Off the beaten track tours • Visit sites • Meet locals • Discuss Human Rights & Politics
– by Fred Schlomka – 13th JuneJerusalem — Almog Junction – En Gedi54km. I spent the night of the 12th at a friend’s house and awoke at 3am to begin the trip. I drove through almost empty streets and passed through the Mount Scopus Tunnel into the Judean Desert. The ridge opposite was alive with […]
– by Fred Schlomka I received a phone call at 7am this morning from the USA, from a Jewish family seeking a tour of the West Bank. Uppermost in their minds was the notion that this should be a ‘balanced tour’. I asked what they meant by ‘balance’ and received a vague answer about giving […]
By Fred Schlomka –First published in Mondoweiss – The term ‘Occupation’ has become almost a cliché in describing Israel’s presence in the territories conquered in 1967. Within Israeli society, the word is little used anymore ( Hebrew: כיבוש). Many maps published in Israeli school textbooks no longer show the ‘Green Line’, but through various graphical techniques, […]
– by Fred Schlomka – Day 4 & 5 • 30th & 31st JanuaryAddis Ababa, Alem Tena – ZiwayTotal biked – 96km Quite a day for the first bike ride in Africa. I was driven by Sheme out of Addis Ababa to Debre Zeit, also known as Bishoftu. Apparently the name was changed after the […]
– by Fred Schlomka – – Day 2 & 3 • 28th & 29th JanuaryAddis Ababa, Ethiopia I go for dinner with a group of Rastas from Europe and Australia who are here for the Rastafarian Tour. Ethiopia is the spiritual homeland of the Rasta religion and my colleague Jos has been developing pilgrimage tours […]
– by Fred Schlomka –Day 1 & 227th & 28th JanuaryTel Aviv – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Up early and off to the airport. Sunita was a sweetheart and drove me at 5.30am. The packing had been a bit frantic the day before but I managed to do a partial dismantle of the bike and cut […]
Cody O’Rourke walking Palestinian kindergarteners to school in Hebron as part of his work with the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Green Olive Tours takes pride in being linked to field workers across Israel and Palestine – specifically those areas where we give our educational tours. It’s essential that we have a pulse of the community to […]
By Fred Schlomka – Shocking News! Green Olive Tours has dropped to number 2 on TripAdvisor, the world’s most widely read travel website. Who has beaten us? You’ll need to take a seat while you digest this. Caliber 3, an Israeli shooting range that describes itself as a “Counter Terror and Security Academy”, has taken […]
By Fred Schlomka – Green Olive Tours selected the location of the International YMCA of Jerusalem as a convenient central departure point for most of our tours. However our affiliation with the organization goes much deeper and reflects our endorsement of YMCA’s philosophy of inclusiveness in this divided city. Every morning, while waiting for their […]
by Fred Schlomka –The term ‘democracy’ is used today by so many people from different backgrounds that the word has begun to lose any definitive meaning. In particular the dichotomy between the reality of the ‘Jewish Democracy’ in Israel and the Liberal Democracies of the West seems to be diverging rapidly, resulting in a serious […]
by Fred Schlomka – My wife Sunita is leaving soon for an extended performing and teaching tour in the USA, so we decided to take a weekend off and spend some time together. For some time I had been wanting to visit the village of Al Aqaba in the north-eastern West Bank, and since they […]
Yasmin Gebara is blind from birth and lives in the village of Salem, just to the east of Nablus in the middle of the West Bank. She graduated college in 2010 with a major in English literature, and writes poetry in English which you can read at this link. Yasmin’s father was murdered in 2004 […]
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