Olive Co-operative Alternative Tourism

Olive Co-operative is a workers' co-op founded in 2003 to bring Palestinian fair trade goods to the UK, and arrange tourist packages to Palestine and Israel. The trips are intended to let visitors see the situation firsthand, visit important historical, political and religious sites, bond with your fellow man, and return to spread the word. Olive is serious enough that they even provide bursaries for low-income would-be travellers so long as you intend to use your experience to "work for a just peace back in the UK or in Palestine and Israel itself." [GT]

Olive Co-operative

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