CNN Promotes Anti-Israel Propaganda for Children
Elassar and CNN promote four children’s authors whose books feature Palestinian culture but also promote anti-Israel propaganda to young readers.
Marjorie Gann
Code Name: Butterfly – Turning Terrorists into Martyrs
Code Name: Butterfly
By Ahlam Bsharat; Nancy Roberts (translator) Neem Tree Press, 2016
The Palestinian education system is notorious for labeling terrorists as martyrs, inverting reality and upending morality. Children’s books that do the same don’t belong in the hands of young readers.
By Ahlam Bsharat; Nancy Roberts (translator) Neem Tree Press, 2016
The Palestinian education system is notorious for labeling terrorists as martyrs, inverting reality and upending morality. Children’s books that do the same don’t belong in the hands of young readers.
A Little Piece of Ground
A Little Piece of Ground
By Elizabeth Laird Haymarket Press, 2016
A story of the Second Intifada that demonizes and dehumanizes Israelis has no place in education. Yet that is exactly what Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground, now required reading in Newark public schools, does.
By Elizabeth Laird Haymarket Press, 2016
A story of the Second Intifada that demonizes and dehumanizes Israelis has no place in education. Yet that is exactly what Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground, now required reading in Newark public schools, does.
Wishing Upon the Same Stars
Wishing Upon the Same Stars
By Jacquetta Nammar Feldman New York: HarperCollins, 2022.
Children’s books aiming at even-handedness on the Arab-Israeli conflict usually fail – as novels, because they’re didactic, and as political tracts, because they’re inaccurate. The books that do succeed are most often by Israelis, who write what they live and have no illusions.
By Jacquetta Nammar Feldman New York: HarperCollins, 2022.
Children’s books aiming at even-handedness on the Arab-Israeli conflict usually fail – as novels, because they’re didactic, and as political tracts, because they’re inaccurate. The books that do succeed are most often by Israelis, who write what they live and have no illusions.
Determined to Stay: Propaganda in the Guise of Non-Fiction for Teens
Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village
By Jody Sokolower Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press (an imprint of Interlink Publishing), 2021
Israel’s enemies are finding ways to infiltrate curriculum, using fashionable buzzwords like “intersectionality” to camouflage hatred of Israel. Sokolower’s book exemplifies this deceptive practice.
By Jody Sokolower Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press (an imprint of Interlink Publishing), 2021
Israel’s enemies are finding ways to infiltrate curriculum, using fashionable buzzwords like “intersectionality” to camouflage hatred of Israel. Sokolower’s book exemplifies this deceptive practice.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Maligning Israel for Young Readers
The books we read as children stay with us all our lives. In our earliest stories, big, bad wolves threaten innocent children and we learn to despise them – replace that wolf with an Israeli soldier. That is the danger of the writings of Palestinian-American children’s poet and novelist Naomi Shihab Nye.
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