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Rev. Graylan Hagler Asks Supporters of Israel: “Isn’t it about time to break your silence?”

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 Church of Christ, Washington, DC and Director & Chief Visionary, Faith Strategies, Washington DC. He is the former Co-Chair of DC’s Poor People’s Campaign,,

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Dr. Michael Spath March 9, 2023

Perspectives on Israeli Apartheid and Extremism from two Jewish Voices of Conscience

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 devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East from a progressive Jewish perspective.” Two recent compelling articles have appeared in Mondoweiss that

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Dr. Michael Spath March 3, 2023

Peter Beinert says, “Jimmy Carter Deserves an Apology Before He Dies”

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 meeting with Dr. Don Wagner (North Park University) and Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak (JewsOnFirst) on “Christians, the Bible, and the Holy Land,” and  +

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Dr. Michael Spath February 22, 2023

Radically Mennonite

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 foot. You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts

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Dr. Michael Spath February 8, 2023

Israel is Killing More than One Palestinian a Day in 2023

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 place where I have taken a few of my solidarity tour groups – home of the internationally-renowned Freedom Theatre and Canaan Fair Trade.  And

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Dr. Michael Spath January 29, 2023

Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet at 100

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 thing: you are far far greater than you know – and All is well. The first words of The Prophet were quoted in the

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Dr. Michael Spath January 13, 2023
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