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18 September 2025

People of Faith Speak Out (6)

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“Law enforcement officers respond to Mennonite Action participants singing outside the congressional office of Sen. Mark Warner in Washington, D.C.” — Mennonite Action
On September 9, my good friend Jack Wald (from 1970s seminary days) and I took a train to Washington, DC to deliver letters protesting US policy vis à vis Israel to our elected representatives. In particular, we were urging them to vote against sending any more weapons to Israel, as they have been using them in their brutal war in…
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22 August 2025

Who Said "Genocide"?

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[University buildings blown up] “Israel’s demolition of educational institutions, cultural objects in Gaza, is additional manifestation of genocide,” Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, February 16, 2024
I ended my last post by referring to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem’s 2021 press release declaring that their nation was committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. This was the subtitle, “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: this is apartheid.” In fact, they were referring…
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10 August 2025

Jimmy Carter and Israeli Apartheid (4)

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Sadat, Carter, and Begin, 1978. In the closing hour of its virtual national conference Monday, the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy organization J Street presented its Tzedek v’Shalom, or Justice and Peace Award to former President Jimmy Carter. Accepting on behalf of the 96-year-old Carter was Paige Alexander, CEO of The Carter Center, based in Atlanta.
Most would have predicted that the first American president to call himself “born again” (hence, evangelical Protestant) would be a staunch defender of the state of Israel. As you will remember from my first post in this series, a large majority of evangelicals are “Christian Zionists,” and therefore unsympathetic to any call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.…
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04 August 2025

The Vicious Cycle of Abuse: Israel as a Case Study

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The Flour March. Thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on July 23, 2025, to call for a resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza. It was dubbed, “The Four March.” Mohammed Mohisen, “Jaffa, ‘Tel Aviv,’ rose up while Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, Tunis, the Gulf capitals, and the West Bank stayed silent.”
In this third installment in my series on Israel/Palestine, I advance a bold hypothesis, one which cannot possibly be defended on scientific grounds. But I do so on the basis of my personal experience in Israel-Palestine from 1992-1996 and several visits since then, including a five-week research stay in 1999 (in Bethlehem and Hebron). I’ve also read a good deal…
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