Decolonial Praxis
Confronting Genocide in Gaza with TribalCrit and Human Rights Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v17i3.187072Keywords:
Palestinian liberation, Israel-Hamas war, Tribal Critical Race Theory, human rights education, decolonizing pedagogies, genocide, GazaAbstract
This article uses Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit) and human rights education (HRE) to frame instruction and solidarity for Palestinian liberation. These critical lenses are offered as a means to illuminate humanitarian crises and genocide during the Israel-Hamas war, which began in October 2023. Human rights concepts can support a critical interrogation of colonialism and other conditions of injustice (Bajaj, 2011), while TribalCrit’s ability to describe White supremacy and genocide in the Native American experience (Brayboy, 2005) demonstrates transferable potential in teaching about atrocities inflicted upon Palestinian people in Gaza. The pedagogical approaches included in this article link human rights violations during this conflict to human rights concepts and tenets of TribalCrit. These strategies are explicitly connected to social studies and social justice standards to scaffold instruction that supports transformational citizenship. Additionally, the author discusses recent successful experiences teaching university students and supporting campus activism with these critical frameworks.
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