2 of 3.  How can educators who teach about Palestine answer false allegations of antisemitism? Last weekend, two colleagues and I attended the NW Teaching for Social Justice conference and gave a workshop on this topic. We suggested using a toolkit developed by Nora Lester Murad and Alice Rothchild called https://idainthemiddle.com/teaching-resources/toolkit-to-defend-k-12-educators-librarians-against-false-accusations-of-antisemitism/.  Briefly, teachers and librarians should establish their antiracist classrooms and libraries from the beginning of the school year. Bring in diverse voices and issues from around the globe and throughout history. Palestine has its own beautiful culture and language, and is one of many places suffering from racism, segregation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism, and imperialism. If you have already been teaching about peoples and issues around the world, then Palestine fits right in. Let your principal and parents (and union rep) know that this is how you’re teaching from the start of the year. When Palestine is seen as another fascinating culture — but also part of a larger pattern of global injustice–, your classroom and library are much more protected from claims that teaching about Palestine is antisemitic. Questions, need suggestions for lessons? please email me at palestineteachingtrunk@gmail.com.