"Love your neighbor as yourself". This is the core requirement for overcoming blindness caused by hate and fear needed for peacemaking

Abstract

In May 2014, Daniel Bar-Tal, Professor for Social Psychology at the University of Tel Aviv, circulated an open letter, which is documented here. In this letter, Bar-Tal, considered one of the internationally leading political psychologists, formulated an urgent appeal to end the Israeli occupartheid policy, which not only continues Israeli injustice to the Palestinians, but also threatens to destroy Israel from within.

Keywords

• Israeli society
• democracy
• humanistic values
• occupartheid
• institutionalized discrimination