6/14/2008

An Interesting Project by an Israeli Human Rights Organization

Posted by Andrew |


I'm always interested by the creative ways that human rights, animal rights, and other non-mainstream protest groups utilize their ingenuity and creativity to make their message known.

B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, has been a strong advocate of protecting Palestinian human rights and in seeking a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of their most recent projects, "Shooting Back" responds to Israeli aggression on Palestinian civilians by "shooting back" by recording videos of the attacks and publishing the videos on the B'Tselem website. Average Palestinian civilians in remote areas are given cheap video cameras to record attacks in their area, predominantly by settlers in isolated settlements. Check out the official website here.


See one of their videos here.

1 comments:

Bruce Kratky said...

Technology is allowing for some interesting twists in our world. The Internet can both help and destroy. It certainly destroyed the ending of a wonderful career for your cousins in gymnastics. One 250th of a second captured by a camera of a bad decission demolished a thirteen year effort worth in excess of $50,000 and stole a state championship from both. Was that just? Was that a good use of technology? Yet, Rodney King didn't deserve what he got and the police should have gotten more. I saw the clip you linked and it is so poor as to be a non-story. No evidence shown at all and certainly there was room in its interpretation to see it as an overt scam. I would, if I were that group, not allow such a poor example to stand for their program, it only demeans their effort to bring perspective and justice. It leaves their motives suspect. I have no doubt that brutality does exist initiated by the Jewish settlers, but that film clip is a no starter. I could have done better using my Sunday School class as stand ins. The search must be for the "truth." Truth should not be ambiguous, it must be clear to all. I think it can be. Faced with unabiguous truth we people will be left without excuse when we act upon what we "know" either justly or unjustly. What to do with "the truth" seems to be at the core of good human rights efforts.

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