The program included the following visits and meetings:

• The Ghetto Fighters' House – Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, and The Center for Humanistic Education, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot
• The remains of the destroyed 1948 village of Suhmata
• The town of Karmiel and the Bedouin enclave in it
• The town of Shaknin ( dinner and music at the freedom tent)
• Jericho and meeting with Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestine Authority
• 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
• The village Bilin and meeting with members of the village Popular Committee
• A two days Conference at Al Quds University
• The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jerusalem
• Tou of the settlements around Jerusalem
• Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp.
• Meeting with Ziad Abbas, co-director of Ibdaa Center
• Attending a dance show and dinner at the Ibdaa Center
• Hebron including the Old city and the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs.
• Visit to a Palestinian family next to the settlement of Kiryat Arba
• Nablus
• Meeting with the director of Project Hope
• Askar Refugee Camp and a new theatre there.
• The Old city of Nablus
• Meeting with Norma Mosi, deputy director of Zochrot in Tel-Aviv

An evaluation of the Summer 2008 Educational Tour by a participant:

The program 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

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