The last thing I expected to discover in a land defined by settlements, segregation, intimidation and a lack of forgiveness – by Peter Marks – I traveled to Israel and Palestine for the first time at age 36, but I’ve dreamed of visiting it for decades. While I do not consider myself a particularly religious […]
– by Yahav Zohar – A group of young men walk down a rocky slope. They are wearing white, their sabbath clothes, moving in loose formation towards a shepherd and a grazing herd of sheep, or a farmer tending his olive trees. As they come closer, some of them cover their faces with makeshift masks […]
The tiny villages of the Masafer Yatta region in the South Hebron Hills are only an hour’s drive from Jerusalem or an hour and a half from Tel Aviv, but traveling here one seems to be going back in time. Here, at the edge of the desert, farmers eek out a meager living growing barley […]
– by Alexander Jones, Green Olive VP – Let’s begin with a big ‘thank you’, a giant ‘toda’ and a huge ‘shoukran’. Our Kickstarter campaign to fund the second film in our Homeland Insecurity series was an overwhelming success and with your support, we raised over US$11000. Keeping in mind there are a lot of […]
Our ‘Meet the Settlers’ tour takes visitors to the same settlement New York Times documentary maker Iris Zaki visited. Join one of our tours to understand this issue better, just like she did.
– by Alex Jones – Welcome to the first in a series of film reviews which will highlight some of the most interesting issues facing our region. Watching movies and reading books about somewhere you visited is a great way to reminisce and avoid forgetting the places you went, the things you saw and the […]
First published by Al Jezeera, July 2015 In late July 2015, an arson attack on a family home in the Palestinian village of Duma, in the West Bank, resulted in the killing of three members of the Dawabshe family, the youngest of whom, Ali, was only 18 months old. The firebombing also caused seven-year-old Ahmed […]
