Israel Police cancel school tour of Hebron with Breaking the Silence

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Decision comes hours after Education Ministry says it would allow students to visit Hebron on Sunday and meet with members of group that collects testimony from soldiers who have served in the West Bank.

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"Israel Police cancelled a government program to allow high school students to tour Hebron with Breaking the Silence on Sunday, after pressure from right-wing settler groups.

The decision came hours after Haaretz revealed that the Education Ministry would allow students from a Jerusalem high school to visit Hebron on Sunday and meet with members of Breaking the Silence, a group that collects testimony from soldiers who have served in the West Bank.

The program would have marked the first time the Education Ministry has granted a school permission to tour Hebron with Breaking the Silence, which says it seeks to "raise awareness about the reality in the territories and the moral cost of controlling a civilian population."

Students from the school - the Hebrew University Secondary School, better known as Leyada – were to be accompanied not only by their teachers, but also by the Education Ministry's supervisor for the school and deputy director for the district.

The program was meant to be part of an effort to expose students to both sides of the sociopolitical spectrum.

Speaking to Army Radio, a Breaking the Silence spokesperson said that the meeting was cancelled over "pressure and the inability of Hebron police to protect us from settler violence."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-cancel-school-tour-of-hebron-with-breaking-the-silence-1.409797

[pelsar]

1. yes the hebron settlers would have "gone nuts"

but its ok, they still should have gone, even at the cost of the rocks thrown....i suspect quite a few of those soldiers served in hebron..its a real eye opener