Entries by Shannon Berndt

Palestine 101: five books and a movie with which to start a journey on learning more about Palestine/Israel

This is a purely subjective list pulled from the larger list under Educational Resources.  What might your Top 5 plus a movie be?  We invite you to join the conversation.   Ateek, Naim Stifan.  Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation (1989).  Ateek applies Liberation Theology to the present conditions of Palestinians living […]

Reflections on the 2013 US Campaign to End the Occupation’s organizing conference

EPF PIN member Newland Smith reflects on the 2013 US Campaign to End the Occupation’s organizing conference Three themes stood out for me: The meaning of “solidarity”: Sandra Tamari, a member of the US Campaign Steering Committee introduced the plenary session, “Allies, Solidarity and Anti-Racism/Bigotry Practices,” in which she stressed that solidarity work would be […]

Reading Suggestions from EPF PJN Members

Since we inaugurated PINontheGo in April, we’ve asked what you’re reading and watching and what resources you use.   Additional resources will be featured in a subsequent posting. Thanks to those who’ve contributed. Newland Smith recommends Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles.  He lifts up two essays: Kali […]

Travel Diary to Palestine: Journeys into Violence

Noura Erekat is a member of EPF PJN’s Palestine Advisory Group.  She recently co-led an Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation to Palestine/Israel.  She reflects on the experience in a report published on the Jadaliyya website on 9 July.  In Travel Diary to Palestine: Journeys into Violence, Erekat chronicles the delegation’s travels and meetings and explores her feelings […]

Book Notes: Newland Smith’s review of The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War by Avi Raz

Avi Raz is an Israeli historian who fought in some of the Arab-Israeli wars and as a journalist covered some of them. This well written book is the result of years of painstaking research in the records that had been declassified in Israeli, American, British, and United Nations archives – records documenting the events during […]

Does positive investment promote justice and peace?

On my first trip to Palestine/Israel — the equivalent of today’s witness or fact-finding trip — a US consular official said that if we didn’t get intellectual indigestion from what we saw and heard, someone had not planned the trip well.  For those of us who want to support the Palestinian community in their quest […]

Report to the 400+ Supporting VOC

[SlideDeck2 id=1440] A report to the 400 + Episcopalians who supported the Voices of Conscience statement with a Petition to Executive Council. Introduction The Steering Committee of the Palestine Justice Network provides this report of  the recent meeting of  Executive Council, February 25-27 in Linthicum, Maryland ,to the petitioners who supported the open Voices of Conscience […]

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