Category: Palestine
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Legal Issues and Palestinian Advocacy
This great post from Al Shabaka addresses the reality that people face persecution for their Palestinian advocacy. I am not giving legal advice by sharing this, and this article is clear in saying that it is also not offering legal advice. In Seattle, a teacher was recorded saying that he didn’t think it was a…
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Challenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’s
The issue goes so deep: people’s association between Israel and the United States because of the shared history of dispossession. Click here to watch more: https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/challenging-israels-legitimacy-also “Pro-Palestine activism offers a model” that would also help liberate Native Americans. That decolonization framework could also serve Native Americans and and those of us focused on their liberation.
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The Continuation of Zionist Settler-Colonialism
In this great article, you can read more about how the current genocide and occupation are part of the continuation of Zionist settler-colonialism. This is a fabulous organization, Al-Shabaka. It is a Palestinian policy network. The article is rather long, but it is a great summary of what is going on and what is at…
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Planning for the Future with Gaza
I am already trying to figure out what the future holds with me and Gaza. I want to know how to serve long-term and I am not sure how this is supposed to work with my life and how it will unfold here in the United States. When I think about Gaza I am as…
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Reading about Israel in a Theology Textbook
Gaza has entered a state of famine and tens of thousands of people have died. Meanwhile, I’m in seminary and none of this is being discussed. I’m reading this weird piece that talks about how Israel in the Bible is a statement against empire because of Exodus. This is disorienting because neither the Bible nor…
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Is it complicated?
I am thinking about how, as I interact with people here in the US, I keep hearing that Israel-Palestine is complicated. Really, should our perception of whether or not something is complicated, should our assessment of that here in the US be what determines if Palestinians are to be continually displaced from their homes and…
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Rejected for Antizionism
We need a non Christian framework for ethics. My compass is christocentric, but by no means should my actions be based in Christianity, which is repulsive to me. When I reached out to a faith leader of color who is big in racial justice, this person still declined to meet with an antizionist rabbi. This…
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Ali Abu Awwad and Robi Damelin
“If the war needs anger, peace needs courage.” –Ali Abu Awwad Listen to this podcast with Brené Brown on how a Palestinian activist ended up wearing Israeli jacket, and how we need to have our own humanity and not diminish the humanity of others: Says Ali Abu Awwad: “Politicians don’t create the environment for peace,…
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A Wonderful Analysis of the Parable of the Good Samaritan
I thank a friend, Jeff Crosno, for alerting me to this gem of a sermon by Barbara Brown Taylor. Very timely given the polarization on Palestine and Israel right now. If we think we’re the good one in this parable, we need to reconsider:
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