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Israel rewrites history textbook

The Israeli government has, for the first time, approved a school textbook for Arab pupils that includes the Palestinian view of the...
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Refugee children rally to save Bethlehem playground

Signs and slogans were carried by children at a recent protest at Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Some of these young protesters were...
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Brandeis students disrupt speech of former Shin Bet chief

Students at Brandeis, the historically Jewish university in the Boston area of the United States, disrupted a speech by Avi Dichter, a...
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Muslim students face charges for disrupting Israeli ambassador at U.S. school

Eleven Muslim students who interupted a speech by Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren have pleaded not guilty to charges of...
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Deadly Israeli raid on aid fleet carrying education materials for Universities in Gaza

Israeli soldiers have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 10 people on...
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Israel’s textbooks in Arabic are full of mistakes, study finds

A new study has found more than 16,000 mistakes in Israeli textbooks used by Arab children. For example, the word for traffic light is...
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US students erect mock walls to connect struggles

In an effort to connect human rights struggles, students at the University of Arizona constructed a mock wall representing both...
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US campus activists facing increased repression

Marwa Katbi a Syrian American student at the University of Southern California looks at discrimination faced by Arab, Muslim and...
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Flyers threaten eviction, raise awareness

Members of the group Students for Justice and Peace in Palestine to raise awareness about the plight of Palestinians by distributing...
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Boycotting Israel…from within. Israelis explain why they joined the BDS movement

Mya Guarnieri looks into the debate of boycotting Israeli goods from within. Mya talks about how at first she was wary of getting...
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