September 21, 2020 /
L Michael Spath
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Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, On this United Nations International Day of Peace, we remember the Black and Palestinian lives unjustly taken by colonialist forces of empire, injustice, racism, and greed. And we remember all the lives of indigenous peoples and people of color in their resistance and liberation…
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September 20, 2020 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, 15 years, 200+ programs. This week on our short YouTube Retrospectives, we remember many of the Activists we’ve hosted in our 15 year history (you can find our previous ones with Diplomats & Scholars and Jewish & Muslim Voices of Conscience on our ICMEP YouTube…
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September 14, 2020 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, 15 years, 200+ programs. Last Sunday we featured the Diplomats and Scholars we’ve hosted (you can find it on our ICMEP YouTube Channel). On the short YouTube listed here, we focus on the Jewish and Muslim Voices of Conscience we have hosted during our history….
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September 8, 2020 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, ICMEP is celebrating its 15th anniversary at our upcoming Gala, with the theme: “Happy Birthday ICMEP: 15 Years Faithful.” I’m including the link to our most recent newsletter with the Gala information, upcoming programs, and a listing of all the programs we’ve hosted in…
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September 6, 2020 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, 15 years, 200+ programs. On the four minute YouTube listed here, we focus on the Diplomats and Scholars we have hosted during our history. Our programs have changed the conversation about Palestine and Israel, and US involvement in the Middle East, in our area….
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September 2, 2020 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
2020 marks the 15th anniversary of our first program so we’re throwing a party. We’re respecting the CDC guidelines for meetings, so we’re holding a Zoom Party for our Gala on Saturday, October 24, 7:00pm-8:30pm. Please join us to celebrate. You have been a vital part of our work as the Indiana voice for peace,…
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June 22, 2018 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
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…
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May 27, 2017 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
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…
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April 20, 2017 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
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…
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April 17, 2017 /
L Michael Spath
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Blog
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…
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