Category: Palestine
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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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Confronting Christian Zionism
Christian rhetoric is enabling genocide and it’s not just because of end-times prophecies. “We need to judge Zionism itself and judge it by its fruits.” –Munther Isaac
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Christian Zionism Blinds People to the Suffering of Palestinians
Al Jazeera recently posted on Christian Zionism on YouTube. In this short, informational video, you can learn about the way that end-times prophecy actually is shaping Christian complicity in the current genocide. It is a short video:
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A Biblical Refutation of Christian Zionism
This is a great video by Stephen Sizer, who has been maligned as antisemitic. See his endorsers on his website, who affirm that Dr. Sizer is not antisemitic: https://www.stephensizer.com/friends/ …and then watch the wonderful video:
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Palestinian refugees, continued
If you’re not able to be absorbed into the country where you’re a refugee you’re a permanent refugee. I think a lot of Europeans and Americans when we hear the word refugee we are assuming the assimilation paradigm of our democracies, which that in itself is a draconian paradigm. But if your options are occupation…
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Israel, the UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees
I’m watching a course I bought from Palestine Nexus (link below). From it, I learned that Israel itself wanted the UNWRA because it didn’t want holocaust refugees treated the same as the refugees Israel was causing. I also have to say how much watching this course has humanized what a Palestinian refugee is. This is…
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How Palestine is Dismissed Even Amidst Genocide and Protests
I got in an argument with a relative about the protests that are going on right now. I was saying that I was glad that there were protests in favor of Palestine going on and they said that they thought that Hamas probably was rejoicing as well, and that maybe they had funded the protests.…
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