I will just say this was not my experience. In my Arab Israeli crisis class, for example, we were encouraged to see and role play Palestinian and Israeli points of view, as well of those of the various nation states involved. You can’t get much more politically charged then that, and we needed to genuinely understand very “conservative” and “liberal” policy points of view.
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I met a Palestinian on a plane once, and we had a long conversation. He was born in an area that is now Jordan, but was not Jordan when he lived there. Later, he was flying through, and they claimed he was a Jordanian that hadn't performed his mandatory military service, and wouldn't let him leave. He eventually got away by the skin of his teeth when he found a higher up who took pity on him, and allowed him to leave as long as he "promised to return".
Very interesting person and I learned a lot about what's going on in that region and why it's so hard to resolve in a way consistent with our modern values.