How to Talk to Your Kids About Palestine/Israel and the Resistance Movement – A Resource Guide

It is narrated that the Messenger of God (saw), who said: “The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion, and

sympathy are just like one body. When one of the limbs suffers, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever.”

The recent attack by Hamas against Israel and resulting declaration of war by Israel in the Gaza Strip has led to numerous casualties and injuries. As this escalates, our children will undoubtedly hear and see the horrors it brings. Many already are. This is the latest in a long line of brutality, violence and oppression going back decades, bringing forth difficult conversations with our children over and over.

How do we do these conversations? What are appropriate things to share? Below is list of helpful resources to discuss with your children.

Educating ourselves and our children opens the dialogue for understanding, critical thinking, and, most importantly, Prophetic empathy and our religious duty to stand for justice and with the oppressed – wherever they may be. It is with hope and prayer that this resource list can facilitate and help our kids navigate tough conversations on the current crisis among their peers with integrity of faith.

Above everything, we need to demonstrate to our children the Prophetic teaching that among the best of actions when one is unable to physically correct a wrong is to hate it in our hearts and make sincere du’a/supplication for the situation we seek to change. The lesson to impart to them should be that God is the Disposer of all affairs and He is the One we place our trust in.

We are reminded by our dear brother, the late Sohaib Sultan, who was the Muslim chaplain at Princeton University (God have mercy on him), in a beautiful prayer he made for the Palestinians in a 2014 Time magazine article, that in the end, God is always with us and hears us:

“May innocent children, women, and men who are victims of our collective evil rest in peace as they return to the One who is all-loving, most kind. May they experience an eternal life of bliss where they will never again have to hear another explosion or experience another painful wound. May their loved ones who are left behind find the inner peace and fortitude to live on. May God forgive us for our evils here on earth and for our lack of compassion, courage, and wisdom in these times. May God grant us strength and patience and show us the enlightened way of forgiveness, reconciliation, and peaceful coexistence. Amen.”

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