Where PJN Stands
To whom do we listen?
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
To whom do we listen?
On 13 January 2014, the Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) of The Presbyterian Church (USA) announced the release of a new resource Zionism Unsettled: A Congregational Study Guide. IPMN says the guide "examines the role of Jewish and Christian…
Churches and Divestment – How might we move forward?
A 23 January 2014 release announced that the Presbyterian Church’s Committee on Mission Responsibility through Investment found Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions ‘not in compliance with General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) policy on socially responsible investing’…
Two Episcopalians reflect on their time with Sabeel in 2013
From Loring Conant
The Ultimate Preparation for Advent -- Reflections from a Sabeel Witness Visit November 2013
I returned from my first witness trip to Israel/West Bank a week before the beginning of Advent.
The number of disturbing afterimages poses a formidable challenge for clarity and…
“We Remember This”
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…
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…
To whom do we listen: a reflection on interfaith dialogue
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. …
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…
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…
Spencer Cantrell reflects on Sabeel’s Global Young Adult Festival – Moving Mountains, Reshaping the World
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…
A New Round of Peace Talks: Are We “Hopefuls” or “Cynics”?
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 Justice…
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…
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…
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…
Letter to Archbishop Welby over remarks in the newspaper “Jewish News”
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Dear Archbishop Welby,
We write as representatives of organizations and as individuals who are deeply involved in the search for peace with justice in the Holy Land to express our deep concern over the remarks that have been attributed to you in a recent interview with the newspaper “Jewish News”.…