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

2. 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.

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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

8. The Great Power: Great Britain
Notes: Page 38
Pads: Palestinians
The Land of Pad
Palestine
Jeds: Diaspora of Jews
The Great Power: Great Britain

9. 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.

10. 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 ( )
World War II
Allies: Great Britain, US, Soviet Union versus
Axis: Italy, Germany, Japan
United Nations- Formed after WWII for
peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance