Blog Post: May 22, 2016

This blog entry was brought to you by Arman I... We became exposed to the blazing heat as we walked out of the coach bus to begin our short tour of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp. As our group of about twenty individuals entered the camp, we all…

Blog Entry: May 16

This blog entry was brought to you by Amika S... We started our seventh day in Israel with a tour of the most significant Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. We started at the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the…

Blog Entry: Thursday, May 19

This blog post was brought to you by Amelie R... Thursday was an incredibly eventful day. We began the day with visiting an Israeli settlement beyond the green line and spoke with a member of the Binyamin Regional Council, a council of Jewish…

Blog Entry: May 19th Continued

This blog post was brought to you by Connor S... Visiting the city of Rawabi today was the most uplifting moment of my trip to Israel & Palestine so far. Rawabi is the first city planned by and built by Palestinians and is a beacon of…

May 15, 2016

This blog post is brought to you by Alec C... In 1942, Hitler’s Third Reich transformed a previous Prisoner’s of War camp into the most ruthless, industrial-level mass murdering machine that the world had ever witnessed. Auschwitz, otherwise…

Israel and the Palestinians: Conflict, Coexistence, and Cooperation

This blog post is brought to you by Liad M... May 17, 2016-The West Bank Gush Etzion “Our father’s footsteps went through here.”  Embarking on a day in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories began with an account of Judaism’s…

May 14-Colliding Narratives and Definitions

This blog post was brought to you by Melissa M...   In the Middle East, particularly in Israel, just about every term can be defined a thousand ways. We were able to appreciate the diversity in opinions and definitions in the…

Title: Im Tirtzu: “If you will it, it is no dream.”

This blog post was brought to you by Stephanie B... Guest Speakers We started the day by meeting two students from Hebrew University, a premier university in Israel. First we met Ala’a, an Israeli Palestinian student born in Haifa; when…

National Remembrance in Israel: Emotion, Identity, or Politics?

This blog post was brought to you by Marie S... This is a photo I took overlooking the Western Wall during the start of Shabbat on Friday, March 11, 2016. The circle of people is composed mostly of IDF soldiers, Birthright kids, confused…

Aziz Abu Sarah interviewed by Alan Johnson from Fathom

Aziz Abu Sarah was interviewed by Alan Johnson for Fathom about the role that vision, hope, and bridge building have in creating peace. "What we really need to do is build bridges between these two communities, especially among young people,…