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This week the Palestinian community and those who stand in solidarity with them commemorate the Nakhba -- the Catastrophe -- when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in Palestine.
Edward Said spoke eloquently that the Palestinian community’s permission to narrate their own…
An Open Letter to Bishop Schori
An Open Letter to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
3 April 2012
Dear Bishop Schori,
Greetings from Jerusalem on this holy week in which we remember the passion and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Your words at the March 25th Los Angeles luncheon in which you emphatically said, invest…
2012 Christ at the Checkpoint Manifesto
The Christ at the Checkpoint Manifesto
March 5 - 9, Bethlehem, Palestine
This Statement and Manifesto were presented to the 600 conference participants at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference, March 5 - 9, 2012, Bethlehem Bible College in Bethlehem, Palestine on the last day of the conference but…
One State Conference at Harvard’s Kennedy School
Bo Fauth, one of PIN's founders and co-chair of FOSNA in New England, attended the One State Conference at Harvard's Kennedy School and wrote this review:
On the first weekend in March, students at the Harvard Kennedy School held a conference on Israel/Palestine and the One-State Solution. The conference…
Consolidating Apartheid: Current Facts on the Ground in Palestine
Judith Leder– academician, poet, potter, photographer, living in Fullerton, CA–wrote this summary of Mustafa Barghouti's recent presentation in La Mirada, CA.
On March 2, 2012, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, candidate for President of the Palestinian National Authority (2005), Nobel Peace prize nominee…
JVP Rabbinical Council’s Support for Presbyterian Selective Divestment
An Open Letter to The Presbyterian Church (USA)
from the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council
We write to you as members of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council to encourage your efforts to initiate phased selective divestment from corporations which profit from or support Israel’s occupation…
BDS: Abunimah, Woolsey and Shanzer
These articles were printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer 01/29/12
Point Counterpoint: Aim to promote human rights of the Palestinians.
By Ali Abunimah
READER FEEDBACK
I am coming to the University of Pennsylvania this week to incite violence against the State of Israel - pro-Israel groups and commentators…
God Is In This Place
by Rabbi Alissa Wise
This sermon was given Sunday, January 23, 2012 at St. Johns Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. Many thanks to St. Johns for the invitation and exceptionally warm welcome. The ideas within are in part thanks to the good thinking of JVPers who came before me and the work I did…
Jim Flowers: Of Middle Eastern Matters
Jim Flowers is the rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Mobile, Alabama. This article appeared in his parish newsletter for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. With leadership from Ed LaMonte he is also sponsoring a study group of the Episcopal edition of Steadfast Hope: The Palestinian Quest for…
‘Zionism Has Run Its Course’: Ruth Dayan and Rula Jebreal
This article first appeared in the 14 November, 2011 issue of Newsweek
Byline: Rula Jebreal
These startling words were uttered last week in Tel Aviv by 95-year-old Ruth Dayan, widow of one of Israel's founding fathers
Elegantly dressed and perfectly made up, Ruth Dayan, 95, receives me with…
Jews/Christians and Israel/Palestine: Rediscovering the Prophetic
by Rabbi Brant Rosen, Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, Evanston, IL. You may also follow Brant on his blog at http://rabbibrant.com/
Here is the sermon that I delivered yesterday (January 15, 2012) at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago. If you would like a copy of "Steadfast Hope," the…
A 2012 Epiphany message from Jim Lewis
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes.
That’s how W. H. Auden ends his Christmas Oratorio. And we know he is right because Christmas trees have been dismantled, the crèche has been stored, Santa is gone from the mall, and we…
An Evangelical Response to Mr. Gingrich
Dear Mr. Gingrich,
Warmest regards and best wishes to you and your family during this holiday season.
Allow me to remind you that recently you said in an interview with the Jewish Channel: "Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an…
The Bethlehem Call, December 13, 2011
The Bethlehem Call: Here we stand – Stand with us
To the reader: Read and interpret this text with a Kairos consciousness and gaze of prophetic anger.
Preamble
How long, O God, will they steal our livelihood? Oppress, imprison and humiliate our people? Deprive our children of their childhood? …
Rashid Khalidi’s Interview Reported in Haaretz
Published 11:55 05.12.11
Leading Palestinian intellectual: We already have a one-state solution
Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi says nobody believes firing rockets is resistance that will liberate Palestine or that talking with the U.S. will deliver a just and lasting solution.
By Chemi Shalev…