Jews and Palestinians: Two Claims to Palestine Israel Jews and Palestinians: Two Claims to Palestine

Top of page 37 – White margin SS7H2b. Explain the historical reasons for the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948; include the Jewish connection to the land, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and Zionism in Europe.

Top of Page 37 – Below the Standard Write the question and answer: Have you ever been involved in a situation you felt was unfair? What was it and what did you do?

Should Jeds be allowed to immigrate to the Land of Pad?

Connecting Questions How did you feel at the beginning of the activity? How did you feel when I, the Great Power, allowed several Jeds to immigrate? Jeds, how did you feel when immigration was restricted? Pads, how did it feel when immigration for Jeds was restricted?

Connecting Questions How did you feel toward me, the Great Power, when I kept favoring the Jeds and allowing them to immigrate? How were your views on immigration affected by the announcement that millions of Jeds had been killed? How did you feel at the end of the activity? Should the land of Pad now be 1 independent country governed by the majority, or should land be split into 2 separate countries, 1 for each group? Why?

History- Top of page 38 The Great Power: The Land of Z: Jeds: Pads: Great Britain The Land of Z: Israel Jeds: Jews Pads: Palestinians Empire of Ott: Ottoman Empire Land of Pad: Palestine

The Great Power: Great Britain Notes: Page 38 Pads: Palestinians The Land of Pad Palestine 1918 - 1948 Jeds: Diaspora of Jews The Great Power: Great Britain

Anti-Semitism- Violence and hatred directed towards Jews. Vocabulary – page 38 Diaspora- The scattering of Jews throughout the Middle East. Zionism- An international movement for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Balfour Declaration- In 1917, the British signed saying they supported making Palestine a Jewish homeland Anti-Semitism- Violence and hatred directed towards Jews.

Vocabulary – page 37 / 38 Mandate- a country placed under the control of another power by international agreement Holocaust- German Nazis led by Adolf Hitler killed 6 million Jews (1939-1945) World War II- 1939-1945 Allies: Great Britain, US, Soviet Union versus Axis: Italy, Germany, Japan United Nations- Formed after WWII for peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance