish athletes were boycotted in other events and the country's reputation took a battering as the IRFU defied a worldwide sporting boycott of South Africa.

20 February 1982: Gerry "Ginger" McLoughlin, Ireland, left, runs onto
the pitch, followed by Hugo MacNeill.

RTÉ refused to report on their games and yet, just a few months later the Irish rugby team were national heroes after winning the Triple Crown for the first time in over 30 years.

Piecing the story together with Donal O'Herlihy, we spoke to former players from Killiney to Cape Town and spent one bright March morning with swimmers in Kilkee.

Over several months we listened to stories of court battles and political interventions; petitions and torchlit processions; wooden spoons and Triple Crowns.

The Shakespearean drama in the Pacific between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy many years later had nothing on the 1981 and 1982 seasons for Irish rugby.

Under apartheid the majority black population in South Africa were deprived of voting rights, access to education, housing, jobs, even freedom of movement.

Less than a fifth of South Africa's population was white, yet they were the only ones who could vote. Inter-racial marriage was banned and the contrast between the prosperity of the white population and the abject poverty of the black population was stark.

In response, international sporting boycotts had been put in place.

It was set to be Ireland's first tour since 1961 and the decision provoked widespread criticism with the Government, the church and the unions all united on the issue.

At the time rugby was an amateur game and the IRFU were not reliant on state funding or corporate sponsorship. Despite huge political pressure, they were not for turning.

It left the players, who all had day jobs outside of rugby, wrestling with a huge decision and by the middle of March nearly half the squad had informed the IRFU they would be unavailable for a variety of reasons.

Tony Ward today

Tony Ward was one of those who turned down the opportunity on a matter of principle.

When I met Tony at Greystones rugby club one sunny afternoon, he spoke about the impact of his visit to South Africa with the Lions in 1980.

For others like Gerry McLoughlin and John Robbie, rugby came first at the time and they decided to go.

McLoughlin lives in Kilkee in west Clare and I spent the day with him as he went swimming and spoke about his life devoted to the game.

Gerry McLoughlin today

Over coffee and cake he talked about the many sliding door moments in his life like beating New Zealand with Munster; losing his job; emigration and crossing the line against England at Twickenham in 1982.

That try is one of the most famous in Irish rugby history, as he carried half the England team with him over the line.

It was also the defining moment of Ireland's 1982 Triple Crown-winning season - but only for the tour to South Africa, it might never have happened.

McLoughlin had spent the entire 1981 Five Nations campaign on the bench and the tour to South Africa was a chance to get himself back in the Ireland team.

At the time he was working as a schoolteacher in Limerick and he resigned his job to go on the tour.

Gerry McLoughlin today

John Robbie also resigned his job at Guinness to go to South Africa, but others like Ward, Donal Spring, Moss Keane and Hugo MacNeill turned down the invitation.

The tour had split the team and split the nation.

Making the documentary during a global pandemic presented new challenges and travelling to South Africa was never an option.

John Robbie caught Covid-19 in early January of this year, but thankfully made a full recovery and he spoke about the many life-changing and life-threatening moments from his time in South Africa.

He has lived there for the last 40 years and is still dealing with the guilt from that 1981 tour and trying to focus on the good that came from it.

Robbie ended up as part of the Springboks panel later in his career and another player who wore the green jerseys of both Ireland and South Africa is Dion O'Cuinneagain.

Dion grew up in South Africa, but later captained Ireland in the late 1990s and now works as a doctor in Cape Town.

When we spoke about the 1981 tour, he was busy battling the deadly second wave of Covid-19 that was ravaging South Africa.

O'Cuinneagain had attended the game between Ireland and the Springboks at Newlands Stadium in May 1981 as a nine-year-old with his Irish dad.

Errol Tobias today

Errol Tobias played that day, breaking new ground as the first ever black player to line out for South Africa.

At 71 years of age, Errol is fit and looks as though he could still do a job for his local club Caledon.

Behind him on the wall was the jersey of his opposite number for Ireland that day in 1981.

He spoke about the scrutiny he was under at the time as the first black Springbok and the difficulties he faced back then. And, 40 years on, the legacy of him crossing the line.
Documentary On One: Crossing The Line, RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 11th July at 6 pm - download the podcast here, and listen to more from Documentary On One here.

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Documentary on One - the Irish rugby squad who crossed the line

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The case for sports sanctions against Israel

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Examine the case for sports boycotts under ethics in sport

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The case for sports sanctions against Israel

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Both Fifa and the IOC have avoided statements denouncing the Israel-Gaza war and the ensuing humanitarian crisis, a decision in stark contrast to their handling of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Rafeef Ziadah - 'We teach life, sir', London, 12.11.11

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‘If I must die’ poem by Refaat Alareer & Class activities

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‘If I must die’ poem by Refaat Alareer & Class activities

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‘He wishes for to Sea’ by Mikey Cullen live 

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‘He wishes for to Sea’ by Mikey Cullen live 

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He wishes for to sea by Mikey Cullen live .

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 Fatin Al Tamimi on Instagram: "Palestinian Child’s Day
At the Zionist Israeli Embassy in Ireland. 
Genocide is no way to treat a child.
Torture is no way to treat a child.
Israeli ambassador should be kicked out of Ireland. #sanctionisrael 
Free Palestine"

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958 likes, 19 comments - fatinaltamimi on April 5, 2024: "Palestinian Child’s Day
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4 part series examining the Nakba. Great topic for LC special topics.

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Most believe the mass exodus of at least 750,000 Arabs from Palestine began in 1948. But in fact, Al Nakba began decades earlier. #Nakba

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What Ireland's history of resistance says about Palestine | Richard Boyd Barett | The Big Picture S2

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What Ireland's history of resistance says about Palestine | Richard Boyd Barett | The Big Picture S2

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‘He wishes for to Sea’ written and read by Mikey Cullen .

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‘He wishes for to Sea’ written and read by Mikey Cullen .

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3-point guide to Palestine and Israel for educators - DevelopmentEducation.ie

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A three-point guide for educators looking to make sense of the latest and most extreme clash of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Summary

This resource is an important development in helping post-primary students throughout the island of Ireland to explore the Palestinian Israeli situation within the context of Human Rights and International Law.

The resource addresses key issues underlying the origins of the conflict and current obstacles to bringing about a just peace.

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Palestine and Israel: How will there be a just peace? A Citizenship Education Resource for Transition Year and Key Stage 4 - DevelopmentEducation.ie

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This resource is intended to support young people in critically exploring conflict and peace building within a framework of Human Rights and International Law. Looking specifically at the Palestinian/ Israeli situation, the resource provides an opportunity for students to increase their knowledge and understanding, develop their skills of critical analysis, and share the experiences of [...]

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Teachers for Palestine   Lets Talk About Palestine   Katie the Busker

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The value of your voice. Play this song and listen to the wonderful Katie O’Connor afterwards. Have a discussion about the important role music can play in expression. Can your students investigate any other roles music played in giving voice to those who were living under occupation or any kind of injustice.

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Teachers for Palestine   Lets Talk About Palestine   Katie the Busker

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Discuss this clip: Key Questions-

What was the Holocaust?

What groups were targeted in the holocaust?

What were the consequences of the holocaust?

How is the holocaust viewed by Israelis and Palestinians?

Why is this holocaust survivor protesting against Israel’s military slaughter in Gaza?

Discuss the point of view of other survivors

Write a letter to Stephen Kapos.

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 Double Down News on Instagram: "Holocaust Survivor Message to US Campus Protesters:

This survivor of the Holocaust is against Genocide in Gaza & conflating Jewishness with Zionism, which does nothing but increase antisemitism.

Your protests are so persistent, large and global that eventually the Western leadership, which are trying to deny what’s going on, will be forced to face up to it.

There is a historic responsibility towards injustice, genocide and fascism.

Thank you for being brave and on the right side of history.

Stephen Kapos

#palestine #freepalestine #gaza #freepalestine🇵🇸 #palestine🇵🇸 #israel #us #usa #unitedstates #canmous #columbia #columbiauniversity #protest #america #uk #unitedkingdom"

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A great collection of Maps with explanation, showing the geographical changes but also the ongoing occupation and building of illegal settlements

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Thirteen maps explain how Israel’s military control over the Palestinian people affects every aspect of their lives.

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In this 30min interview Lamees Tomeh explains what it is like for a teenager living under the apartheid system and the level of control it has over her life.

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23 min video showing the Apartheid that Palestinians are subjected to.

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Farming Without Water Palestinian Agriculture in the Jordan Valley.mp4

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Farming Without Water Palestinian Agriculture in the Jordan Valley.mp4

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Palestine, A History 101 with Conall O’Dufaigh

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An excellent run through of the history of Palestine with history teacher Conall O’Dufaigh. This would be ideal to share with senior students for them to watch at home and maybe have a discussion in class afterwards.

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Palestine, A History 101 with Conall O’Dufaigh