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History Textbooks for Arab Schools in Israel as a Reflection of Political and Social Development in Israel and the Middle East: The Balfour Declaration and the 1948 War

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Abstract

This study examines history textbooks for elementary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools in Israel’s Arab sector from 1948 to 2008. A common argument is that the Jewish majority in the State of Israel constructed the study of history for the Arab minority, by means of the history textbooks under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. The following research attempts to investigate first whether the Jewish education system, which was responsible for the education of the Arab minority during the period in question, actually imposed the Jewish-Zionist narrative in the textbooks for the purpose of domination over the Arab minority. Further, it examines whether this domination was complete or whether trends have been evident of incorporating Muslim Arab history into textbooks, thus providing Arab students with sources of identification.

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    This textbook has been published since the early 1970s with no significant changes.

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    For example, Ziv, al- T’arīkh lil-Ṣaff al-Thānī ʿAshar fi al-Madāris al-Thānawiyya –al-‘Aṣr al-Hadīth, 1967, 229. (Translated from Hebrew)

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  1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Hana Shemesh (Rash)

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  1. Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Elie Podeh

  2. School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel

    Samira Alayan

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Shemesh (Rash), H. (2018). History Textbooks for Arab Schools in Israel as a Reflection of Political and Social Development in Israel and the Middle East: The Balfour Declaration and the 1948 War. In: Podeh, E., Alayan, S. (eds) Multiple Alterities. Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62244-6_6

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