DEFEND FREE SPEECH & THE RIGHT TO BOYCOTT PLEASE JOIN THE MAY 19 WEBINAR OFFERED BY THE PEACE & JUSTICE COMMITTEE OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CHICAGO On November 23, 2019 at the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, delegates approved by unanimous voice vote Resolution G-182, Freedom of Speech and the Right […]
15 May is Nakba Day. It’s been 72 years and there is still no justice in the land. Many say the two-state solution is long dead. Others say to move ahead with annexation and then there will be one apartheid state and workers for justice can move towards a one-state solution EPF PIN member Steve […]
EPf PIN member Kathy Christison wrote this Holy Week reflection. This first appeared in the EPF email sent on Good Friday 10 April 2020. We Are the Body of Christ On a Sunday in Gaza at the start of Lent, Israeli snipers on the other side of the border fence shot a young Palestinian man […]
EPF PIN member Tom Foster traveled to Gaza in early March. One can extrapolate from his report what might be the effects of COVID-19 so long as the blockade stays in place. In early March, I was privileged to join a ten-person medical delegation to Gaza organized by the Washington state chapter of Physicians for Social […]
EPF PIN member The Rev’d E. Clifford (Cliff) Cutler traveled in Israel/Palestine last year and wrote this reflection of his time on the ground. I retired in May 2019 and took a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from Sunday, November 3 to the 16, 2019. It was a time to reflect on “retirement” which is a […]
EPF PJN member Steve France reports on a program featuring Rashid Khalidi discussing his new book. A version of this article appeared on Mondoweiss earlier this week. There was an urgency about Rashid Khalidi when the dean of Palestinian-American historians addressed a jam-packed crowd at the prestigious Politics & Prose bookstore in DC, Feb. 10. […]
A Reflection from EPF PIN Member Kathy Christison A propaganda war centering on indigenous rights—involving Native American solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression—has lately been raging on public walls and local newspaper columns in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although Santa Fe is a mere teapot of a city, the tempest is sizable. Not […]
As an organization dedicated to working for true justice and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis, emphasizing political and human rights for Palestinians, the Palestine Justice Network of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF/PJN) condemns virtually every aspect of the US plan for resolving the Palestine-Israel conflict issued by President Trump on January 28, 2020. This […]
2019 saw the third delegation in four years to the West Bank and Gaza led by members of EPF’s Palestine Justice Network. Through these trips, many members have been able to see firsthand the consequences of settler colonialism, which has helped to inform our work. By going on the ground in Israel and Palestine, we […]
Cody O’Rourke was about 25 back in Michigan when a friend at the Church of the Brethren shared about his recent stint in Hebron with Christian Peacemaker Teams – “getting in the way,” as CPT likes to say, of IDF soldiers harshly detaining children on their way to school. That was 2005 and O’Rourke didn’t […]
EPF PIN member Steve France reports on a book talk. A large, excited crowd came to political scientist Ian Lustick’s December book talk at the Middle East Institute in Washington. His new book, “Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality” gave an autopsy of the Two-State Solution (TSS) steeped in his 50-year experience of […]
A STATEMENT by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Palestine Justice Network (EPF PJN) on Action by Executive Council re Resolution B016 (2018): Adopt Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Action on Israel/Palestine. The Steering Committee of EPF PJN commends Executive Council for positive action on three Resolutions implementing the mandate from the 79th General Convention expressed in […]