Invitation to join the FFIPP Delegations/tours from Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Prof. Yehuda Elkana
Dear Colleague,
The Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-International (FFIPP-I) is an
International network of faculty, with an affiliated international
student network, whose objectives are an end to the occupation and a
just peace between Israel and Palestine. The networks include faculty
and students from universities in America, Europe, Palestine and
Israel.
Among the efforts to achieve its objectives, FFIPP-I has organized
seven fact-finding delegations of faculty and students to
Israel/Palestine. Almost unanimously, the participants’ experience was
‘‘extraordinary’’, ‘‘once-in-a-lifetime experience’’, ‘‘lifechanging’’.
All, including the experts among the participants, said they had
learned a tremendous amount from the trip.
The objectives of FFIPP’s delegations, however, are not only to educate
the educators and students, but also to encourage the participants to
become more involved in future activities, and to improve coordination
among existing academic groups. The critical situation in
Israel/Palestine and the region led us to call on faculty and students
worldwide to join the next delegation. We want a large delegation that
will attract attention to the increasingly difficult situation of the
Palestinians under occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, and facilitate
coordination for larger future campaigns.
We hope you will join the next delegation, and urge your colleagues to join too.
Sincerely,
Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, President FFIPP- International
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Co-chair Advisory Board FFIPPI
Prof. Yehuda Elkana, Co-chair Advisory Board FFIPPI
Invitation to join the delegation from Noam Chomsky
Dear Colleague,
FFIPP delegations to Israel/Palestine have helped educating many
educators about the real situation in Palestine/Israel and, perhaps
more importantly, they have served as a mobilizing vehicle for an
academia-centered international movement to end the occupation. I
strongly urge you to join the next delegation.’’
-Noam Chomsky
FFIPP Summer Educational Tour to Palestine/Israel, June 30 - July 9, 2008
The program will include:
Meetings with Palestinian and Israeli Peace activists, community leaders, local faculty and students, a tour of settlements around Jerusalem, a tour of Jafa, visits to Ramallah and Bilin, to the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem, the Alternative Information Center, Dheisheh refugee camp and the Ibdaa center, a meeting with the Arab Association for Human Rights in Nazareth, visit to Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot and to the remains of the 48 village al-Ghabisiyya.
Price: $600, not including airfare, accommodations and food.
FFIPP will arrange transportation in Israel/Palestine, meetings for the program, and assist in making hotel reservations.
For more information, call FFIPP-USA, 413-256-0349 or email us at:ffippusa@comcast.net
Application
Invitation to join a FFIPP educational tour from Neil Hertz, English and humanities professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University.
"The FFIPP tour early in July 2007 was a rich, wonderfully organized introduction to the present situation in Israel/Palestine, remarkable for the number of places and people we got to see and listen to in a brief five days. Whether we were walking around the old Palestinian cultural center in Yafo, or touring the refugee camp of Deheisha, outside Bethlehem, or touring the edges of Jerusalem to see the extent of various settlements' encroachment on territory in the West Bank and the obstacles to circulation introduced by the Wall, or being given an overview of the relation between (Jewish-Israeli) Upper Nazareth and (Arab-Israeli) Lower Nazareth, or listening to presentations by informed Israelis and Arabs, I was struck by the energy and clarity of our guides, as well as by the coherence of the picture of the situation on the ground that emerged. It's one thing to read about that situation in news reports or books and quite a nother to see it vividly unfolded before your eyes. I would recommend the tour to any interested American faculty and students."