Words As Weapons: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict of Narratives”

During the quarter when he wrote this paper, Reingold-Nutman attended an event on the Stanford campus that featured former Israeli and Palestinian politicians. He proposed his ideas to the two men and both were receptive, he reports, to the “dual narrative approach” that suggests teaching Israeli and Palestinian children both Israeli and Palestinian histories of their shared region. In a society and world sharply divided in ways and on matters that reach far beyond the Middle East, a dual narrative approach—or, more generally, classrooms that include and listen to diverse viewpoints—will be key to taking those important small steps.