Today, all but 2 of my students left intro #history class for #Palestine walkout. I excused them but noted 2 ironies:
1) They were engaging in a symbolic activity instead of studying #AfricanAmericans & #racism during #WWII
2) They had not known names of US #CivilRights icons A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marianne Anderson--yet presumed to understand the intricacies of one of the most tragic & intractable conflicts on earth
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I of course understand that students empathize with #Palestinians in #Gaza. Who, after, all, would not be moved by the tragic scenes?
My questions derived simply from what we have been studying about the complexity of evidence, sources, & nuance that undergird historical understanding:
- @AHAHistorians https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core
- Sam Wineburg on historical thinking https://profiles.stanford.edu/samuel-wineburg
How are students & citizens to navigate today's polarized information world?
@CitizenWald @AHAHistorians @histodons
So here is a "crazy" question. Will this spark a 60's like moment among today's college youth? Israel = Vietnam. Am I out in left field?
@histodons @CitizenWald @AHAHistorians @ekongkaar a
Their friends, neighbors, and classmates aren’t dying in this conflict like in Vietnam. This is closer to being Israel = South Africa pre-1991.
@YetAnotherGeekGuy @histodons @CitizenWald @AHAHistorians That makes sense. The apartheid of the Palestinians is what has gotten their ire up.
@histodons @ekongkaar @AHAHistorians @CitizenWald
Of course the ANC cultivated a civil disobedience/ Ghandi approach/perception which Hamas has completely blown away with its attack and hostage taking.
@YetAnotherGeekGuy @histodons @ekongkaar @AHAHistorians @CitizenWald yet, there's the West Bank, being continuously assaulted by settlers, and there are recorded cases when IDF were arming them. Even before 7 October, the number of killed was at a record high
