This week,
hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv
as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative.
Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and indeed human history is a chronicle of change
— and the Welcome to Palestine project follows that tradition.
No change happens without challenging the status quo.
Few people reflect even on modern history to understand how we achieved things like civil rights in the US,
enlightenment in Europe,
ending slavery,
[ apart from that slavery still currently imposed on everyone by the Federal reserve ]
giving women the right to vote
and establishing democracies around the world.
All these changes from an unjust situation (the status quo) required the agency of mass movement …