17th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference

There is a throughline from the dispossession of Palestinian peasants in the late Ottoman Empire and early British Mandate to today’s violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Participants will engage in this classroom-tested mystery/mixer activity to explore the roots of today’s violence in Palestine-Israel. We meet early Zionists, Ottoman officials, Palestinian peasants and journalists, British leaders, a member of the Jewish Bund, and President Woodrow Wilson to search for the “seeds” of today’s violence.