Promoting Healthy Dialogue About the Israel/Hamas War
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For the past two months we have been inundated with heartbreaking and tragic news over the war between Israel and Hamas. The war has impacted so many of our students, staff and faculty as well as their families and friends, like so many other meaningful events that occur across the country and world. At the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we have heard staff, faculty, and administrators ask for space to reflect on the impact of the war and support and guidance on how to engage and support healthy conversation.
The InterGroup Dialogue program (a program of ODEI) would like to invite Staff, Faculty and Administrators to take a moment to reflect on the war, and how we engage in conversation about it.
Please join us for Promoting Healthy Dialogue About the Israel/Hamas War on Friday, December 15, 2023 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm in the Diaz Compean Student Union, Meeting Room 3. This will be a closed space for SJSU employees only, please register here to attend.
Our Intentions for this event:
- To connect with each other as SJSU employees
- To reflect on the impacts of the Israel/Hamas war as they may appear
- in our colleagues
- in our work places and spaces
- in our communities
- To reflect and explore on how we engage in inclusive conversations about the war and avoiding some pitfalls of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racist tropes with the assistance of this document
This is not a space to debate or educate others about the War. We are holding space for staff, faculty, and administrators to decide together how to have healthy dialogue about the war. We ask that you respect the intention of this space and will ask you to leave if you cannot honor this intention.
We will have short content focused presentations for the entire group, and smaller group conversation facilitated by trained facilitators from the InterGroup Dialogue program. A representative from the Employee Assistance Program/Empathia/LifeMatters will be present as well to provide individual mental health support if you need it during this session.
Resources:
Quick Links:
- SJSU Resources
- Dialogue Resources
- Media
SJSU Resources
Mental Health Resources from Empathia/LifeMatters/Employee Assistance
- Self Care Strategies [pdf]
- Reactions to Humanitarian crisis [pdf]
- More information for SJSU Empathia/Life Matters/Employee Assistance
Policy
- Presidential Directive on Freedom of Expression and Time, Place and Manner [pdf]
- Free Speech at SJSU
Dialogue Resources
Avoiding Racist Language
- Avoiding Anti-Jewish and Anti-SWANA Racist Language Handout used during the event
- Anti-Jewish Racist Tropes: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. Fact Sheet on the Elements of Anti-Semitic Discourse [pdf]
- Anti-Muslim Racist Tropes: Bridge - A Georgetown University Initiative. Factsheet: Common Anti-Muslim Tropes
- Is Anti-Zionism Always antisemitic? A Fraught Question For The Moment, by Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, December 10, 2023
- Resources from Solutions not Sides (about the organization)
Tiertary Education Focus
- Teaching About the Israel-Hamas War, New York Times
- Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University, The New Yorker Radio Hour, May 3, 2024.
- NPR: How two Dartmouth professors are addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [audio and transcript]
- University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagment Speech Matters Podcast: When Speech Causes Stress: Supporting Campus Constituents
- New York Times coverage of Student Protesters at NYU, Yale, U of Michigan, and Colleges/Universities across the country
- WBZ Boston CBS News coverage from 4/22 of MIT, Emerson, Tufts and Harvard
- Bay Area college student rally for worker's, Palestinian rights, abc7news.com, May 1, 2024.
- Amid campus protests, some teens and parents reconsider enrollment decisions, cnn.com Business, May 1, 2024
History
- 1948: How the events fo that fateful year shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades to come. The Daily podcast, The New York Times. November 3, 2023. [Audio and Transcript]
- A History of Hamas. Throughline podcast, National Public Radio, November 16, 2023. [Audio and Transcript]
- The Rise of the Right Wing in Israel. Throughline podcast. National Public Radio, March 7, 2024. [Audio and Transcript]
Media
Bias
Trustworthiness of News
- News Literacy Project
- NewsGuard Israel-Hamas War Misinformation Tracking Center: 111 Myths About the Conflict and counting
- Mother Jones "Read With Extreme Caution": A Journalist's Guide to Israel-Palestine Media Literacy
- A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way. By Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, October 28th, 2023.
Social Media as a Source for News
- Social Media and News Fact Sheet, Pew Research Center, November 15, 2023
- From TV to TikTok, how we get the news is changing fast: As social media and phones grow to dominate news coverage, people are consuming just as much news as ever. by Heather Kelly, The Washington Post, November 15, 2023
- Many Americans find value in getting news on social media, but concerns about inaccuracy have risen. by Luxuan Wang and Naomi Forman-Katz, Pew Research Center February 7, 2024
- Breaking the Tradition: How Social Media is Shaping the Future of News Consumption. by The Frog Initiative on LinkedIn.com, November 17, 2023
- Not Exactly News - Younger People More Likely to Trust What They Read On Social Media by Peter Such, Forbes. June 28, 2022
- How misinformation on social media has changed news. USPIRG (United States Public Interest Research Group), August 14, 2023, updated November 22, 2023