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…
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…
When you read this, I will be in Jerusalem traveling with 18 people in Palestine and Israel after a three-year COVID hiatus. We have now surpassed 250 people from within 60 miles of Fort Wayne who have traveled with me in my 15 “solidarity tours” since 2002. If I am to be honest, it’s been…
Artwashing, Sportswashing, Foodwashing, Veganwashing, Pinkwashing, Faithwashing See also Red, Blue, and Purple Washing. In my last blog, I talked about greenwashing in the context of the Sierra Club’s backtracking on its decision-reversal and reinstating their educational tours to Israel. Here I want to discuss other ways Israel attempts to wash its dirty laundry. Remember the…
We Remember Jerry Lawson on Israel’s – and America’s – “Slaughter of the Innocents” Two significant things in my world happened early this past week: On Tuesday, Amnesty International joined Human Rights Watch, and two Israeli organizations, Yesh Din and B’Tselem, in issuing a report not only calling Israel an “apartheid state” committing “crimes against…
Last Wednesday, January 19, in the pre-dawn hours, heavily armed Israeli occupation forces stormed two houses belonging to the Salhiyeh family in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah where they had lived for over 60 years (they bought their house in 1958), beating and dragging 15 residents, including many children, from their homes out…
Desmond Tutu was badass. For the last week, from political and religious leaders, peace makers and activists, people of all faiths and no faith at all, accolades and tributes have poured out from all over the globe for the diminutive cleric with the infectious smile, a twinkle in his eye and disarming giggle, who often…
So Says the United Church of Christ; So Say We All Indiana Center for Middle East Peace has been invited by the United Church of Christ Palestine-Israel Network (UCC-PIN) to partner with them to host a series of webinars for the church based upon the UCC’s 2021 General Synod Resolution, “Declaration For A Just Peace…