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 story had been taken from them. This continues a series in…
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 in Palestine don’t divest from…
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 were only agreed upon and endorsed…
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 was designed to help expand the…
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 (2010), and founder the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (1979), spoke to a…
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 of the West Bank. We applaud your…
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 have contended – and, along with hundreds of…
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 with…
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 Just Peace. From the Rector: Of…
‘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 a wide smile in her Tel Aviv…
