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Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, Three major evils – the evil of racism, the evil of poverty, and the evil of war. These are the three things that I want to deal with today, these three evils are tied together – the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and…
Dear friends of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, Recently our October 2017 Gala keynoter, Dr. Alice Rothchild was disinvited from speaking at a prestigious New England private school. Please read her account. And please note the paragraph I highlighted as part of her response to the school authorities who disinvited her. Her honesty and…
The Al-Rowwad Theater and Cultural Center in the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem is a treasure in the midst of occupation and oppression. It’s Executive Director is Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour, who grew up in the camp, studied in Europe, and then returned to help the young people of Palestine transcend the physical, psychological, and political…
On this Prisoners’ Day, over 1000 Palestinian prisoners have begun a hunger strike in Israeli prisons. It is important to note that since the Nakba (“catastrophe”) of 1948 with the creation of the State of Israel and the further occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, approximately a million Palestinians have been detained…
As tens of millions of Christians worship freely this Easter, and tens of thousands of Christians from around the world flock to Jerusalem to the site of Jesus’ resurrection, Palestinian Christians from the West Bank are restricted from traveling to Jerusalem to worship at the site of the birth of Christianity. http://imemc.org/article/as-christians-around-the-world-celebrate-easter-in-jerusalem-palestinian-christians-barred-from-attending-celebrations/ We pray for…
Syria, Assad, and the US Bombing: What Should the American Response Be? L. Michael Spath, DMin, PhD, 12 Apirl 2017 To set the stage for the presentations by Ahmed and Sam, I want to offer a few general observations: ONE. 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles, at $1,410,000 each, equals approximately $83,000,000. TWO. First let…
Dear friends of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, We are so excited about hosting Dr. Alice Rothchild to be the keynote speaker at our 2017 ICMEP Gala. The Gala will be on Saturday, October 21, Courtyard by Marriott downtown Fort Waye, 5:30-9:30pm. Alice’s presentation will be: “My Journey from Zionism to Palestinian Human Rights…
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace and Mennonite Church USA host Jewish & Palestinian Voices for Peace, Plymouth Congregational Church UCC, 501 West Berry Street, Thursday, May 11, 6:30pm. Amy Shuster, a representative of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Central Ohio chapter, will partner with Jonathan Kuttab, a prominent Mennonite Palestinian human rights lawyer, on this leg of a…
Indiana Center for Middle Easte Peace hosts the screening of the powerful documentary, narrated by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Propaganda War in the United States, April 20, 6:30pm. The Auditorium at Manchester University College of Pharmacy, 10627 Diebold Rd (off of DuPont Road), Fort Wayne, IN 46845. Israel’s ongoing…
INDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE is excited to be hosting Rev. Alex Awad, Tuesday, March 21, at Beacon Heights Church of the Brethren, 2810 Beacon Street, from 6:30-8:30pm. 260.482.8595. Alex is the retired pastor at East Jerusalem Baptist Church and Professor at Bethlehem Bible College. His family is one of the oldest and most…