Educational Resources on Palestine
On history…
United Nations: Israel-Gaza Crisis
UN news and updates.
United Nations “The Question of Palestine”
History, timeline, and many other resources.
Israel and Gaza in maps and charts
Live feed that presents updated information through infographics, maps, and charts.
Israel’s war on Gaza live
Regularly updated information.
On action…
Advocating for Palestine
Booklet containing resources that “aims to equip readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to challenge misconceptions.”
On Art…
In Gaza, Filmmakers Asked Children: What Is Your Dream? | NYT Opinion
Palestinian Poems with and for the Now
At the Threshold of Humanity: Gaza is not an abstraction
These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.
10 PALESTINIAN ARTISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
”Everything Knows You Will Rise,” By Ghassan Zaqtan
“For the Dead Among Us," LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ FADIA JAWDAT
On numbers…
List of names of Palestinian children killed
List published by Al Jazeera containing names and ages of thousands of children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza. Only includes some of the names of the over 11,000 deceased children (as of January 30, 2024).
“Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity”
Slovic, Paul, David Zionts, Andrew Keane Woods, Ryan Goodman, and Derek Jinks. “Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY, April 14, 2011. https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1809951.
A psychologist explains the limits of human compassion
A more digestible interview with one of the authors of “Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity”.
Brains are bad at big numbers, making it impossible to grasp what a million COVID-19 deaths really means
“For most people, visualizing what a million of anything looks like is an impossible task. The human brain just isn’t built to comprehend such large numbers.” Two neuroscientists discuss learning and numerical cognition in reference to mass COVID-19 deaths.