Ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak (and listen) differently to each other

FOR Executive Director Ariel Gold talks with Raja G. Khouri and Jeffrey J. Wilkinson, the authors of a groundbreaking book “The Wall Between."

Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA Executive Director Ariel Gold in conversation with Raja G. Khouri and Jeffrey J. Wilkinson, the authors of a groundbreaking book “The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know About Each Other” that offers concrete ways for Jews and Palestinians to speak (and listen) differently to each other.

“The Wall Between” is a book about the wall that exists between Jewish and Palestinian communities in the Diaspora. Distrust, enmity, and hate are common currencies. They manifest at university campuses, schools and school boards, at political events, on social media, and in academic circles. For Jews, Israel must exist; for Palestinians, the historic injustice being committed since 1948 must be reversed. Neither wants to know why the other cannot budge on these issues. The wall is up.

The book is both realistic and hopeful — a guide for anyone who is open to new possibilities within the Israel-Palestine discourse in the West.

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