April 13
GUEST: Cassandra Dixon, long time peace and justice activist who spends a month each year in occupied Palestine, protecting school children from settler violence, talks about the physical attack and hospitalization that she endured recently.
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Ms. Dixon has had a long career of being a human rights advocate. She knew that her work was dangerous, especially in the hyper racist state that Israel has become. Still she was shocked when a settler attacked her from behind, sending her to the hospital with a dangerous head wound.
She had been attacked before, and hit by rocks as she walked Palestinian children to school. The settlers are the very dregs of society, much like the early followers of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. Many of the settlers are not even religious. Their righteous anger is all about taking more land from the indigenous Palestinians. It is greed combined with self interest, a powerful mix that challenges the very concept of what human beings can be.
When will Americans heed Cassandra Dixon's message? The billions we send to this apartheid state puts blood on all our hands.
