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We are the Bishop’s Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land (Episcopal Diocese of Olympia). We envision a future in which everyone in the Holy Land can live with peace, security, and justice.
12/30/2023
On Sunday, December 10, St. Mark's Cathedral's Dean Thomason was joined virtually by Father Fadi Diab, rector of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Ramallah. Father Diab provided updates from the Christian community in Ramallah. "We're very much, psychologically, devastated," he said. "The community we serve also overwhelmed with the pain that mainly comes from Gaza, but also from places that the Israeli army invades in the West Bank." …...
“Life in Palestine in This Time of War” with Fr. Fadi Diab and Dean Thomason at St. Mark’s Cathedral On Sunday, December 10, St. Mark’s Cathedral’s Dean Thomason was joined virtually by Father Fadi Diab, rector of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Ramallah. Father Diab provided upd…
08/17/2023
Could the widespread protests against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul change the status quo in the West Bank? By Isaac Chotiner | New Yorker | August 15, 2023 In January, shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu swore in Israel’s new government, I spoke by phone with Raja Shehadeh, the Palestinian lawyer and activist who co-founded the human-rights organization Al-Haq. Shehadeh was concerned about many of the extremists who had joined Netanyahu’s coalition, but he also predicted that the government’s impact was likely to register more strongly among Israelis than Palestinians, who have been living under occupation for decades....
How Israel’s Democratic Crisis Affects Palestinians [picture] Could the widespread protests against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul change the status quo in the West Bank? By Isaac Chotiner | New Yorker | August 15, 2023 In January, shortly after Benj…
04/19/2023
Ensuring that Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. security assistance, complies with federal laws and international human rights standards will require closely tracking and monitoring its weapons use. By Josh Ruebner, Salih Booker, Zaha Hassan | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | May 12, 2021 Through FY2020, the United States has provided Israel with $146 billion in military, economic, and missile defense funding....
Bringing Assistance to Israel in Line With Rights and U.S. Laws Ensuring that Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. security assistance, complies with federal laws and international human rights standards will require closely tracking and monitoring its weapons…
02/27/2023
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich published a shocking plan in 2017 to advance Israeli apartheid. Now that it is being put into action veteran journalist Ron Ben-Yishai finally recognizes the danger. By Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss | Feb 22, 2023 ...Israel has so far been framing its deportations, its military crackdowns, its whole occupation, as a temporary state of emergency. Smotrich wants to do away with this: Drop the pretensions and say it like it is – that it’s a state of Jewish supremacy from the river to the sea, and that Palestinians need to accept it officially, or leave, or die....
Another mainstream Israeli voice warns of Apartheid Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich published a shocking plan in 2017 to advance Israeli apartheid. Now that it is being put into action veteran journalist Ron Ben-Yishai finally recognizes t…
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