In November 2011 a group of ten women bishops of the United Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Episcopal Church traveled* for nine days to Palestine/Israel. One of the several African American bishops, after seeing and experiencing the situation in the West Bank, said, “We remember this!” […]
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 […]
In June 2012 Leon Spencer reflected on ‘to whom do we listen?’ in the context of divestment in South Africa and divestment in Palestine. This reflection expands the question to include to whom do we listen in the Jewish community and who listens to us and on what terms does the listening occur. No answers, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In between the two-to-three-second lulls and jam-ups of the assembly line of buckets winding their way up the rocky hill from the demolition site, I have just enough time to wipe my forehead and press my sunglasses back up my nose, which are perpetually taking gravity’s lead, aided by the sweat pouring down my face. […]
Once again hopes are being raised towards a negotiated settlement between Palestinians and Israelis on the foundation of the two state solution. But “cynics” are probably more common among us than “hopefuls,” given the endless trail of failed talks over several decades. The Palestine Israel Network is made up of members who are committed to […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 Israel 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 […]
The voice of a highly respected Palestinian Christian, the Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek, joined the many others asking the Presiding Bishop and Executive Council endorse the October 15 Letter to Congress from 15 American religious leaders. Feb. 19th 2013 Dear members of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, Greetings from Jerusalem! The political and […]
In anticipation of our Church's Executive Council meeting February 25 - 27, as a Palestinian American and a member of PIN's Steering Committee, Grace Saïd wrote the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem asking that he encourage Bishop Katharine and the Executive Council to sine the October 5 letter to Congress from 15 religious leaders. […]
