Friday, June 10th
12:00 PM Eastern Time
With Jeanne Trabulsi
“ICS Textbook Manipulations: VCHR Pushback”
Jeanne will discuss how Israeli lobby organizations try to infiltrate the US education system and how they fought against it.
Jeanne Trabulsi has spent her career in education, communications, and public relations. She is presently coordinator of the Education Committee of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights and has taught at the university and K-12 levels for over 15 years.
She is the founder of the Refugee Doll Project. The Project is partnered with the Welcoming Library, a pop-up collection of acclaimed picture books that feature New Arrival and New American families. The portable library travels between schools, public libraries, and community centers in Virginia to build an environment of welcoming and belonging.
Said Arikat is a Member of the Palestine Center Committee, and the Washington bureau chief for the Palestinian newspaper al-Quds, a daily for which he is a writer, columnist, and analyst. He previously served as spokesman and director of public information for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, and currently teaches as an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC.
