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Voices of Palestinian & Israeli nonviolence with Jon Stewart

Patch Adams protesting at a check point
Patch Adams protesting at a check point

Last week two of my close friends Erin and Casper Adson were tear gassed while taking part in a nonviolent protest in Palestine. The same week I was in Perth bringing together Muslim, Jewish and Christian schools together to talk about how we can “love our neighbour” while we are in conflict with them.  Thanks to Brian McLaren for sharing these two videos from Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” introducing the mainstream to the often over looked nonviolence movement for justice for Palestinian and Israel.

The videos can be found here:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-28-2009/exclusive—-anna-baltzer—-mustafa-barghouti-extended-interview-pt—1

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-28-2009/exclusive—-anna-baltzer—-mustafa-barghouti-extended-interview-pt—2

One of the students from the Jewish students said to me, “Just talking to each other rather than about each other, makes it eaiser to hear each other.” So, so, true.


Picture of user Jarrod McKenna
Perth, WA
Australia

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