Heart of a Nation arranges for Jewish Agency Israel Campus Fellows to visit Museum of the Palestinian People

By Ron Kampeas
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
April 6, 2023

“The tour was the brainchild of Jonathan Kessler who now helms Heart of a Nation, which organizes people-to-people encounters between young Israelis, Palestinians and Americans…

“‘For the first time, maybe in my lifetime, you’ve got young people from all three societies who simultaneously recognize that their politics is stuck and they desperately want to push forward into a better place,’he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 

“He worries that unless they move beyond their ‘narrow communal silos,’ young Jews in the United States “will further distance themselves from Israel, young Israelis will turn their back on the pursuit of peace with the Palestinians, and young Palestinians will give up on coexistence with Israel.”

“Recommending a tour of the museum, he said, was a way to make that happen. The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Campus Israel Fellows, which brought the emissaries to Washington, D.C., asked him to recommend museum tours for the group, and he suggested the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Museum of African American History and this tiny, barely known institution.”

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نحن أمريكيون وإسرائيليون وفلسطينيون نبني ونكوّن روابط من أجل التعلم والتفكير والمشاركة معًا حتى نشجع الحلول التقدمية بشأن القضايا التي تهمنا جميعًا.