Call and Response
This is beautitful. A group of children from Jenin refugee camp playing music for a group of elderly Holocaust survivors. The act of doing something kind and creating something beautiful for someone else can be extremely empowering for young people, and doing it for a group considered ‘the other’ in a conflict has an amazing power to heal wounds and show the best of the moral traditions of a people.
This is crap. Palestinian political organizations condemn the concert, basically because they think any act of peaceful expression related to Israelis is subversive and must be validating the Occupation. The director of the camp’s Popular Committee, stated that the concert was an attempt to use the children to “destroy the Palestinian national spirit in the camp.â€Â I have no words to respond to that statment. The man’s idiocy and knee-jerk hatred speak for themselves.
These children from Jenin said a great deal about the human spirit with this concert, which I believe is a far more effective criticsm of any Occupation than the crap coming from the politicians.
