🇺🇸 Texas is about to decide how an entire generation understands one of the world’s most divisive conflicts Under the 2030 social studies standards, students would explicitly connect Israel’s 1948 establishment to the Jewish ancestral homeland, emphasize Judeo-Christian influences on American history and identify “radical Islam” when studying 9/11. The bigger question is what happens when those choices are paired with less required attention to Palestinian displacement, competing historical claims and controversial actions by pre-1948 Zionist militias. The facts teachers are required to emphasize, and the context they aren’t, can significantly affect how students interpret the conflict. That’s why curriculum battles aren’t simply fights over whether individual statements are accurate. They’re also fights over selection, emphasis and which historical perspectives students encounter before forming their own conclusions. With Texas educating millions of students, those choices could influence how a generation understands the Middle East long after they leave the classroom. Source: Texas State Board of Education, The Young Turks YT / Writer: Val