Judaic Studies

Professor Jacobson offers a course which includes a study tour of Israel/Palestine

Class tour
Prof. Jacobson with students of UNIV 1001 at a site overlooking the skyline of Jerusalem.

Professor David Jacobson offered UNIV 1001: "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives," in Wintersession, 2017. The course included an eight-day study tour of Israel/Palestine. In this seminar students compared the radically different narratives that Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves and the world about their struggle over Palestine/Israel. During the study tour the students were based in East Jerusalem and toured Jerusalem, the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, the Jewish West Bank settlements of Efrat and Kfar Etzion, and the Israeli cities of Beersheva, Sderot, and Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Students met with a variety of speakers who expressed their understanding of the nature of the conflict, and they also met with representatives of a number of organizations dedicated to bringing together Palestinians and Israelis who are searching for a peaceful reconciliation between the two peoples.