Listen "Providing Protective Presence in Masafer Yatta: One Man's Story of Activism in Palestine"
Episode Synopsis
Send us a textMasafer Yatta is a collection of hamlets in the Occupied West Bank that Israel has long tried to wrest from Palestinians living there. The intensifying struggle there is the topic of the recent Oscar-winning documenary "No Other Land." Robert Suberi is an American who has been going to Masafer Yatta since 2019 to document human rights abuses and to be a protective presence for Palestinians under threat of attack by Israeli soldiers and state-backed settlers. Suberi talks about his evolution from ardent Zionist to a critic of the Israeli state committed to solidarity with the besieged residents of Masafer Yatta. Tthere are many groups providing protective presence in Palestine; Suberi discusses what they do and his own positive experience with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence.
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