At the Common Ground News Service Hayat Alvi Aziz gives a little hope by sharing his experiences not just at Djerba but also reactions from his students when he showed a video about this small Tunisian island. Here are some relevant excerpt from the article:
Djerba successfully provides a precedent for rejecting hatred, prejudice, animosities and distrust in the Middle East…. We find Muslims and Jews living and working side-by-side in the village of Hara Kabira in Djerba. “It’s easy here in Djerba. This has been going on for a long time,” says one Jewish resident in the documentary. “This didn’t start yesterday.” … In fact, they have lived together for hundreds of years. Djerba’s Jews constitute a tiny minority, reportedly the oldest Jewish settlement in the world, possibly dating as far back as 2,500 years. They live alongside a substantial Muslim majority, yet the village is described as an “ideal model for coexistence.
The picture shows the Hara Sghira synagogue.
