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Israeli court upholds travel ban on Amnesty International campaigner


Israel has barred Laith Abu Zeyad from leaving the occupied West Bank since 2019, citing security reasons
Laith Abu Zeyad has been banned from leaving the occupied West Bank since October 2019 (Amnesty International)
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An Israeli court has upheld a travel ban against a Palestinian campaigner for Amnesty International who has been barred from leaving the occupied West Bank.
The rights group said in a statement on Tuesday that a judge at the Jerusalem District Court accepted the Israeli security agency’s position that Laith Abu Zeyad constitutes a security threat, effectively rubber-stamping the ban.  ....

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California school curriculum turns into Jewish-Arab battle of narratives


George Washington High School in San Francisco, California, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools throughout the US state.
The process took over two years, multiple versions, and drew nearly 100,000 public comments.
In one ongoing conflict, Jewish and pro-Arab groups have accused each other of discrimination and trying to silence each other’s histories.
Several authors of the original draft have demanded their names be stripped from the final version, saying it’s watered down and substandard. Their draft was criticized for taking a left-wing, biased and a politically charged view of history, including terms like “hxrstory” and “herstory.” It defined capitalism as a system of oppression an ....

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After years of debate, California high schools will teach ethnic studies. But whose stories get told?


The final draft was criticized by authors of the original version as watered down and substandard, with all of them demanding their names be stripped from the proposal.
In one ongoing conflict, Jewish and pro-Arab groups have accused each other of discrimination and trying to silence each other’s histories.
California’s ethnic studies debate highlights some of the difficult questions educators will face in an era when the US is redefining its heroes and asking whose stories should be told. More than three-quarters of California’s 6.2 million public school students are nonwhite.
“We’ve worked to bring justice to what we believe the ethnic studies movement to be about,” Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, told reporters. ....

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