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Reading for Peace in Israel and Palestine
Denver area book discussions to learn more about peacemaking in Israel and Palestine
Tuesday, July 6, 7:00 p.m., at the home of Jan Miller, 1250 Humboldt Street, #501 in Denver (on the west side of Cheesman Park; free parking in a lot across the street).
Witness in Palestine, by Anna Baltzer--the subtitle, A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories describes the scope of the book.
Granddaughter of a holocaust survivor, Anna Baltzer had first visited Israel on a Birthright Israel trip as a young woman. On that all-expenses-paid trip, the Israel she saw was a tiny peace-seeking democracy surrounded by Jew-hating neighbors. Teaching in Ankara, Turkey, she traveled around the Middle East and learned a different story. So, in 2003 she visited the Palestinian Territories to discover for herself the realities of life for Palestinians. What she discovered changed her life. Over the next four years, she returned for a total of eight months, living and working with Israelis and Palestinians to understand the reality and to work to change what she saw happening behind Israel's security wall. She monitored checkpoints, marched in demonstrations against house demolitions and land confiscation and destruction of olive trees for the building of the wall. She got to know families in many of the West Bank villages being surrounded by Israeli settlements. Her book tells their stories and her photos introduce us to the people living under Israeli occupation.
Come join us for the conversation! Contact Jan Miller by email for more information.
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