We had a pretty heavy weekend. It's Sunday night, and we are exhausted! We've done so much, its been hard to process - but at lunch and dinner we've been able to get into some really interesting conversations.
We took a trip up north to Galilee and stayed over night in Nazareth. We also visted Ein Hod (a Palestinan town in Israel) and Haifa. Up until this point we were only in Jerusalum and the West Bank. We got a chance to talk to some folks who are Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. This was a huge discussion that got into the struggle of Palestinians with Israel citizenship in comparison to Palestinians living in Jerusalem or the West Bank. No, life as a Palestinian Isreali is not fair and equal. Palestinians face a huge amounts of institutional racism. To get a look at how the other side lives, we went to Haifa, and got a small glimpse of how an average israel lives(it looked like the US) For the first time i saw Asian food. More to come. So tired, but well put up some pictures.
As a side note, the amount of information that we are processing and questioning is amazing. We are getting into ideas and questioning things like Zionism, the state of Israeli, connecting the struggles from Baltimore to Palestine, US/Mexico Border wall and the Israeli WALL, are Jewish people a race, the holocaust, Palestinian resistance, Solidarity, and so much more.
- koyuki
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