May 9
GUEST: Nancy Mansour,
Palestinian activist, co-founder of Existence is Resistance,
and Executive Director of Eyewitness Palestine, talks about
how local rallies can become a nationwide call for an end to
apartheid and genocide.
Eyewitnesspalestine.org
Nancy takes us to another world, one that we barely remember after a nightmare. The sounds of the drones overhead both night and day. The smells that one never forgets. She describes for us the killing fields of Gaza.
There are so many ways to escape such an experience. Our media will help us out by gradually disappearing any mention of 2.3 million Palestinians being destroyed by a slow moving genocide. Her interview was filled with verbal images that were perhaps more moving than pictures of starving children. This is the world of Eyewitness Palestine.
The organization is built on the assumption that the average person will see what apartheid looks like and will commit to ending it. And for most people, it seems to work. The people I know who come back from an Eyewitness Palestine trip are motivated from the heart. Perhaps if enough people saw what Israel is doing to the Palestine people, we would demand that our elites stop funding the carnage. Perhaps we would insist that the International Criminal Court charge Biden and Blinken with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
I notice that the New York Times has stopped covering the starving children. It prints articles about peripheral issues like the accuracy of reports on how many Israeli women were raped and murdered by Hamas, or how US colleges are influenced by billionaire Zionists. We don't see or read about the millions of children carrying around empty pots on the chance they will find something to eat. No, if the American people witnessed that, they would cry out for mercy.
