{"id":659,"date":"2017-09-13T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/?p=659\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:34:28","slug":"dialogue-with-residents-of-umm-al-fahm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/dialogue-with-residents-of-umm-al-fahm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue with Residents of Umm Al Fahm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This week we organised a special meeting of Jews and Arabs at the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm. We called this meeting &#8220;Jews and Arabs Speak Peace&#8221;<br \/>\nThe meeting was held at the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery.<br \/>\nWe heard from a female Arab Israeli student who was suspected of being a terrorist during a bus journey. She spoke with tears in her eyes about the humiliation she suffered in front of dozens of passengers. Tag Meir activists sympathised with her and gave her a bouquet of f<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">lowers.<br \/>\nThe participants talked about the feelings of fear of the other, which is what leads to racism and hatred.<br \/>\nWe talked about the importance of getting to know people of all ages, of the silent majority who want to live in peace and tranquility, the various efforts to advance a common future, the minority that forces extremist discourse, and our powerful forces.<br \/>\nThank you to the Tag Meir activists who participated, to the residents of Umm al-Fahm, to the art gallery about the hospitality, to Imam Sheikh Jamil Mahajna, to the head of the Ma&#8217;aleh Gilboa Yeshiva, Rabbi David Bigman, for the words of support, to the Deputy Mayor of Umm al-Fahm Hanna and MK Yusef Jabarin, who spoke of hope at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"slider-container about\">\n<div class=\"slider\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tag-1.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"71\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21728351_1682342201799251_3266504590856864300_n-1.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"75\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21728078_1682342261799245_1776904205268728247_n.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"75\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slider-dots\">\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we organised a special meeting of Jews and Arabs at the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm. We called this meeting &#8220;Jews and Arabs Speak Peace&#8221; The meeting was held at the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery. We heard from a female Arab Israeli student who was suspected of being a terrorist during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tag-meir.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}