Introduction to Palestinian Nakbah

Who knows about what's happening in Palestine?

• I do

• I don't

Did anyone at school or in the street make you feel uncomfortable about the Palestine crisis?

• Yes

• No

When did the Israel/Palestine conflict really begin?

• Hamas Invasion 2023

• Balfour Declaration 1917

• Late 1800's and Early 1900's

• First Intifada 1987

How did the Europeans feel about Jews in the late 1800's?

• They loved them.

• They considered them the "Jewish Problem"

• The gave them be best jobs

• They were undecided.

What is the difference between Zionism and Judaism?

• Judaism is a religion

  Zionism is the call for an Israeli country on Palestinian land.

• They are the same

• Zionism is a religion

  Judaism is the call for an Israeli country on Palestinian land.

• No one can know, this is a complex topic.

What is semitism?

• A policy favouring Palestinians

• A policy favouring Israelis

• A policy favouring Muslims

• A policy favouring Jewdaism

True or False: Anti-semitism (we just defined semitism, this is the opposite) is the same as anti-zionism?

• True

• False

How did Britain get hold of Palestinian land?

• They stole it.

• They tricked the Arabs to fight the Ottomans then colonized them.

• They invaded Palestine and gave the land to Israel

• No one knows.

How did Israelis grow the number of Jews living in Palestine? Choose all correct answers.

• They started with slow immigration before starting the Nakbah.

• They had lots of babies.

• They continue to bring in more Jews from around the world.

• Anyone whose mother or father is Jewish, is also Jewish.

Why did the Palestinians leave their homes during the first Nakbah?

• They were scared, and didn't want to die.

• There was a war happening.

• They were promised lots of money and gold if they went to Jordan.

• They thought it was temporary, and after the war they would go home.