During my last days exploring, searching, the ghosts of former residents of the destroyed towns and villages call out to me, Skip, we are still here. Tho expelled, please feel our presence. See us, show us, help us regain our basic human rights. We want to go home! We have a right to our homes […]
Read More The Ongoing and Relentless Nakba: searching for the shadows of ancestors in British ParkIn July 2019 during a conversation with Amos, who I met during my first trip to the region in 2003 in his kibbutz, Shefayim, and listening to his friend, Aziz Al-Touri, near the Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the Naqab/Negev desert, I heard two major claims: from Amos that one’s life is concretely determined […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: Amos Gvirtz and Aziz Al-Touri, a Jewish Israeli and his Bedouin friend in the southern Negev/Naqab desert(The Agape Community published an earlier version in The Servant Song, summer 2021) When passion can’t flow easily into policymaking, it congeals as angry protest, growing wilder and more paranoid. Daniel Immerwahr Climate justice or justice for Palestine? Which for me will take precedence in my activism? With limited energy and time remaining in my […]
Read More How far can outrage carry me?Boston and the Atlantic Ocean PHOTOS (flight) During my recent West Coast visit I lived the reality of climate change. California is parched, so at each of my temporary homes hosts encouraged me to flush only when needed, run water until hot into a bucket to use later for a toilet flush, shut the water off when […]
Read More Faith in Action: a report of my West Coast tourYour sensitivity to light and emotion is dramatic, the brilliant daylight framing the sad courageous eyes and brave determined expressions of our Gaza neighbors, as they face such a cruel, demented, and terrifying adversary. I think you are very brave too, and I thank you deeply for shining a true light on these barbaric crimes […]
Read More Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel: New photographic presentationsExcerpts from my journal as I explore the situation in Palestine and Israel Bassam Tamimi with his daughters Photos The Freedom Bus project was not started as a way of doing touristic and artistic tours of the West Bank. And this is not why we joined either. It is helping us to understand more fully this […]
Read More Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel—The Freedom Ride in Nabi SalihExcerpts from my journal as I explore the situation in Palestine and Israel PHOTOS March 8, 2015, Sunday, Golden Gate hostel, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel-Palestine (Warm, low 60s, sunny, calm—other than the temperature this might be the usual report.) Yesterday [March 7, 2015], one day before the official International Women’s Day, I arrived at the […]
Read More Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel—The Woman’s Day March on Kalandia Checkpoint.In an Israeli shopping mall Model of Yad Vashem Excerpts from my journal as I explore the situation in Palestine and Israel March 6, 2015, Friday, Golden Gate hostel, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel-Palestine PHOTOS: (Warmer, low 60s, sunny, calm.) “I’m sure [my memory] only works one way,” Alice remarked. “I can’t remember things before they happen.” […]
Read More Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel—Purim & Yad Vashem: Pieces of TruthBan al Ghussain, Islam Madhoun, and their son, from their Facebook page After the Israeli assault on Gaza, yet another, probably the most damaging, with Palestinian deaths topping 2,100 and injuries 11,200, most of them civilian, more than 106,000 displaced in UN shelters and with host families, one half million children unable to begin the […]
Read More Correspondence with my Gazan friends during the 2014 crisisALERT: difficult to view photos below. Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob […]
Read More Prophets, Gaza, Israel, and Suicide Diplomacy
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