One year after the US decision to move its embassy, this delegation takes a special in depth look at the situation in Jerusalem including the effects of displacement and gentrification on the Holy City. The group also tours many other areas in Palestine/Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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This delegation is Eyewitness Palestine's 68th, successfully exposing more than 1,300 people to the daily realities facing Palestinians in their quest for justice.
We believe in the power of eyewitness experience and transformation. Given the opportunity to speak directly with Palestinians and Israelis, delegates return to the United States better informed, more energized, and with a deeper understanding of the possibilities for true justice in the Middle East.
On this delegation we’ve learned so much that’s reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984. The most Orwellian expression is: “Present Absentees” that refers to Palestinians who fled from their homes during the peak hostilities in late 1947 and 1948 but moved only a short distance to a safer Palestinian village or town. Israel counted them as absentees who could not return to their homes, even though they remained within the border of the new state of Israel.
Read MoreOn Friday, I had the chance to visit the Lutheran Church of Redeemer courtyard in Jerusalem. My extended family— 17 people— were given shelter there, crammed into one room, when they fled from the Musrara neighborhood in what became West Jerusalem in 1948. In 2017 I saw my Mom’s former family home nearby. This time I couldn’t find it.
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