Where PJN Stands

SILENCING PALESTINIAN VOICES MUST STOP!

September 27, 2020

On Wednesday, September 23rd, the internet meeting platform company Zoom refused to allow San Francisco State University professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa from airing their scheduled classroom presentation entitled Whose Narratives?: Gender, Justice, and Resistance. Zionist and pro-Israel…

Domination or Liberation: Christian Zionism or the Jesus Movement?

August 12, 2020

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13 August 2020 We invited EPF PIN member Cliff Cutler to follow up on FOSNA’s #CounterCUFI: Invest in Justice campaign which EPF PIN endorsed. He reviews the tenets of Christian Zionism and sets out how we might take next steps in countering CUFI. Domination or Liberation: Christian Zionism or…

Save the Date: An Online Film Salon: Roadmap to Apartheid

August 5, 2020

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Save the Date: 13 September 3PM ET VFHL Online Film Salon “Roadmap to Apartheid” Hosted by Voices From the Holy Land and EPF-PIN The film “Roadmap to Apartheid” graphically asserts that the Israeli system of total military, economic and social control over the lives of Palestinians…

Defend Free Speech and the Right to Boycott: A Webinar

May 15, 2020

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DEFEND FREE SPEECH & THE RIGHT TO BOYCOTT PLEASE JOIN THE MAY 19 WEBINAR OFFERED BY THE PEACE & JUSTICE COMMITTEE OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CHICAGO On November 23, 2019 at the annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, delegates approved by unanimous voice vote Resolution G-182,…

Voices for Justice: BDS May Soon Have Company 14 May 2020

May 13, 2020

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15 May is Nakba Day. It’s been 72 years and there is still no justice in the land. Many say the two-state solution is long dead. Others say to move ahead with annexation and then there will be one apartheid state and workers for justice can move towards a one-state solution EPF PIN member Steve…

We Are the Body of Christ

April 11, 2020

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EPf PIN member Kathy Christison wrote this Holy Week reflection. This first appeared in the EPF email sent on Good Friday 10 April 2020. We Are the Body of Christ On a Sunday in Gaza at the start of Lent, Israeli snipers on the other side of the border fence shot a young Palestinian man named Mohammed…

Behind the Israeli Blockade: Reflections on a Medical Delegation to Gaza [pre-COVID-19]

April 7, 2020

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EPF PIN member Tom Foster traveled to Gaza in early March. One can extrapolate from his report what might be the effects of COVID-19 so long as the blockade stays in place. In early March, I was privileged to join a ten-person medical delegation to Gaza organized by the Washington state chapter of…

Voices for Justice: A Journeyman’s Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine

March 11, 2020

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EPF PIN member The Rev’d E. Clifford (Cliff) Cutler traveled in Israel/Palestine last year and wrote this reflection of his time on the ground. I retired in May 2019 and took a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from Sunday, November 3 to the 16, 2019. It was a time to reflect on “retirement” which…

Rashid Khalidi Steps Up His Game

February 18, 2020

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EPF PJN member Steve France reports on a program featuring Rashid Khalidi discussing his new book. A version of this article appeared on Mondoweiss earlier this week. There was an urgency about Rashid Khalidi when the dean of Palestinian-American historians addressed a jam-packed crowd at the prestigious…

Palestinian-Native American-Israeli Tempest in Small-Town Teapot

February 12, 2020

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A Reflection from EPF PIN Member Kathy Christison A propaganda war centering on indigenous rights—involving Native American solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against Israeli oppression—has lately been raging on public walls and local newspaper columns in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although Santa…

EPF/PJN Reacts to the Trump Administration’s “Peace to Prosperity” Plan

January 31, 2020

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As an organization dedicated to working for true justice and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis, emphasizing political and human rights for Palestinians, the Palestine Justice Network of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF/PJN) condemns virtually every aspect of the US plan for resolving the Palestine-Israel…

EPF’s Palestine Justice Network: Our Focus in 2019 – the Year in Review

January 29, 2020

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2019 saw the third delegation in four years to the West Bank and Gaza led by members of EPF's Palestine Justice Network. Through these trips, many members have been able to see firsthand the consequences of settler colonialism, which has helped to inform our work. By going on the ground in Israel and…

A New Voice from the Grassroots of the South Hebron Hills

January 8, 2020

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Cody O’Rourke was about 25 back in Michigan when a friend at the Church of the Brethren shared about his recent stint in Hebron with Christian Peacemaker Teams – “getting in the way,” as CPT likes to say, of IDF soldiers harshly detaining children on their way to school. That was 2005 and O’Rourke…

Ian Lustick’s “Paradigm Lost”: The End of a Zionist Dream

January 1, 2020

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EPF PIN member Steve France reports on a book talk. A large, excited crowd came to political scientist Ian Lustick’s December book talk at the Middle East Institute in Washington. His new book, “Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality” gave an autopsy of the Two-State Solution…

On Pilgrimage 6

November 25, 2019

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One who journeys without being changed is a nomad. One who changes without going on a journey is a chameleon. One who journeys and is transformed by that journey is a pilgrim. --Mark Nepo The EPF PIN-led delegation to Palestine has completed its time there. All the pilgrims have returned to their homes…