This severe breach of trust, however, was accompanied by economic policies that better integrated Palestinian citizens into Israel’s workforce, explains Tabony, creating a peculiar equilibrium: “On the one hand, the racism is constant,” she says, and on the other hand, “we are presented with new work..…

Breaking the Silence tours leave participants under the impression that hostility between Muslims and Jews is only a recent development, something occasioned by the rise of Zionism. ... Arab hostility is not a mere product of Israeli “occupation”, as some would have it, or..…