Category: Palestine
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The Israeli Policy of Palestinian Fragmentation has Succeeded
In this video the Kuttab brothers debate the future of Palestine. It is difficult to watch because you can see how the division between approaches to a resolution are hampered by US and Israeli stifling of community. It’s a divide and conquer strategy. Watch the video, wherein two brilliant Palestinian brothers debate Israel/Palestine, one- or
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Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible
Mitri Raheb is one of my favorite theologians. I came across his work after reading a book by Philip Jenkins called The New Faces of Global Christianity that was basically racist. Written in the early 2000’s in the wake of 9/11 it argues, among other things, that Muslims are all fundamentalists. Eager to purify my
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Christ at the Checkpoint, Part 2
Part 2 of Christ at the Checkpoint (edited by Manfred W. Kohl and Munther Isaac) features a biblical response to Christian Zionism. Most notably, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac writes about how Christian Zionism is an imperial theology based in supremacy. I think that this is important to remember, because a lot of people want to
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Gaza Passages Through Genocide
https://www.gazapassages.com/ is a website that features writers from Gaza. Take care and return to this as often as possible. From the website: We collect, translate and publish texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza, to lift up their words.We urge you to share, print, publish and distribute these texts by all possible means,
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Christ at the Checkpoint, Part 1
Christ at the Checkpoint is an influential evangelical conference put on by Bethlehem Bible College. Its focus is on peacemaking in the Holy Land. I just started a book that was put out by the conference entitled Christ at the Checkpoint: Blessed are the Peacemakers. It is a good book, and I especially appreciate the
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What is the Relationship between Israel and the Church?
Learn about how to interpret Scripture from Stephen Sizer, who is so persuasive that he has been defamed as antisemitic by Zionists (which is addressed here on his website if you want to look at that before watching this stunning video):
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Faith in the Face of Empire, Part 2
I think that the second part of this book by Mitri Raheb (2014) is most valuable for its explanation of what the Kairos Palestine document calls creative resistance. It is called creative resistance because calling something non-violent resistance in a Palestinian sense seems to imply that Palestinians are by default violent. This is a serious
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Faith in the Face of Empire, Part 1
I am reading Mitri Raheb’s Faith in the Face of Empire on Palestinian theology. The biggest thing I have gotten from it is the move to not have an exceptionalist interpretation of the Bible. As Raheb persuasively and yet also briefly argues, the entire Old Testament and especially the New Testament are designed to undermine
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Challenging Christian Silence on the Gazan Genocide
What is missing in our solidarity with the Palestinian people? “What is missing is a true understanding of what it means to be a true disciple of Christ,” explains Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac. “We need to center the theology of Matthew 25 throughout the church.”
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Crump’s Like Birds in a Cage Interview
Dr. David Crump was a New Testament professor for decades in Grand Rapids, MI and he was interviewed by Stephen Sizer six months ago about the Israeli propaganda narrative about the birth of the state of Israel. I read his book, Like Birds in a Cage, and God himself told me to build my work
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