Tag: Palestine
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A Thorough, November Update on Gaza
By, A Friend Living in Palestine, November 16, 2025 The recent period of the war on Gaza, marked by the ostensible ceasefire of October 2025, has unfolded as yet another chapter in the devastation of the Palestinian enclave. Satellite analysis, humanitarian reports, and international observations paint a sobering picture of destruction, displacement, and a peace
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The Olive Season in Palestine 2025: Harvest Under Siege
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, October 2025 In Bethlehem, as in most Palestinian villages, the olive season is a significant social and cultural occasion. I grew up experiencing the harvest season with my family and cousins. Those were days filled with work and laughter; we would gather under the shade of the trees, eat homemade
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Hearts Still Beating for Justice
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, August 2025 Here in Palestine, we feel the weight of the madness every day. The news is not something distant for us, it is our streets, our homes, our neighbors’ tears. Each morning, we wake to the echo of uncertainty, and each night we lie down with the heavy knowledge
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Staying Strong Right Now for Palestine
We cannot deny that things are very bad right now in Palestine. They have been for over 100 years, and this is an extremely difficult chapter. During times of grief and pain and confusion, we need to put one foot in front of the other. When we do this, every step we take sends forth
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Palestine Book Club at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park
A secular book club for people who want to learn about Palestine. This is not Christian affiliated or associated with Christian Minus Christianity. For more information, contact Marti Schmidt at martha@marthalschmidt.net or Diane Paul at dianepaul475@gmail.com. Join us as we discuss books on and about Palestine rarely reviewed in the corporate media and hard to find in bookstores!
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How do we make Palestinian pain like our own here?
The other day I wrote my friends in Palestine, “even though you’re on the other side of the world, I don’t speak your native language, we are different church denominations, and global powers are making everyone more and more paranoid, your wellbeing makes me more emotional than than things that happen here, which is what
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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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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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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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