Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide: An Invitation to Read and Study Members of the EPF PJN education work group recently spent five months reviewing the congregational study guide Zionism Unsettled, published by the Presbyterians’ Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN). Through biweekly conference calls, the group held lengthy discussions of its content, the controversy surrounding […]
October 2014 Seven weeks of war between Israel and Hamas has left Gaza in ruins. “The scale of damage…is unprecedented since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967,” according to a UN report, which continues, “All governorates in Gaza witnessed extensive aerial bombardment, naval shelling and artillery fire, resulting in the widespread loss […]
One of the newest and fastest-growing campaigns within the BDS movement is “Block the Boat,” a campaign targeting the ports across the United States where the Israeli-owned shipping line, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, docks to unload its goods. As the new EPF Palestine Justice Network LA chapter in Southern California launches, some of its members […]
EPF PJN member Harry Gunkel reflects on health care in Palestine. The assault and invasion of Gaza this summer, the third in five years, put Gaza into the headlines once again. But more often than not in American media reports, the ‘story’ was not the enduring occupation and siege of the West Bank and Gaza […]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The 4 September 2014 PJNontheGo featured ‘Talking Across Faith Lines: Do We Really Hear One Another and Who Sets the Standards for the Conversation?’ It featured David Good’s reflection on being accused of being anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic and raised up Bruce Shipman’s letter to the editor of the NYT responding to […]
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship is celebrating its 75th birthday by sponsoring The Stones Cry Out: Responding to the Occupation of Palestine, a conference in Los Angeles on November 7-8. Featured speakers include Dr. Jonathan Kuttab, a human rights lawyer in Israel and Palestine, Rev. Sandra Olewine, former United Methodist Liaison to Jerusalem, and Shakeel Syed, […]
Editor’s Note: Desmond Tutu’s ‘My plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine’ published in Haaretz on 14 August 2014 prompted David Good to reflect on the work of the Tree of Life Educational Fund for which he serves as chair of the Board of Directors. This article reminds me of […]
Editor’s note: On 26 August news of an open-ended ceasefire erupted. Earlier in the week, EPF PIN member Peggy Bronson shared an update from Usama Nicola, Citizens’ Diplomacy Project Coordinator at Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem, and Usama graciously consented to share it with the PIN community. Many of you have likely […]
The Protest (really a mobile vigil) Against Violence in Palestine started slowly as you would expect during the dog days of August. We milled around at the Barclays Center Sports-Big Event complex waiting for the go-ahead at 4 PM. That loitering was put to good use since we made new friends, entertained a sampling of […]
On Wednesday 16 July, I was one of five people entering Boeing headquarters in Chicago at five that afternoon to conduct an act of civil disobedience. Why Boeing and why civil disobedience? For the past two years the Anti-War Committee – Chicago has been going after Boeing for their role as the second largest arms […]
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The frightening aerial war being waged by Israel against Gaza brings many recriminations and much finger pointing. Who started this? What incident set it off? The kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank? Or the earlier murders of two Palestinian teens involving […]
Editor’s note: Harry Gunkel, EPF PIN member and a convener for its education work group, reflects. Harry served as a missioner with The Episcopal Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and taught at BU Nursing College in Qubeiba, spending extended periods of time on the ground in Palestine/Israel. Those of us who follow […]