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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
A Remarkable Thing Happened Today
The National Geographic trip around Israel, comanaged with mejdi, that I'm on is remarkable in that it is co-lead by an Israeli and a Palestinian. The focus on the trip isn't tourism, it's to "Hear a broad spectrum of narratives on this expedition designed in true partnership by Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Jews." For those of you know a bit about the situation in Israel, this in itself would be remarkable. Specifically, it is not only extremely rare for an Israeli and a Palestinian to work together as colleagues, it's extremely rare for two of them to even know each other.
The remarkable thing that happened started with yesterday's (Monday) news that Israel is in the process of making a law that stone throwing will lead to a 20 year sentence. As it turns out, the Palestinian leader of our group was jailed in his teens for a year for throwing stones in the first Intifada. Since then, he has done a number of things but he is now a peace activist.
So the Israeli leader of our group posts to his Facebook page that he thinks this would be a bad thing and relates the story of it on Facebook. This gets shared and commented on extensively. This morning, before he came to work (to lead our group), his Facebook page had about 900 likes and hundreds of positive comments. There were also, by his count, about 1500 hate mails to him.
Today, and this is where it gets remarkable, he was contacted by Israeli Channel 10 who wanted to cover this. I went with the two of them over to the studio to watch them get interviewed. It'll show at midnight tonight. Stay tuned.
The team: (source National Geographic):
Yuval Ben-Ami. Author, journalist, traveler and cultural critic Yuval Ben-Ami writes for the Hebrew edition of National Geographic magazine and has published a monthly column in the Hebrew edition of National Geographic Traveler. Born in Jerusalem, Yuval later moved to the United States and began writing for Israeli and international newspapers and magazines, among them Haaretz, the Boston Globe, and Yedioth Aharonot. His books include Susanna, Don’t You Cry—a travelogue of the American South—Finnish Mythology, the novel I’ll Meet You Halfway, and two travel books about Israel: Wonderland and A Day on the Town. He also hosts a radio show and is a founder of the web magazine +972 http://972mag.com/. Yuval's work in conflict resolution began in 2000 at Jerusalem's Youth Center of World Cultures, where he introduced Jewish high school students to Palestinian culture and narrative. He has since mediated, lectured, and trained in a number of forums, and appeared as guest speaker in numerous universities in Israel and abroad. Since 2007, he has also led cultural travel experiences, bringing individuals into areas they would not normally visit: Israelis into Hebron, Palestinians to Tel-Aviv, secular Jews to Meah Shearim, and so on, creating unique encounters. Articles by Yuval: http://972mag.com/author/yuvalb/
Husam Jubran. Husam Jubran serves as a Representative in Palestine in Jorad for the Middle East/North Africa Social Innovates Program and is based in Paelestine. He has a Master degree from the Eastern Mennonite University in Conflict transformation and Peacebuilding and Diploma in tourism. Mr Jubran works also as an interfaith tour guide in the Holy Land and provides trainings in Conficlt Management, Crisis Management, and Nonviolence.
http://www.mejditours.com/about/meet-mejdi/
http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/expeditions/holyland/experts
The remarkable thing that happened started with yesterday's (Monday) news that Israel is in the process of making a law that stone throwing will lead to a 20 year sentence. As it turns out, the Palestinian leader of our group was jailed in his teens for a year for throwing stones in the first Intifada. Since then, he has done a number of things but he is now a peace activist.
So the Israeli leader of our group posts to his Facebook page that he thinks this would be a bad thing and relates the story of it on Facebook. This gets shared and commented on extensively. This morning, before he came to work (to lead our group), his Facebook page had about 900 likes and hundreds of positive comments. There were also, by his count, about 1500 hate mails to him.
Today, and this is where it gets remarkable, he was contacted by Israeli Channel 10 who wanted to cover this. I went with the two of them over to the studio to watch them get interviewed. It'll show at midnight tonight. Stay tuned.
The team: (source National Geographic):
Yuval Ben-Ami. Author, journalist, traveler and cultural critic Yuval Ben-Ami writes for the Hebrew edition of National Geographic magazine and has published a monthly column in the Hebrew edition of National Geographic Traveler. Born in Jerusalem, Yuval later moved to the United States and began writing for Israeli and international newspapers and magazines, among them Haaretz, the Boston Globe, and Yedioth Aharonot. His books include Susanna, Don’t You Cry—a travelogue of the American South—Finnish Mythology, the novel I’ll Meet You Halfway, and two travel books about Israel: Wonderland and A Day on the Town. He also hosts a radio show and is a founder of the web magazine +972 http://972mag.com/. Yuval's work in conflict resolution began in 2000 at Jerusalem's Youth Center of World Cultures, where he introduced Jewish high school students to Palestinian culture and narrative. He has since mediated, lectured, and trained in a number of forums, and appeared as guest speaker in numerous universities in Israel and abroad. Since 2007, he has also led cultural travel experiences, bringing individuals into areas they would not normally visit: Israelis into Hebron, Palestinians to Tel-Aviv, secular Jews to Meah Shearim, and so on, creating unique encounters. Articles by Yuval: http://972mag.com/author/yuvalb/
Husam Jubran. Husam Jubran serves as a Representative in Palestine in Jorad for the Middle East/North Africa Social Innovates Program and is based in Paelestine. He has a Master degree from the Eastern Mennonite University in Conflict transformation and Peacebuilding and Diploma in tourism. Mr Jubran works also as an interfaith tour guide in the Holy Land and provides trainings in Conficlt Management, Crisis Management, and Nonviolence.
http://www.mejditours.com/about/meet-mejdi/
http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/expeditions/holyland/experts
After my Friend Yuval Ben-Ami published this post we were approached by Israel TV channel 10 for interview. We will be on Tzinor Liala show at midnight tonight.
This is translation of the post from Yuval Ben Ami's Facebook Page :
My colleague and dear friend Husam Jubran threw his first stone in 1988. He was caught and spent a year in Israeli prison. Had he been incarcerated for 20 years, as Israel now plans to do to stone throwers, he would have been released in 2008, thereby missing the personal and professional course that is his life story. This course led him to become a non-violent activist, who works with Palestinian and Israeli youths, enabling them to develop dialogue, as well as a genius guide, who works with Israelis on a day to day basis and describes the Israeli spirit better than I ever could. Instead, he would have become twenty-fold more bitter, a man without a future and without a past, who has only the anger to call his own
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