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How I Learned to Speak Israel is a guide for Americans wanting to better understand the Israel/Palestine situation. It is the author's story of how he thought he knew about the situation and history only to learn that a lot of mythology was mixed in. This book provides tools and approaches for discerning what is fact from fiction. How I Learned to Speak Israel emphasizes the importance of the language used to create the understandings we have of the situation and how the language used by the media and politicians affects domestic US policy and our rights as Americans.

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"How I Learned To Speak Israel is a remarkable book...it delves even deeper into explicating the strange, unwise, and increasingly dangerous trance most American leaders are under when it comes to Israel...The explanations are so powerful they explode the trance. -LAWRENCE WILKERSON Former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell How I learned to Speak Israel is a must read for any American. Learning to Speak ""Israel'' is a crucial part of any American's political awakening. -MIKO PELED Author and activist Author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five Alex McDonald's How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American's Guide to a Foreign Policy Language provides an invaluable perspective to the most fraught political issue of our time. -CAROLYN L. KARCHER Editor of Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation Alex McDonald's book How I Learned to Speak Israel attracts our attention to the importance of words in the struggle for justice in Palestine...This book exposes methodically how texts and images help to produce and perpetuate the perceptions and framing of Israel and Palestine within the American public. -ILAN PAPPÉ Professor of History Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies University of Exeter Author of: Ten Myths About Israel, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Biggest Prison on Earth, among others."

How I Learned To Speak Israel is a remarkable book...it delves even deeper into explicating the strange, unwise, and increasingly dangerous trance most American leaders are under when it comes to Israel...The explanations are so powerful they explode the trance. -LAWRENCE WILKERSON Former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell How I learned to Speak Israel is a must read for any American. Learning to Speak Israel'' is a crucial part of any American's political awakening. -MIKO PELED Author and activist Author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five Alex McDonald's How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American's Guide to a Foreign Policy Language provides an invaluable perspective to the most fraught political issue of our time. -CAROLYN L. KARCHER Editor of Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation Alex McDonald's book How I Learned to Speak Israel attracts our attention to the importance of words in the struggle for justice in Palestine...This book exposes methodically how texts and images help to produce and perpetuate the perceptions and framing of Israel and Palestine within the American public. -ILAN PAPPE Professor of History Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies University of Exeter Author of: Ten Myths About Israel, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Biggest Prison on Earth, among others.

"How I Learned To Speak Israel is a remarkable book...it delves even deeper into explicating the strange, unwise, and increasingly dangerous trance most American leaders are under when it comes to Israel...The explanations are so powerful they explode the trance. -LAWRENCE WILKERSON Former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell How I learned to Speak Israel is a must read for any American. Learning to Speak ""Israel'' is a crucial part of any American's political awakening. -MIKO PELED Author and activist Author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five Alex McDonald's How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American's Guide to a Foreign Policy Language provides an invaluable perspective to the most fraught political issue of our time. -CAROLYN L. KARCHER Editor of Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation Alex McDonald's book How I Learned to Speak Israel attracts our attention to the importance of words in the struggle for justice in Palestine...This book exposes methodically how texts and images help to produce and perpetuate the perceptions and framing of Israel and Palestine within the American public. -ILAN PAPP� Professor of History Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies University of Exeter Author of: Ten Myths About Israel, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Biggest Prison on Earth, among others."

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Alex McDonald is a Quaker committed to the values of freedom and equality. He is a co-founder of the Texas Coalition for Human Rights, has been a presenter to the Texas Council for Social Studies, was part of an interfaith delegation to Palestine and Israel, and was on the crew of one of the 2018 Gaza Freedom Flotilla boats that brought international attention to the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.

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