Category: Palestine
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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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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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