Stop the Show, But Continue with the Education
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“Our work is in the field of education, teaching and research. We study the Occupation, analyze what it is doing to people on both sides of the border, and discover instances of social injustice (inside Israel proper as well). Those of us who are also activists are working on the creation of a different reality: a reality without Occupation, and without infringements of human and civil rights.
“Therefore, we must go anywhere and talk with anyone, even if it is really very hard for them to listen to what we have to say and for us to listen to what they have to say, even if they express anger and resentment, and we feel anger and resentment, even if they do not respond politely to what we have to say, and we have to struggle to respond to them in a polite manner. We have to go anywhere and talk with anyone in order to spread our knowledge, our insights, our understandings and our experience in peace building and elimination of social injustices.
“We do not have the privilege to say: “I won’t go there and talk to them.” As opposed to the Israeli artists, our ’show’ must go on….”
Author: Julia Chaitin, Ph.D., professor in the Dept. of Social Work - Sapir Academic College, Israel
Published in: Huntington News Network (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/)
Date: September 1, 2010
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