Demand To Review Aid Has Roiled Jewish Relations Former President Jimmy Carter commended a letter from Christian leaders to Congress calling for an investigation of Israel for human rights violations that could lead to a suspension of military aid. “Like these church leaders, The Carter Center has long been concerned about Israel’s disregard for stated […]
Dear Bishops: I thought this would interest you regarding the letter that was signed by the 15 Christian leaders to the Congress. They are indeed to be commended on this initiative. While the Lutheran Presiding Bishop has signed it, it is surprising to note that Episcopal Presiding Bishop did not. "Not in line with Episcopal […]
Christian leaders cannot be cowed into silence over Israel's abuses of human rights Eric Yoffie's criticism of the Protestant churches' letter to Congress is misplaced: The price of 'interfaith dialogue' cannot be silenced by Christian leaders on Israel’s human rights violations, evidence of which I saw firsthand in a recent visit to the West Bank. […]
An Open Letter to the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori From the Palestine Israel Network of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship Dear Bishop Katharine: We write as fellow Episcopalians who share your deep interest in “a just and peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict” as stated in your letter to the two major political candidates for […]
To the IDF soldiers who were at Sabra and Shatila, September 2012 will mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. In 1982, the first day of Rosh Hashanah coincided with the final hours of that horrific event. This year, the first day of the Jewish New […]
A Statement of Support for Sabeel As rabbis and people of faith, we stand in solidarity with the work of Sabeel. Palestinian Christian liberation theologians such as Canon Naim Ateek of Sabeel challenge Jews and Christians to rethink our relationship to the Holy Land and each other on the basis of a universal standard of […]
September 6, 2012 Dear Sabeel Conference Endorser, The Friends of Sabeel, Albuquerque, want to thank you for your sponsorship of this important conference. We are grateful for your commitment to the goals of the conference, which are to bring together people of many faiths, perspectives and experiences to discuss issues of human rights in Palestine, […]
Brian J. Grieves All ten dioceses that considered this resolution adopted it. We believe we have this broad grassroots support because it is a thoughtful and even modest resolution. We deliberately wanted a resolution that would unify the Convention while, at the same time, recognize that our Church has engaged the pursuit of justice for […]
Message from Said Aïlabouni I was the lucky one in my family because I was born in 1950, two years after it all happened. In 1948, my family lost everything they owned (homes, possessions, property) and ended up being internally displaced from Tiberias to Nazareth, where I was later born. The family story is long. […]
Judith Leder has done us the enormous favor of reviewing and summarizing Peter Beinart's important work, The Crisis of Zionism. There are so many books to be read on many of our lists that this summary may either convince you to read the book or lead you to think you have gotten the the essence […]
To whom do we listen? A reflection on divestment in South Africa and in Palestine by Leon Spencer To whom do we listen? That was a critical ethical question when the anti-apartheid movement within South Africa, including church leadership, called for economic sanctions and divestment. It is a critical one now in the face of […]
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 […]
