Carroll High School, Jimmy Carter’s Iran Hostage Crisis, Definition of ‘Palestinian’ One of the things that Critical Studies (that’s right, Critical Race Studies, Critical Gender Studies, and the like) has taught us is the importance, even the necessity, for individuals, groups, and peoples to be able to tell their own stories. And for the rest…
Graylan Hagler and I have known each other for at least a dozen years. He was our guest speaker for our 2018 Annual ICMEP Commemoration of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And I was a guest interviewee on his weekly radio show a couple of years ago. Graylan is Pastor Emeritus, Plymouth United…
Dear friends, I want to highlight two recent articles from American Jewish voices of conscience. Along with The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss comes into my InBox every morning. It is a “must-read” for anyone involved in the ongoing struggle for civil, political, and human rights in Palestine and Israel. It identifies itself as “a news website…
I read Jimmy Carter’s September, 2007 Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid within a month after it appeared. By that time I had led my first four “Solidarity Tours” to Palestine and Israel and Indiana Center for Middle East Peace had within the previous few months hosted two of our most important early programs: + A day-long…
The following is a sermon offered by Michael Spath on Feb. 5, 2023, at Emmaus Road Mennonite Fellowship in Berne, IN. You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under…
I’m typing these words at 8:17am on Thursday, January 26, and I’m noting the date and time because the numbers sadly, alarmingly, are increasing daily, almost hourly. Nine Palestinians have just been killed by Israeli forces in an early morning raid in the Jenin refugee camp, 20 others injured, including four critically. Jenin – a…
Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote this to his dear Mary Haskell from Paris already in 1908 about what would eventually become a trilogy, a full fifteen years before the publication of its first volume, The Prophet. And in another letter to Haskell shortly after it was published, he wrote: The whole Prophet is saying just one…
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, The two questions I’m asked most often are: First, “Why do you do what you do? What is it about the Palestinian issue that has caused you to commit your life to it?” And the second, “Where do you find hope?” …
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace,I was invited to represent ICMEP at the (November 18-19) 13th anniversary of the seminal Kairos Palestine document (2009) and for the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition (of which ICMEP is a member) meetings. The document below – really a manifesto – is the result of our conversations in which the gathered 35 representatives…
So I’m in Palestine and Israel this week for the 13th anniversary of the Kairos Palestine document as well as meetings of the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition. But I first laid over in Jerusalem on Tuesday for meetings with Jeff Halper and Awad Abdelfattah, two of the leaders (Israeli Jewish and Palestinian) of the…