GUEST: Eitan Bronstein, founder of the NGO Zochrot, co-author of "Nakba" in Hebrew, and co-creator of the De-Colonizer website, talks about his personal journey of decolonizing his identity as an Israeli.
Eitan's research fit perfectly into one of the themes in this program: the privilege of doing the right thing.
Eitan is an Israeli who insists that his people acknowledge how the the Jewish state was born, by ethnic cleansing.
Will our country ever acknowledge the ethnic cleansing and genocide visited on our Native American populations? Or the centuries of slavery and Jim Crow that forced Black people into brutalized and marginalized lives? If we are to be free, of course, we must be honest. Liars are never free from the fear of being exposed, and the American Empire is the most fearful nation on earth.
So we. like Eitan, will continue speaking truth to power. Only by crafting a common narrative can there be peace. And let's face it, our future is either going to be peace or annihilation.