Category: Palestine
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Book Review: The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry, By Yohanna Katanacho
By Lani Lanchester What does it mean to confess Christ in the land where he was born, crucified, and raised? In The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry, Rev. Dr. Yohanna Katanacho, theologian and Academic Dean at Nazareth Evangelical College, answers with honesty, courage, and hope. This is not a detached academic study of “Holy
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Starvation, Displacement, and Destruction: The Tragedy of Gaza
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, September 2025 The ongoing catastrophe in Gaza is not merely a conflict but a genocide devastating the Palestinian people. Since hostilities sharply escalated on October 7, 2023, Gaza has experienced the displacement of two million people. Over 65,174 martyrs have been recorded in hospitals, with a total of 166,071 injured
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Reflection on “Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1968-1993” by Zachary Foster
By Usama Nicola I begin with a heavy heart, filled with both frustration and urgency. This cycle of suffering and injustice will not end without miracles or without decisive and compassionate action from the global community. But such action will only come when more ordinary people around the world rise together, demanding that their leaders
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Gabor Mate and Sami Awad on Trauma and Peace
I follow a group called FOSNA and followed a link on the blog post to this talk by Sami Awad and Gabor Mate that I highly recommend: https://www.afcfp.org/past-events-data/from-pain-to-liberation-healing-collective-trauma
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Palestine is Disabled
Leah Lackshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: “I am not the first or last person to say this, but: Everyone in Palestine is disabled right now.”
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Lessons from Anti-Apartheid Struggles: Past and Present
“This is a system that needs religion to justify itself…you can do whatever you like if we consider ourselves as God’s people…it’s not just white supremacy. It is an attempt to convince the world that they are special, that they are the exception, that they have God’s approval.”
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Amnesty International Report on the Gaza Genocide
I am just beginning to read over the Amnesty International Gaza Genocide report and, rather than write about it, I’m going to highly recommend you read it yourself. Here’s the link:
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James Cone Illuminates White Christian Complacency about the Palestinian Genocide
“They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.”–Acts 10:39 “The white South’s perspective on the Reconstruction was told in Thomas Dixon’s enormously popular novel The Leopard’s Spots (1902), which sold over one million copies. It was followed by The Clansman (1905). Both novels portrayed the Klan as redeemers of the South. D.W.
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Voices from the West Bank–Press Conference
A call from people in the West Bank, people trying to hold a press conference in Jenin and they weren’t able to hold a press conference. What follows is an attempt to uplift these voices that have been silenced. What we have been seeing, the devastation in Gaza has moved to the West Bank, and
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Book Review: Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians, Revised and Updated Ed.
Gaza in Crisis (2010) is an crucial book that lays out the essential military and social engineering moves that have dominated the lives of Palestinians in Gaza, but also the West Bank, since 1948. The chapters are short and their style varied. What follows are some highlights from this essential book, but reading this masterful
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