Teachers College, Columbia University

rm3793@tc.columbia.edu

The distressing video shows just some of the pain and suffering my family members endured at the behest of Israel's establishment. While my great grandmother watches helplessly as another family enters her home, you can also see the settler's blatant disregard as she smiles at the camera.

The generational trauma of exile, dispossession, occupation, and suffering directly speak to why I seek to inform, teach, and research all the ways that Palestinian-Americans experience that trauma in the diaspora.

I hope this padlet can teach and inform those who are eager to learn about Palestine. I also hope that teachers can begin to make transformative change in their classroom when they bring in this literature to their students.