{"id":1029,"date":"2010-04-11T04:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:20","slug":"three-days-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2010\/04\/11\/three-days-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Days in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Simulation aims to spark dialogue<\/h3>\n<p>Olivia Natan | Phoenix Staff<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Brajtbord \u201911 said her visit to Palestine after her freshman year made a dramatic impact on her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing through the checkpoints [of the West Bank] as a privileged American, especially as a privileged Jewish American, was one of the most profound and emotional experiences of my life, and it\u2019s really something that brought me to the level of activism and the commitment to [Israeli-Palestine relations] that I have today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A leader of Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine, Brajtbord was instrumental in the planning and execution of this week\u2019s \u201cThree Days in Palestine,\u201d which featured a screening of \u201cDivine Intervention\u201d on Tuesday, a discussion forum facilitated by Assistant Dean and Director of the Intercultural Center Rafael Zapata last night, and, most notably, a simulation of an Israeli checkpoint within the West Bank which divides Israel and Palestine.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmorephoenix.com\/2010\/04\/08\/news\/simulation-aims-to-spark-dialogue\">Read the rest of the story at <em>The Phoenix<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/swarthmorephoenix.com\/assets\/2010\/04\/08\/pictures\/simulation-aims-to-spark-dialogue.3.large.jpg?1270692618\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"287\" \/>Photo Credit: Olivia Natan | Phoenix Staff<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simulation aims to spark dialogue Olivia Natan | Phoenix Staff Sarah Brajtbord \u201911 said her visit to Palestine after her freshman year made a dramatic impact on her. \u201cGoing through the checkpoints [of the West Bank] as a privileged American, especially as a privileged Jewish American, was one of the most profound and emotional experiences &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2010\/04\/11\/three-days-in-palestine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Days in Palestine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175425083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/175425083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}