Voices from Israel/Palestine: Rabbis for Human Rights
About a month ago I was in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, on what one might call an ‘awareness visit’ but was, if I’m honest, political tourism. The group I was with visited a number of Christian and non-Christian human rights, peace, passive resistance and Palestinian solidarity groups (as well as just one ideological Jewish settler) and heard them speak about the situation in Israel/Palestine, what they are doing about it and what we can do to help.
Over the next few months I will be putting up audio and and written material from that trip. This is the first one, a talk by a man whose views I don’t entirely agree with, but who is clearly a good (if not great) man, working for justice and peace.
His name is Arik Ascherman and he is Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights, an organisation that many right-wing supporters of Israel wish did not exist. Here, he addresses our group about who they are and why they do what they do. Inspiring stuff.
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