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Editor’s note: EPF PIN’s education work group and friends were in Gaza 27-29 April. Harry Gunkel reflects on one day trip.
"I am so proud to be Palestinian"
"Saed" is speaking. He is 23 years old, married, and is driving us to some project sites we are visiting in Gaza. Saed's English is very…
On the Ground in Palestine/Israel: Personal Reflections from Members of EPF PJN’s Education Work Group and Friends
The delegation is wrapping up its time in Palestine/Israel. Here are some reflections from two members of the group. Look for more after their return to the US.
Arrival: I lived in Ramallah for three years and it feels wonderful to be "home". Everything seems much the same. But that is not a good thing…
EPF PJN offers an alternate vision to the interfaith pilgrimage model of General Convention 2012’s Resolution B019: Standing against Injustice
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During the Christmas just past, most of us will have sung:
“Oh, little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie” or
“o come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem”
But Bethlehem…
Reflections on our trip to Gaza, December 2014
EPF PIN members and long-time workers with Sabeel Maurine and Bob Tobin, recently spent a day in Gaza. Here is their report.
Having read countless reports and viewed endless photos and YouTube videos, we thought we were prepared for what we would see on our visit to Gaza in early December 2014.…
The difference between comedy and tragedy is “then”~ Lynn W. Huber
EPF PIN member Lynn Huber was part of a Compassionate Listening delegation to Palestine/Israel earlier this year. She continues reflecting on what she experienced through current events on the ground.
Today I read an article in Time Magazine by Joe Klein entitled “Burned Books in the Holy…
Kairos Palestine Christmas Alert 2014 -from EPF PJN’s education work group
Kairos Palestine, the initiative that sprang up out of the inspirational Kairos Palestine Document of 2009, has issued its annual "Christmas Alert.”
The introduction to the Alert offers an invitation for Christians and people everywhere to get involved in five specific ways:
With this Christmas Alert,…
To whom do we listen? Voices from Oregon on Divestment
The Diocese of Oregon considered and passed this resolution on divestment at their diocesan convention the weekend of 14 November 2014:
Resolution IV: Substitute Resolution in Support of Palestinian Human Rights
RESOLVED, that the Diocese of Oregon reaffirm its call first issued at the 123rd Convention…
To whom do we listen? Voices from California on Divestment
Warren Wong sent this prayer and says, "This was the prayer offered by Scott Pomerenk, chaplain for California's General Convention deputation. Many felt this help set the tone and open hearts during our deliberation and vote last month."
Lord, your servants Abraham and Sarah showed hospitality to your…
Breaking A Generation
EPF PIN member Maurine Tobin of Maine writes about Breaking A Generation - The Israeli Occupation: Its Damage to Palestinian Children, Its Cost to Israeli Children
Sponsored by Friends of Sabeel North America and Tree of Life Educational Fund, this powerful conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on…
To whom do we listen? Voices from Hawaii on Divestment
The Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii held its diocesan convention 24-25 October 2014 at which they considered a resolution one of whose resolves stated:
recognizing our Church’s investments in certain companies may be supporting the infrastructure of the Occupation, we embrace Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s…
Statement from Palestinian Christian Leaders: Europe Must Recognize the State of Palestine
October 2014
In a Middle East region that continues to suffer from the consequences of violence, the people of Palestine continue to live under occupation and in exile. Palestinian Christians, the descendants of the first Christians, are an integral part of the Palestinian people, continue to suffer,…
Zionism Unsettled -Read the PJN education work group’s review here
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…
Call on Congress to support Gaza aid and an end to the blockade
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,…
Block the Boat – Los Angeles Supported by EPF PJN Members
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…
Health Care in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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…