PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

Off the beaten track tours • Visit sites • Meet locals • Discuss Human Rights & Politics

Four Days to Heal Khalil

– A peace initiative by Aref Dajani – The past 100 years brought mistrust. We share the same existential fear of the Other. Khalil/Hebron is the City of Abraham, home to SIX monotheistic faiths. In the most fractured city from the River to the Sea, we share the Abraham Mosque and the Tomb of the […]

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Why Israel? And why now?

– A New Immigrant’s Story by Emily Ruth – In the Israeli Declaration of Independence it is written Israel ‘will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace… it will ensure complete equality…it will guarantee freedom of religion, race or sex…’ […]

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New tourism: learning about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

– by Ksenia Svetlova – Enjoying a Sabbath meal at a West Bank settlement, meeting Palestinian artists in Ramallah, popping over to Israel’s border to see the Gaza Strip from there — a growing number of tourists is interested in seeing more than just the regular tourist sites and attractions of the Holy Land. They want to hear […]

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Movie review – Zero Motivation

The past few films we discussed in Green Olive’s movie review series tackled the political situation head on. While they are more direct and satisfying for the viewer, this is usually not how most residents of Israel and Palestine experience conflict or occupation on a daily basis. The majority of people here, as anywhere, are […]

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Atarot Airport

When travelling from Jerusalem to anywhere in the northern West Bank, most people will pass the notorious Qalandiya checkpoint. Maybe you made the trip yourself? On the Jerusalem side there is a curious expanse of concrete which would puzzle anyone new to the area. In a land were territory is always hotly contested it may […]

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Gay Travel Platform MisterB&B Exceeds $500K on Wefunder

Gay Travel Platform MisterB&B Exceeds $500K on Wefunder This article was originally published on Crowdfundinsider and is written by Erin Hobey. The gay travel platform misterb&b has quickly surpassed $516K with the help of 916+ investors, easily bypassing its minimum target, and on its way to a $1M Wefunder campaign target goal. Just last year the […]

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2019 Speaking Tour – USA

Green Olive Partners Mohammad Barakat and Fred Schlomka will be on a speaking tour across the USA at the end of September. Fred and Mohammad will be discussing recent events on the ground in Israel/Palestine and the work of the Green Olive Collective. They will also introduce a new project and our unique crowdfunding campaign launching soon. Green […]

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2019 writing competition

NOW OPEN FOR VOTING BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC UNTIL 27TH SEPTEMBER  >> VOTE HERE >> ENTRY FORM | VIEW PAST ENTRIES | VIEW CURRENT ENTRIES The Green Olive Collective is launching a writing competition and you are invited to share your thoughts with our community! There are cash prizes to be won and author Gershon Baskin has kindly […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ How couchsurfing broadened my horizon– by Miriam Blanchette, Sweden –   We had just got out of the store when I experienced the chilling sounds of the air raid sirens. One minute later I heard explosions from the rockets intercepted by the […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Hospitality– by AA – Hospitality. That is one of the main words I would use to describe my experience in Israel-Palestine. In all of the major cities and villages I visited, again and again, I would hear “You are welcome.” Of […]

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2019 writing competition – semi-finalists

We are very happy to announce the semi-finalists for this year’s Green Olive writing competition. It humbling to see how many of you in the Green Olive community took the time to write in and we thoroughly enjoyed reading all the entries. In the end we selected 16 semi-finalists. Now it is your job to […]

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2019 writing competition

 You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ A Place Called Palestine– by Alice Yu –  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to not have the freedom to travel the world, or even to travel within your own country? I asked myself these questions when I […]

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