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Welcome to our online campaign, Give Peace A Chance, a Channel M Production. We are dedicated to examining the prospects for Peace & Reconciliation between Arabs & Israelis and Palestinians & Israelis. Together we will learn more about efforts taking place at a grassroots level to engage and understand each side. Did you know there are tens of Peace Movements engaging both Israeli's and Palestinians in peace-building efforts to build bridges and assist them to get to know each other better? Engagement with "the other side" is crucial to achieving peaceful co-existence.
In this episode we discuss the growing vibrancy of the Women Wage Peace movement within the context of the latest round of fire exchanged between Hamas and Israel. Other talking points include the latest warning from the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that there could be more violence if the "Sheikh Jarrah issues" are not resolved.
How do Israeli's and Arabs cope in the aftermath of the latest war, riots, and other incidents of violence? There are many community engagements taking place which helps resident heal and strengthen ties with each other. A Pre-school community in Haifa hosted an event last Friday, on the beach exchanging dialogue.
On the 19th of May 2021, hundreds of women joined hands in a Peace Chain event in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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In this episode, we chat with Rabbi Ron Kronish, an inter-religious peacebuilder, writer, author, and blogger. Our discussion is based on his recent blog in the Times of Israel, "Who's to blame for the 11-day war?"
248 Palestinians were killed, around 100 women and children. Reports indicate that 250 buildings in Gaza were bombed including hospitals, banks, and key infrastructure posts, civilian homes too. 13 people were killed in Israel following the firing of around 4000 rockets, of which 1900 were intercepted by the Dome missile.
We asked Rabbi Kronish if this war could've been avoided?
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Rwanda is regarded as a miracle today.
This East African country is hardly a dot on the map anymore sharing a history of colonization and war, with so many other countries.
The spectacular recovery from the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, is not just a page-turner in their history but an inspiring example to the rest of the world of what can be achieved and what is truly possible when a commitment and pledge is made by the survivors to restore hope, economic prosperity, and sustainable peaceful co-existence.
No other country in the world today has a large number of perpetrators of the genocide living in such close proximity to the victim's families.
In this episode, we remember the victims and pay tribute to the resilience and strength of the survivors. Meet Freddy Mutanguha, a survivor of the genocide who lost both parents, four sisters, and 80 members of his family at the hands of the Interahamwe, Hutu extremists who mobilised quickly after the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habriyamana. The Interahamwe showed no mercy and went on a mass killing spree to wipe out the Tutsis.
"The moments Rwandans chose the road of reconciliation the survivors and people in the country started the healing process. That was really the starting point. The moment we chose reconciliation and peace is the moment that economic growth started. So when you make the right choice you are going in the right direction. What I realized as well is that people who make the choice to hate and to commit genocide, I have never seen any genocide that doesn't have survivors, that means you are a failure because you did not succeed to wipe out a whole ethnic group, that means you are a failure to yourself. And the consequences are equal or even bigger than what you caused. Both sides suffer from the consequences of what you just did and they suffer from the bad choice that you made of hate.
But I have never seen any consequences and bad consequences of making the choice for peace. You may not see it, you may make great sacrifices for peace to go beyond your emotions and feelings, but you are sure that the next generations will enjoy it! This is really the best way of putting it Making the choice for peace is making a choice for all generations to come." Freddy Mutanguha, Survivor, Kigali Genocide Memorial.
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In this episode, we continue with our discussion on the importance of promoting both Holocaust & Nakba education, just after the Easter holidays in 2021.
Hyam Tannous shares with us her emotional experience at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland and how it changed her as a person. She also explains why in Israel talking about the Nakba and teaching the lessons learned and pain experienced during the 1948 catastrophe is avoided.
"It is sad that our children don't learn about the Nakba, and I think that it comes from a very emotional history, and both sides feel for the land. I think the logic is, around how can they teach the children that the state of Israel was built on the catastrophe of another nation? They want to give the impression that Israel belongs to the Jewish people. They want to introduce that there were no Arabs living there." Hyam Tannous, Peace Activist, Women Wage Peace.
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Just in time for Human Rights Day in South Africa which is 21st March 2021.
This is an extra special season of Give Peace A Chance as in this season we are spreading messages of the importance of holocaust and genocide education.
We have more on the way!
It is important to learn from the past.
Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.
Hate leads to prejudice and disastrous consequences.
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre is truly doing amazing work and engaging in dialogue necessary to present day challenges.
Here is a virtual tour of the Museum at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Learn more about their "Butterfly project" and how you can make a difference. Visit their website www.jhbholocaust.co.za
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We continue with our discussion on the importance of Holocaust & Genocide education.
In Part Two of Episode 2, we discuss why it's so complex and highly politicized to teach Holocaust education in Palestine. Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi shares his own personal journey when visiting the death camps in Poland as well as the severe repercussions he faced for taking a group of 25 Palestinian students to Auschwitz.
"Before visiting Auschwitz for the first time, I did not pay attention to the holocaust. It was part of Jewish history, that we never opened that page. Visiting Auschwitz was my first encounter with the holocaust. I was so shocked. The environment there was so cold. It made us think how these people were living." Prof. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Founder & Executive Director, Wasatia.
Tali Nates the Founder & Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre explains what antisemitism is and adds some valuable insights about peace and war.
"If we can teach more about peace and if we can look more at the pain of the other, if we can put ourselves inside others shoes, and walk a little bit in those shoes, I think that will be so much more beneficial than learning about war and war and war. " Tali Nates, Founder & Director, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.
There are some powerful and valuable insights shared in this episode so be sure to tune in.
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In this episode, we explore and question the importance of teaching Holocaust & Genocide education. Two guests with different backgrounds in unique geographical locations, Johannesburg & East Jerusalem who are dedicated to teaching holocaust and genocide education joins us to provide two distinct frames of references.
"I came from a family of holocaust survivors. My parents were from Poland. My mother was a refugee, she managed to escape but my father suffered in four different concentration camps but his life and the life of his brother were saved by a German, a member of the Nazi party, Oscar Schindler, who today is very famous because of the film Schindlers list. The way I grew up with a very liberal father who use to say, "people have choices, you cannot put people in boxes, because Oscar Schindler was a German, a member of the Nazi party but he saved my life, so I am alive because of this German." Tali Nates, Founder & Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre.
"Holocaust denial is against the truth and I believe that we should face the truth and there was a tragic event that took place and we should not deny it so as a sign of respect for the truth we should learn about it. Also, it is showing respect for the victims of the holocaust and as a result, this is a sign of humanity. Also, we must learn from genocide to avoid more genocides but sadly it still makes news. Also we don't know how many genocides were avoided because of genocide education." Prof. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Founder & Executive Director of Wasatia in East Jerusalem.
We also discuss the nature of why holocaust denialism is prevalent in Palestine.
Welcome to Episode 1 of Season 2 of our Campaign, Give Peace A Chance!
It's wonderful to kickstart our campaign once again, with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Palestinian Scholar, Peace Activist, and Founder and Executive Director of Wasatia in East Jerusalem, Palestine.
If you missed Season 1, be sure to catch up and watch our earlier discussions with Professor Dajani on Episodes 1, 2, 3 & 4.
In this episode, we discuss the Abraham Accords, the Palestinian Elections as well as some of the challenges the peace camps are facing in both Israel and Palestine.
"In the Wasatia vision we are talking about a future where everybody lives together, it means temperance, moderation, simplicity, and creativity and tolerance, and being in the middle, centrist, and as a result, if you look at our world today, you will tend to find that those who are the extremist they are a minority and yet they make a big noise. The majority are a silent majority but there comes a time, my theory is that there comes a time when things blow up, so basically we want to avoid that, we would like to build an environment where we will bring the best out of people, rather than the worst out of people, and as a result, we don’t want to see explosions, volcanoes. I have a theory about this, it is tap water and a glass. If you have a glass and a tap, and it drops one drop at a time, you don’t see it being filled up, and then one moment it overpours, this is what we don’t want to happen here, we don’t want people, whether Israeli’s and whether Palestinians, to actually be filled with hate and anger, and that it will explode because we don’t want violence and anger and massacres, and war and conflict.
This is something that we are working to avoid, and that is why we would like to reform the society from within and try to promote within that society a moderate culture, and we hope that through dialogue, between both, the Muslim Community, the Christian Community, and the Jewish Community, that this dialogue will bring about the best in the people, and make them more and more able to reach peace. Peace has so far been very elusive because we don’t know much about each and at the same time, we hate each other. We imagine that the other is the enemy while the other might be a friend and we never tested that, that’s why we feel it's very important that we build people to people programs, that we talk to each other, that we have dialogue among each other, and from this dialogue, we can build trust.
Trust is very important for future relations between the two people. And if you look at the situation we tend to find that people behave as religious teachers, not as what they think religion is, but what really religious is, because I think that here, we have spillover between politics and religion. And so we think that people exploit politics in order to reach their goals, their personal goals, At the same time, recently in the last few decades, we tend to find that people had ideological wars especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But now we find that they are becoming more religious wars. And what we are hoping is to make religion work, for the benefit of the people, or rather they use religion or what they think is religion in order to incite among the people. And I think that this is partly the problem. I cannot make a political peace without having a religious peace. And I cannot invite someone to my house if my sons think that God is against them or they don’t believe in God, or that they are infidels or that they are non-believers, I have to clear this, clarify this in the minds of my child, that the other is not the enemy but rather he is a friend." Prof. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Founder Wasatia.
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Episode 14 - Love, religion & Personal Development
In a world with a wide spectrum of views, beliefs, conflicts, prejudice, and polarised viewpoints, it is of paramount importance to search for the one defining characteristic of human existence that is unifying and by all means available to each one of us to explore and put to good use on the planet.
I believe that the unifying force is love. However, true love is also a state of celestial mystery as Human Behaviour Expert, Dr. John Demartini explains in part two of our conversation on the conflict.
"The terrestrial world as Aristotle said, is the world of trial. The celestial world is a world of harmony. We have to expand our awareness and have a celestial perspective, holding the globe in our hands, to see things from the overview effect and not be trapped in our immediate reactions. Getting trapped in terrestrial history prevents us from honoring the celestial mysteries. The real celestial mystery is the mystery of love and how everything is helping people to get to that realization."
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This is Part One of my conversation with Dr. John Demartini on the conflict & the Demartini Method.
December 30, 2020
There's no better way to end the year than with Dr. John Demartini in conversation with Nausheena about the conflict, sharing his insight, philosophy, and powerful methodology in personal transformation.
"Because we have a spectrum of values across the world, and particularly even in Israel and Palestine, you have a spectrum of beliefs. Each of those is going to have different interpretations, of what that accord represents (the Abraham Accords). To think though there is no advantage from that I think it would be an extreme opposition because there is no doubt that if we start having communication, dialogue transportation, exchange, economics, or whatever, that at least is a step in communication.
It may not be the ideal, and it may feel that it is not the ideal that some of the more extreme Palestinians are searching for, but it is a step. I think it's easy to go, it's not what I wanted, so I am angry, but the reality is that it is a step, and with that will come somebody that is more adaptable and then there'll be another step and it's not everything we want, but that's okay, its a step. So I don't see it as good or evil. I see it as another incremental step and usually incremental steps are more useful than drastic overhauls.
I think that there is progress being made. I am sure there are other hidden motives, there are other narcissistic motives sitting in there. There's no doubt. You don't ever get one-sidedness, but overall I think the relationship between Israeli's and Arab derivatives I think is a step. I think that the youth and the individuals that are already cooperative in the region see it as a step. The radical, more extremists who want certain things, they may see it as a slap. But at the same time, it is progress.
Any change that is seeing dialogue and not alternating monologues with bias is a step. But I think it is expected that you will have some reaction. Any change is going to cause a reaction. But at the same time, I think that there are some steps forward here. I don't think that anyone of us knows all the underlying components here. I think that will emerge over time." John Demartini, Human Behaviour Expert.
Part Two of our interview with David Gerbi, Jewish Refugee, Psychologist, Author - 23 December 2020I met Qaddafi when he visited Rome in June 2009 and invited the Libyan Jewish community to meet with him on Shabbat, in a large tent he had erected in a city park. Scheduling the meeting for that day signaled to us that his goal was mostly focused on public relations. While most members of the community could not attend because it was the Sabbath, I was there in my traditional Libyan robe with a Jewish star at my neck.
Speaking in Italian, I pressed him on opening the Dar Bishi Synagogue. While I had little to hope for, given his detached manner and empty promises, I was pleased to discover that the meeting somehow helped me start shedding my fears and gain back some of the dignity I had felt I lost as a refugee: Qaddafi could no longer harm me, and my Libyan, Jewish, and Italian identities gave me strength.
During my last trip to Libya in the spring of 2011, I joined the anti-Qaddafi rebels by volunteering again at the Benghazi Psychiatric Hospital, where I trained the rebels to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I was in the mountains north of Tripoli a few months later, working on PTSD with Amazigh Berbers. Like most Libyans, their suffering resulted not only from the current conflict but also from 42 years of calamities caused by the dictatorship. What they desperately needed was to overcome their fears and find that they could hope again — hope for a better life in freedom.
After Tripoli was liberated, I once again tried cleaning up the Dar Bishi Synagogue. Even though I had received permission from the National Transitional Council (NTC) and the local government to undertake this work, a mob gathered, shouting that "there is no place for Jews in Libya" and carrying signs in both Arabic and Hebrew to make sure, I suppose, that I got the message. Once again, I had to leave. But this time I left with dignity, not fear: I left on the day of my choice and on my own terms. I wanted to signal to the NTC that I would work with it to restore calm and that it needed to work with me. And in so doing, I found more strength.
Despite all these challenges, I still have hope. I will continue to do what I can so that the Jewish presence in Libya is not forgotten and Jews, as well as all minorities, can reclaim their rightful place in Libya. I know that this will take time. Tripoli’s new leadership faces enormous challenges, such as building the essential elements of government and civil life and bridging ethnic and regional divides. But part of this effort must include preserving and protecting Libya’s few remaining Jewish heritage sites. I also urge the NTC and similar bodies to recognize and meet with the WOLJ as the legitimate representative of the Libyan Jewish community.
Hope often needs help. The international community must also act. The United States and its NATO allies played a pivotal role in helping the Libyan people achieve freedom, and now they can help steer the new government toward a path of justice and reconciliation. These countries must send a message to the NTC and other Libyan leaders that they can demonstrate their seriousness about democracy and human rights by breaking with Libya’s past and welcoming back Jews and other minorities. It is a win-win proposition for all interested in Libya’s development and success.
A peaceful, stable Libya is most likely to be realized if it is pluralistic, open, and tolerant. Libya must become a free, just, and democratic country, grounded in the rule of law, in which all of Libya’s minorities — including those Jews forced to flee — are welcomed back into the Libyan family. We can make a difference at this critical juncture, before the cement dries, by making a mark for democracy, human rights, and religious pluralism, so that Libya becomes a model for reconciliation and tolerance - David Gerbi 2012
In conversation with David Gerbi, Jewish Refugee, Psychologist, Author.
23 December 2020
Thousands of Jews fled Libya after it was granted independence and membership in the Arab League in 1951. After the Six-Day War in 1967, the Jewish population was again subjected to pogroms in which many were killed, and many more injured, sparking a near-total exodus that left fewer than 100 Jews in Libya.
When Muammar Gaddafi came to power in 1969, all Jewish property was confiscated and all debts to Jews cancelled.
"The vast majority of Jews from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq,Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Syria and Yemen have faced persecution and violence, have fled from their homes and left the countries where they lived for centuries, even millennia, solely because of their Jewish identity. They migrated to Israel, as well as to North and South America and Europe, where they sought to preserve their rich heritage and unique history, bringing with them the traditions, liturgy, customs and cuisine. Unfortunately, this is a tragic and little known chapter of modern Jewish history. I am one of those 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran who fled Libya, with the family and the whole community after the last pogrom in Tripoli and Benghazi in June 1967. (photo 1 Gerbi family). In Libya, we grew up under the monarchy of King Idris who, after the pogrom of 5 June, told us that he could no longer guarantee our safety as a Jewish minority and then helped us escape from Libya which had become extremely hostile to Jews thanks also to the propaganda of the Nasser-related movement of Egypt. After the Six-Day War of 5 June 1967 between Israel and the Arab countries, the Egyptian radio incited hatred against Jews and encouraged people to eliminate them. It was thus that the enraged mass got to the streets in search of the Jews holed up in the house in the dark and in the utmost silence. They started burning houses and shops and killing many Jewish families. The UN, which has limited itself to recognizing Palestinian refugees must recognize Jewish refugees from Arab countries because, like them, we have suffered too. Communities in Syria, Libya, Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran and others have almost all been wiped out after centuries of relatively peaceful coexistence. Unfortunately, we are the forgotten refugees and our stories will not be heard in the European Union meetings nor we will ever see, exhibited in the corridors of the United Nations, photographic exhibitions of all these communities, as well as, among the thousands of resolutions discussed and approved in the last seventy years since the United Nations, the names of our communities, our families, our dear ancestors, and our collective confiscated and destroyed capital will not be found anywhere.
At the UN there is no special day dedicated to our communities or to the memory of us, 850,000 Jewish refugees, expelled from Arab countries and Iran after the creation of the state of Israel. Unfortunately, we are forgotten refugees because we have not made enough noise. The reason for our silence is to have invested the time, energy, and effort to rebuild a new life honestly without disturbing anyone." David Gerbi, Injustice does not go into prescription, December 2020
9 December 2020
Meet Rafah Mismar, Palestinian Peace Activist & Journalist, a brave an inspiring woman dedicated to building peace between both sides. Her participation in peace activism spans a decade.
Her primary focus is the protection of the rights of women and children involved in the conflict.
Rafah holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights.
"It’s not easy, you have all this conflict, within yourself, within your families, within the community, but the only way to spread this message is just to believe in what you are doing and I totally agree that Palestine and Israel should be side by side as a neighbour.
We need to have a Palestinian state side by side with the Israeli State and at the same time, we need to have good relations with the neighbours. The Issue is not easy, but it is one of the main goals in my life, that I should do what I am doing because I believe in myself as a Peace Activist. As a Palestinian, I should have the right to live in freedom in my own State and I believe in my friends on the Israeli side who are activists, who are journalists, who are lawyers, who are human rights defenders who believe that Israel should finish and end this occupation and we should have a very special relationship because we share everything here.
We share the land, we share the air, we share the radio waves, the TV waves. We share everything. We share the water, the electricity, so why don’t we have a normal relationship as two states that are neighbours? And I appreciate the role of my friends who are believing in peace in Israel, who are attacked by the Right Wing in Israel because they are asking for ending the occupation. So we are supporting each other because we both need hope, and we need help, so we are doing very tough work, at the same time it is the peace work. As you know working for peace is harder than working for war.” Rafah Mismar, Palestinian Peace Activist & Journalist
9 December 2020
Meet Rabbi Ron Kronish, an Interreligious Peace-Builder, Educator, Writer, and Blogger.
He writes frequently for the Times of Israel, and is passionate about peace, and addresses radicalism in both Israel and Palestine quite frankly bringing sobriety back to the understanding of the conflict.
Here is an extract from one of his blogs:
"The people of Israel, myself included, will be happy to see an American administration that is genuinely interested in pursuing peace between Israel and her Palestinian neighbors. We look forward to an administration that will restore ties with the Palestinians, to put the peace process back on track in real ways, an administration that will be pro-peace, pro-Israel, and pro-Palestinian. Not one that has a settler activist as an American ambassador. Not one that is totally lopsided in advocating for only one side of the conflict, nor one that is busy with creating business deals with minor countries in the region and falsely naming them “peace” deals. We are already witnessing the first positive step in this direction as the Palestinian government has decided today to renew security cooperation with Israel in anticipation of cooperation with the new American administration." The Times of Israel 19 November 2020
Rabbi Kronish is also a writer. He is well known for his book, The Other Peace Process which is available on Amazon:
"This book describes the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue, education, and action in Israel and Palestine in the context of the political peace process as well as the peace-building processes and programs, by drawing on personal experiences and encounters of more than twenty-five years. Through memorable incidents and inspirational stories, the book offers insights into the obstacles and challenges, as well as the achievements and successes of interreligious dialogue and action programs. In addition, it provides a practical model of interreligious dialogue for people around the world and leaves the reader with a message of hope for the future."
To find out more about his contribution to Peacebuilding, please visit his website: www.ronkronish.com
Episode 8 - UN Day of Solidarity for Palestine 02 December 2020
UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to explore every opening to “restore hope” for a two-state solution.
The important call was made on the 29th of November 2020, to observe the day in 1947 when the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution partitioning Palestine into an Arab State and a Jewish State.
Join me in a discussion with Yasmin Rubin Cooper, a Peace Activist from the Women Wage Peace Movement.
Episode 8 - UN Day of Solidarity for Palestine ending Illegal Settlements, the demolition of Palestinian homes, and the violence between both sides?
Episode 7 State of the Heart - 25 November 2020
In this week's episode of our online campaign, we speak to David Kramer about his book, State of the Heart.
In, State of the Heart, David Kramer takes us on a journey of Israel's humanitarian efforts that began more than 70 years ago and continues unabated throughout the world today.
In this extraordinary and inspiring collection of over 50 stories, personal interviews, and photographs, David describes the benevolence and altruism that characterizes the nation of Israel. He engages the reader with narratives that identify and provide a glimpse into the compassionate soul of the Israeli people.
Featured in these accounts are descriptions of life-saving technology and innovation, helping the disabled and teens at risk, managing food collection and distribution programs for the disadvantaged, immigrant absorption and elder care, infertility programs, women's empowerment, and human rights, rescuing victims in the aftermath of natural disasters worldwide, developing and providing life-saving solutions to those in developing nations, cleaning up and protecting the environment, and so much more.
State of the Heart captures the unique level of concern, care, and uncompromising sense of mission, undertaken by Israelis, within Israel, and around the globe.
David Kramer is an educator, author, and social entrepreneur. He has spent the past ten years helping Israeli and global non-profit organizations tell their story through a social start-up he founded in Israel. David spends much of his time meeting with tour groups in Israel, connecting them to the reality of life in Israel.
Episode 6 - Abraham Accords with Dr. Nir Boms - 18 November 2020
Today, the 18th November 2020, as we approach the end of this year we were reminded of the significance of the Abraham Accords for the Middle East. Bahrain's Foreign minister landed in Israel today to enter into tripartite discussions a willingness to forge economic agreements to bring the region to life after decades of anti-normalization policy with Israel.
Did the Palestinians miss out on an opportunity for peace and economic cooperation? How will the Biden Administration impact on other Arab nations seeking normalization with Israel via the Abraham Accords?
We talk Peace, Normalisation & Conflict.
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11 November 2020
Hyam Tannous is an Arab Christian woman who worked as a senior supervisor in counseling and guidance therapy from 1997-2017. She has a master's degree in guidance and counseling from Haifa university. She was in charge of 400 counselors in the north of Israel who worked under her guidance. She trained Jewish and Arab counselors on several subjects in psychology and therapy in order that they could help schools, teachers, parents, and pupils to fulfill their maximum potentials and be in their wellness from a point of psychological awareness.
Since(2000-2016) she was head of a non-violence committee at all of the north schools (Jewish and Arabs schools) and planned several programs for schools to get better positive climates and emotional dialogues, including lectures and workshops. She gave several lectures on emotional dialogues, conflict resolution, sexual education, class consultation’ school coordination and program managing in more than 200 schools in the north.
Her love, belief, and concern both for the Palestinians, and the Jewish state of Israel brought her to be an active member of promoting dialogues between the Jewish and Palestinian people including the Palestinian authority.
Several activities took place at the Golda Meir center with the assistance of the Ministry of education, 300 Palestinian women from the west bank took part in six seminars for two years in order to bring light and hope to both sides.
In 2004 she was one of the organizers of ” From memory to peace” an Arab initiative to feel the pain of their neighbors where preparations and Seminars were held for 500 (Arabs, Jews, French ) who took a journey to Auschwitz concentrations camps, to go to the pain of the Jewish people, to know them better and to release both people from the hatred and the fear from each other, and to create a new reality, and to give life to the Middle East( a film was made on the initiative " היינו שם
In 2007 she was a member of a team who wrote the book “Care- full
Listening and conversations, Creating Dialogue between Members of conflicting Multicultural groups.
The book was written with an approach to the narrative therapy, a theory developed by Michel White.
She trained more than 500 hundred teachers and counselors with the narrative Therapy who trained pupils and parents at schools.
She was at 4 conferences in the world, giving lectures, workshops in the Narrative therapy.
In Conversation with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi - 21 June 2020
Welcome back to our campaign "Give Peace A Chance!"
This is Part Four of our conversation with Palestinian Scholar & Founder of the Wasatia Movement, a moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine.
In this episode, we talk about Professor Dajani's experiences in South Africa & the important role South Africa can play in this conflict.
" Export to us the rainbow of reconciliation that Nelson Mandela has left you as a heritage. This is a very rich heritage and South Africa must carry this heritage to the world and so this is what I expect of you as South Africans,
In Conversation with Prof Mohammed Dajani Daoudi Episode 3 - 18 July 2020
Welcome Back to our campaign "Give Peace a Chance!"
In this episode with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi we discuss the implications of Israel's decision to annex the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
"The U.S. as part of the Trump plan did call for annexation but it is not the same amount as the Israeli appetite wants to annex." Prof Dajani
Thank you for joining us and remember our best asset is our humanity in the midst of conflict and COVID 19.
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In Conversation with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi Part Two 15 July 2020
Welcome back to our campaign, "Give Peace a Chance!"
Watch episode two of our conversation with Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, Palestinian Scholar, Peace Activist & Founder of the Wasitia Movement, a moderate Islamic movement in the Middle East, which is slowly gaining momentum in other parts of the world!
In this episode, we continue discussing extremism and how it manifests in both Palestine & Israel.
Dajani also explains how the extreme voices dominate over the more moderate Muslims who are much larger in number in the world.
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In July 2020 we kicked off our campaign with Professor Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi, a Palestinian Scholar & Founder of Wasatia in Jerusalem.
"I was a revolutionary, I am still a revolutionary, but I am a revolutionary for peace. Before I was a revolutionary for war, now I am a revolutionary for peace. There comes a time when I was very angry in my life, very bitter, it was us or them, because my family, my conflict and my people were in 1948 subjected to a very brutal experience, and there was a lot of anger and bitterness. We did survive in terms of persistence, We survived to keep our identity and then we depended on the Arabs to help us liberate Palestine, and then in 1967 the June war proved that the Arabs were not up to the responsibility so the Palestinians took it upon themselves to liberate Palestine by armed struggle and for a long period of time I believed in that and was part of that resistance movement but yet also I went through a period of going to the United States studying there, I had two PHD’s there, which gave me a lot of time to think and mellow – I was forbidden from returning to Israel and Palestine between 1967 and 1993, so when I came back my personal experiences helped me shift from being angry from wanting to revenge to wanting to co-exist through personal experiences which awakened me to the humanity in the other.
I think being able to see the other in terms of the human essence for the other is very important so I stopped seeing Israel as one entity, but I saw Israel as several entities, there is the good, there is the bad, there are those who are for peace and those who are against peace, and so that is why I felt the need to co-operate, with the peace camp in order to achieve peace for all and address extremism, radicalism that prevail within this conflict, in order to bring an end to this conflict."