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Historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, based on pathfinding research or provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public’s understanding of the Middle East. He also offers a forensic exploration of how misinformation arises and becomes “fact.” Divided into five themes, Kramer shows how error permeates the debate over each theme, creating distorted images that cause policy failures.
Photographed and written in Israel, this book will introduce young readers to many aspects of Israeli society and culture, including language, animals, holidays, cities, and food.
A humorous story about a painter, who is hired to paint a mural ahead of Israel’s Independence Day celebration and who has a tendency for procrastination, and his talented dog.
A memoir of war and dislocation can arouse sympathy in young readers, but the author’s hardships are no excuse for twisting international law and erasing Jewish history from the land of Israel.
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.
A novel for teens that idolizes terrorists as martyrs and erases Israeli suffering inverts the realities of the Middle East conflict. It doesn’t belong in the hands of impressionable young readers.
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