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 (TSS) steeped in his 50-year experience of […]
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 in the […]
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 in the […]
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 in the […]
My First Pilgrimage of Companionship to Jerusalem, Gaza and Palestine: Some Wonderings We have been here for three days and my spirit is on overload. The sights and sounds and smells that surround me heighten all of my senses as I pass through the Damascus Gate into old Jerusalem for the first time. Holy sites, […]
A STATEMENT by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship's Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN) on Action by Executive Council re Resolution B016 (2018): Adopt Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Action on Israel/Palestine. The Steering Committee of EPF PIN commends Executive Council for positive action on three Resolutions implementing the mandate from the 79th General Convention expressed in […]
October 15, 2019 Jerusalem The olive trees that line its streets are filled with ripening olives. The distinctive tan limestone used in the Old City wall and many other buildings produces a certain soft uniformity to the architecture dating back centuries. And the food is amazing. Lots of hummus, baba ganoush, mujadura, za’atar, tabbouleh. It’s […]
IN JERUSALEM “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Wendell Berry Being in Jerusalem is living in the prosaic Best of Times/Worst of Times. The anticipation of a thrilling spiritual experience quickly becomes a troubling moral struggle. Jerusalem is surely one of the world's most singular places, a […]
EPF PIN member Tom Foster who convenes the local organizing work group for PIN, traveled with Eyewitness Palestine last year. He reflects on the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library and we also share a link to an interview with its founder Vivien Sansour. The Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library is based on the property of a beautiful, […]
This fall, Palestine advocates in Rochester, NY, will host the eighth annual Witness Palestine Film Festival. From October 14 – November 9, the festival will present five films and will end with a Celebrate Palestine event. The first of the films will be shown at St John Fisher College. The other four will be screened […]
EPF PIN member Tom Foster, who convenes PIN’s local organizing work group, was part of an Eyewitness Palestine delegation to Palestine/Israel last year. He writes here about one of the sites visited and the group with whom they met, Zochrot. 600 LOCALITIES We visited the site of Lifta, one of over 500 localities from which Palestinians were […]
EPF PIN member Harry Gunkel writes about his time in Alabama and makes connections about what standing witness means in our work for Palestine. The humid, sweltering August heat of Black Belt Alabama enfolded us all as we stood at the former site of Varner’s Cash Store in Hayneville. On this spot on another August […]
