• The Teach Palestine website, a collaborative project by and for K-12 teachers and educators who are bringing Palestine into their classrooms. The site includes curriculum from elementary school through high school, a curated list of videos, and articles about teaching Palestine in the US and education in Palestine. Website access and materials are free.
• Regular workshops on teaching Palestine at social justice curriculum conferences for K-12 and post-secondary educators. Recent conferences include San Francisco Teachers 4 Social Justice; Free Minds, Free People; New York Collective of Radical Educators; Cross Borders Conference; Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice; and others.
• Collaborations with schools and school districts on how to integrate Palestine into curriculum and relate it to issues that most affect your students. Recent collaborations have included connecting Pueblo and Navajo history to Palestine at the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico and a workshop on militarized border zones in Douglas, Arizona, at the US/Mexico border.
• Support for teachers on developing and implementing curriculum about Palestine.
• Classroom visits

Responding to requests from teachers, MECA joined collaborated with AROC, Teachers 4 Social
Justice, People’s Education Movement and Alliance of South Asians Taking Action to hold a one-
day workshop on “Sanctuary Education: A conference for k-12 teachers, staff and youth
workers on meeting the needs of Arab and Muslim youth in the Trump era.”

With beautiful, high-resolution print images of the exhibit, the book also features a special foreword by celebrated author, Alice Walker, as well as an essay by MECA Executive Director, Barbara Lubin, describing the struggle against the censorship.*

After displaying the children’s exhibit for two months in a small retail space, where hundreds came to view the artwork, we hope that the release of this book will allow the children’s drawings to reach an even broader audience.

As we approach the three-year anniversary of Israel’s brutal assault on the Gaza Strip, in which over 1400 civilians were killed including 352 children, the need to support the ones who survived to tell their stories and the trauma they experienced through art is now more crucial than ever.

Undoubtedly, the drawings featured in “A Child’s View from Gaza” serve as part of the historical record of the horror inflicted on the Palestinian people during Operation Cast Lead as experienced by Gaza’s children. Photos of the aftermath and the recent efforts by pro-Israel groups to censor the children’s art are also highlighted in the book.

Thousands of you stood up for the right of children in Gaza to be heard, and now you can continue to support them by sharing their artwork.

Buy your copy today through Shop Palestine, MECA’s online store! for just $25.75! Send another as a gift to a family member or a friend as a gift! A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship [ISBN: 978-1-881896-35-7, 80 pages]

Largely born out of a MECA-sponsored project, “Let the Children Play and Heal,” the drawings were designed to help children cope with the trauma they experienced during Israel’s 2008-2009 assault on Gaza.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will support children’s centers in Gaza.