FFIPP Summer 2010 Educational Tours/Delegations to Palestine/Israel
For international faculty, students, educators and artists.
Dates: July 4 - July 10.
At this point FFIPP does not accept additional applications for the summer 2010 tour/delegation.
A person can join a tour on a daily basis or for a whole tour of 5 days. The precise itinerary will be determined at a later date. The itinerary of the summer 2010 program will be similar to past tours/delegations. See reports below.
Cost: $130 per day.
FFIPP will provide transportation, guides, make hotel reservations, and arrange all meetings. Airfare, food and hotel is NOT covered by FFIPP.
Application process:
1) Apply by downloading application and send it with a $30 application fee to ffipp-usa, P.O.Box 2091, Amherst MA 01004. You can also email your application and use the donate button at the FFIPP website to pay the application fee. Also sign and send or fax the Waiver and Agreement .
For more information, call FFIPP-USA, 413-253-0676, Fax 413-253-0676 or email us at: info@ffipp.org
Past delegations visited: Birzeit University , Haifa University, Al-Najah University, Tel-Aviv University, Al-Quds University, Ben Gurion University, Arab-American University in Jenin, Hebrew University, Hebron University, Nazareth, Akka, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jaffa, Lod, Shaknin, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot, al-Ghabisiyya, Suhmata, Dheisheh refugee camp, Jewish Settlements in the West Bank, Bil’in, the separation wall, Jericho.
Discussions and meetings with academics and leaders. Past delegations met with:
• Eyad el-Sarraj, Gaza Community Mental Health Program
• Rochama Marton, Physician for Human Rights
• Juliano Mer Khamis, Freedom Theatre
• Ziad Abbas, Ibdaa, Dheisheh Refugee Camp
• Saleh Abdel Jawad, Birzeit University
• Moshe Zuckerman, Tel Aviv University
• Salim Tamari, Birzeit University
• Sari Bashi, Gisha
• Salem Jubran, writer, editor, journalist
• Norma Mosi, Zochrot
• Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter
• Isaac Ben Israel, Tel-Aviv University
• Azmi Beshara, Knesset member
• Yuval Steinitz, Knesset member
• Yassar Arafat
• Saeb Erekat, Palestine Authority
• Ami Ayalon, Kenesset member
• Uri Avnery, former Kenesset member
• Mustafa Barghouthi
• Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al Quds University in East Jerusalem
• Hanan Ashrawi
• Jad Issac, ARIJ
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
What participants of past FFIPP educational tours say about their experiences:
I cannot in my lifetime tell you how meaningful to me were my days with all the brave Israelis and Palestinians I met and heard. What a deepening experience for me. I have been studying the Middle East for half a century, living in it for 20 years, but this experience in Israel and the West Bank really
made a profound impression. I will have much rich material to inform my lectures on the struggle in my modern Middle East course next spring semester.
John Livingston, William Paterson University, Professor of History. Summer 2009 delegation.
The program in summer 2008 was outstanding in its variety of experiences and
places visited and hosts, who gave explanations. High points were the
conference at AL QUDS University, the tour of Hebron, Nabuls and Bilin.
It was a remarkable, unique and moving experience, an emotional roller
coaster at times. We were often faced with a kind of cognitive
dissonance. Although we all knew and could anticipate the information
we were given by various guides, government officials, activists in
peace groups, I think none of us could have fully imagined what we
experienced by being there. The courage and persistence of the
activists for peace in both Palestinian and Israeli peace groups is
inspiring and the only real hope to counter the contradictions and
dilemmas we encountered.
Reinhard Mayer, Professor of German Wheaton College, Norton, MA
"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."
Neil Hertz, English and humanities professor emeritus, Johns
Hopkins University.
Palestinian students learn photography near Hebron with FFIPP 2009 delegation member, Donna Bassin
Itinerary of the FFIPP Educational Tour to Palestine/Israel, Summer 2009
Day 1, June 28, 2009
* Hebrew university meeting with Daphna Golan, Professor of Law at Hebrew University, and Coordinator, Minerva Center for Human Rights Internship Program. Dudy Tzfati a peace activist who teaches Genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Students who work at the Minerva Center for Human Rights. Yonathan Mizrachi, an archaeologist and a founder of the archaeological tour From Shiloah to Silwan: An Alternative Archaeological Tour of Ancient Jerusalem
* Yad Vashem, the Jewish people's living memorial to the Holocaust, and the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust
*Ayn Karim, and the destroyed village of Suba
Day 2, June 29, 2009
*A Meeting with Jeff Halper, Director of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ICAHD
* Tour of East Jerusalem
* Visit to the settlement of Maleh Edomim
* Anata to the house of Salim Shawamreh, a Palestinian whose house has been demolished four times by the Israeli authorities and who is still unable to inhabit his rebuilt home
* The village of Bilin
Day 3, June 30, 2009
* The city Sakhnin
* The destroyed village of Kafr Bir'im
* The city of Akka
* A Meeting in Haifa with representatives from the youth organization Baladna, the feminist organization Isha L'Isha and a Palestinian student leader from Haifa University
Day 4, July1, 2009
* Hebron and a tour of the city by members of the Temporary International Presence in the city of Hebron (TIPH), who later explained their presence and work
* A meeting with Dr. Jad Isaac the Director General of the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) in Bethlehem
* Dheisheh refugee camp
Day 5, July2, 2009
* Tour of the Separation Wall
* Ramallah. A Meeting with representatives from the Palestinian Hydrology Group and the Palestinian Working Women Society
FFIPP 2009 Educational Tour/Delegation in Hebron
Itinerary of the FFIPP Educational Tour to Palestine/Israel, Summer 2008
Day 1, June 30, 2008
Visit to The Ghetto Fighters' House – Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, and The Center for Humanistic Education, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot
Visit to the remains of the destroyed 1948 village of Suhmata
Visit to the town of Karmiel and the Bedouin enclave in it
Visit to the town of Shaknin ( dinner and music at the freedom tent)
Sleep in Kibbutz Gan Shemuel
Day 2, July 1, 2008
Visit to Jericho and meeting with Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestine Authority
Visit to Ramallah and meetings with:
Dr. Luay Shabaneh, President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Khaleda Jarar, member of the Palestinian National Assembly.
Dr Allam Jarrar, of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society
Visit to the village Bilin and meeting with members of the village Popular Committee
Sleep in Jerusalem
Day 3, 4, July 2,3, 2008
Conference at Al Quds University
First Day
The Gaza Blockade:
Eyad el-Sarraj, President of FFIPP-International, Founder and Director of Gaza Community Mental Health Program
The Architecture of Occupation:
Eyal Weizman, University of London
The Sociocide of the Palestinian Society:
Saleh Abdel Jawad, Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University
Solidarity and Political Activity:
Salim Tamari, director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies, Board Member of FFIPP, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Birzeit University
Gaza Video Conference
Issam Younis, Director of Al Mizan Center for Human Rights, Gaza
Dr. Albert Ahela, Health provider, Gaza
Second Day
Moderator: Sari Bashi, Director of Gisha
European Union Policy on the Palestine/Israel:
Eric Rouleau, former bureau editor of Middle East for Le Monde, former France Ambassador to Morocco and Tunisia
US Policy in the Middle East - Challenging Pessimism:
Richard Falk, FFIPP Advisory Board, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Phyllis Bennis, Institute of Policy Studies
Sleep in Jerusalem
Day 5, July 4, 2008
Visit to The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jerusalem
Tour of the settlements around Jerusalem with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
Sleep in Jerusalem
Day 6, July 5, 2008
Visit to Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp.
Meeting with Ziad Abbas, co-director of Ibdaa Center
Attending a dance show and dinner at the Ibdaa Center
Sleep in Bethlehem
Day 7, July 6, 2008
Visit to Hebron including the Old city and the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs.
Visit a Palestinian family next to the settlement of Kiryat Arba
Sleep in Bethlehem
Day 8, July 7, 2008
Visit to the city Nablus
Meeting with the director of Project Hope
Visit to Askar Refugee Camp and a new theatre there.
Visit to the Old city of Nablus
Sleep in Jerusalem
Day 9, July 8, 2008
Meeting with Norma Mosi, deputy director of Zochrot in Tel-Aviv
