As dangerous to white nationalists in the US

April 8

GUEST: Nada El-Eryan, board member for the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival and Managing Director of Eyewitness Palestine, a nonprofit that provides educational tours of the Holy Land, talks about Palestinian feminism and the emerging concept of human rights for all people.

Eyewitness Palestine: Journeys for Justice 

Nada does virtual tours of the West Bank now, using the ubiquitous Zoom platform. I wonder if this method will bring these visits to the occupied territory open to many more people. 

And that would be a very good thing because the training one gets with Eyewitness is so important to understanding what Nada calls the "collective" campaign for human rights. Progressives can't be for human rights in one nation or geographical area and against human rights for another. The best known example of that would be PEP (progressive except for Palestine). Some Americans are all for Black liberation from racism and violence, but then find themselves making excuses for Israel's apartheid system of oppression in the Holy Land.

Eyewitness isn't an "in your face" type of organization. It reminds me of what I have read about the early Freedom Riders in the South. They weren't radicals, but their ideas were, that all people deserve fairness and justice. And that they shouldn't be kept off busses for the color of their skin. 

There is a moral force in that stance that is as dangerous to white Christian nationalists in the US as it is to Jewish nationalists in the Holy Land. This concept separates what is best in the human experience from what is worst. There is no contest. 

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."  MLK