Students ask Educators: How can we trust history if the present is being distorted!

Educators! We are deeply committed to instilling in our students the ethics of scientific research, the importance of meticulous research, referencing and documentation, transparent and honest handling of information. Researchers, scholars, and students have dedicated a significant amount of time and effort to writing and learning the principles and methodologies of scientific research. But allow me to pose these questions:

1. Is the ethical approach to scientific research, inquiry, and honest information dissemination confined to academic research only?
2. Do world doctors and educators adhere to the ethics of scientific research when forming their perspectives and biases on just humanitarian issues?
3. Why are facts distorted and altered, despite events happening live with high-quality imagery and precise documentation?
4. How can you adopt a position or form a conviction about something you don’t truly know its reality, roots, or history?

When I received many messages from my students from diverse backgrounds telling me that they were concerned upon my return to Palestine and the outbreak of war, I asked them, without any bias towards my cause, to research the truth thoroughly and to stand for just humanitarian issues no matter the cost. This was the message.

However, as a young Palestinian educator and writer who dreams of freedom, justice, and equality in the world, who dreams that all the children of the world will live in security, peace, and happiness, it kills me and breaks my heart to see that the realities unfolding in front of  my eyes are being conveyed to the world in a distorted, fabricated, and distorted manner. We see this clearly on many channels such as CNN and BBC channels!

It deeply troubles the youth (Generation Z) who follow various channels on social media and have friends from all around the world when they witness those who are tasked with educating them not committed to principles of transparency, honesty, accuracy, research, and documentation in their own lives!” They see them publish their biased views blindly in favor of the great powers (financially and economically, no more) and with their support, they ignore 75 years of history! They ignore the Balfour Declaration in which Britain gave a national homeland to the Jews in Palestine. They ignore all the historians, scholars, writers, and journalists who documented and conveyed what happened in Palestine: ethnic cleansing and genocide against thousands of innocent people to establish their state after the tragic and sorrowful genocide they endured in Europe! and they deal with events only from the date of October 7, 2023! They have shown bias towards Israel and erased 75 years of history, wiping out the history of three consecutive generations, nearly 14 million people, 5 million of them are refugees around the world due to their expulsion from their homeland in 1948.

If you were well-informed about the Palestinian issue and Israeli occupation, you wouldn’t have woken up, felt sorrow, and adopted a stance only on October 7, 2023! Or do you perhaps consider the Palestinian people as not deserving of life or maybe their skin color differs from yours? Or maybe you regard them as part of the third world! I honestly don’t know!”

How will we convince the Palestinian children and youth and there friends from all the world, (Generation Z, and Alpha) , who will build and lead the future, that there is justice, equality, and humanity in a world!