Getting Anti-Zionist

Curricular Disavowal, Radical Study, and Pedagogies of Solidarity with Palestinian Liberation

Authors

  • Jordan Corson Stockton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v17i3.187095

Keywords:

Palestinian Liberation, anti-Zionism, radical study, nonformal education, anticolonial education

Abstract

This conceptual paper thinks with dynamic critical pedagogies of Jewish anti-Zionists acting in solidarity with Palestinian liberation movements. From an anticolonial standpoint, the paper argues that other modes of education open radical possibilities for liberatory, collective work. Drawing on the author's memories and nonformal education experiences of a Zionist upbringing and current anti-Zionist activism, the paper traces curricular arrangements and explores implications of three types of educations. First, it analyzes the racist, settler colonial education of Zionism. Second, it thinks with the unlearning and radical study involved with becoming an anti-Zionist. Third, the paper explores the world-making pedagogies of solidarity that work toward a free Palestine.

Author Biography

Jordan Corson, Stockton University

Jordan Corson is an Associate Professor of Education and affiliated faculty member of the M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. He is the author of Reconceptualizing Education for Newcomer Youth (Teachers College Press, 2023) and, along with Dani Friedrich, T.V. as Curriculum Theory (Brill, 2025). His research has appeared in journals such as Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record, and Educational Philosophy and Theory. His public scholarship includes Anthro News and the podcast Fresh Ed. Jordan’s work takes up ethnographic and historical methods to explore issues of transnational migration and educational theory through anti-colonial and abolitionist praxis. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner and cats.

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Published

2026-08-17

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 3 (2026)

Section

Palestinian Liberation in Education: Solidarities and Activism for a Free Palestine

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