These tours illuminate the relationships between the ancient and the modern layers of the city, the sacred and the profane, and the impact of the conquests and developments in the modern age. You’ll visit religious sites, and also learn about the cultural and political dynamics in the holy city.
Expect to be moved, shocked, and surprised by the discourse of our guides. In addition to their guiding, all of them are involved as volunteers in the complex task of building a just society, a country we hope our children will be proud of, and a land where all men and women will one day hold their heads up as free people. Come and share our world.
RECOMMENDED READING
Art and culture:
Arts and Identity – Betsey Coleman
A website examining Palestinian and Israeli identity through the lenses of art, artists, and art organizations.
Politics:
Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within – Dr. Uri Davis
A website examining Palestinian and Israeli identity through the lenses of art, artists, and art organizations.
Battleground – Samuel Katz
A Revisionist Zionist account of the conflict.
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History – Norman Finklelstein
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State – Jonathan Cook
Israeli Exceptionalism – M. Shahid Alam
Palestine in Pieces – Kathleen and Bill Christison
Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice – John B. Quigley
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy – John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt
The Iron Wall – Avi Shlaim
The Jewish National Fund – Walter Lehn & Dr. Uri Davis
This Time We Went Too Far – Norman Finkelstein
Save Israel! – (From an extremist right wing perspective) – Barry Chamish
Online:
Israeli Occupation Archive – Documenting the Military Occupation of Palestinian Lands
Novels:
Damascus Gate – Robert Stone
The Source – James Michener
Old New Land (Altneuland) – Theodor Hertzl
The Utopian novel of the Zionist state. In Hertzl’s vision, the Jewish state is an island of European modernity in the middle east, and the native Arabs are grateful for being brought ‘progress’
Autobiorgraphies and personal stories:
Homeland – Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians – Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour & Alice Lynd
A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
Israel, A Personal History – David Ben Gurion
Palestinian Walks – Raja Shehadeh
Impressive first hand account of the geographical changes brought on by the Occupation in the West Bank.
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide. – Susan Nathen
Education:
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education – Nurit Peled-Elhanan
History:
Israel: A History – Martin Gilbert
Jerusalem: The Biography – Simon Sebag Montefiore
O Jerusalem! – Larry Collins Dominique Lapierre
A pro-Zionist account of the birth of the state of Israel.
Academic papers & misc. articles:
As the Arabs see the Jews – His Majesty King Abdullah, The American Magazine – November, 1947
The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict – Jews for Justice in the Middle East
Selected Esseys – Ahad Ha’am
A more humanist and realist view of the Zionist project.
The law:
Palestine, Palestinians and International Law – Francis A. Boyle
Database of Israel’s Discriminatory Laws – ADALA
A project of Israel’s premier civil rights organisation
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