On Saturday
April 14th, a peaceful bike ride surveying the springtime beauty of the Jordan Valley was met with the ugly presence of the Israeli military, which resorted violence against bike riders who attempted to continue their casual journey up Route 90 in an act to challenge the apartheid policy Israel enforces in the
Jordan Valley, and for that matter, the rest of the occupied West Bank.
The policy by which Israel treats
the Jordan Valley is in fact parallel to the disregard and brute violence
witnessed on Saturday, which left one
Palestinian woman and two international activists from Denmark and Holland injured
after being struck in the head with an M-16 rifle. While international
press is requesting the name and details of the internationals harmed, it seems
as though the Palestinian woman injured is left as a mere afterthought of
Israel’s smearing handprint on the dignity and rights of Palestinians. The
treatment of Palestinians at the whim of Israel cannot go ignored, and
humanization is only true when it is upheld across the board.
