Gaza
Peace pilgrimage takes up war in Gaza as a civil rights issue
By Yonat Shimron — February 13, 2024
(RNS) — Many Black Americans view the Palestinian cause in the context of the African American experience of oppression. This has on occasion strained relations with American Jews.
Muslim advocacy group denounces stabbing of 23-year-old Palestinian American
By Fiona André — February 7, 2024
(RNS) — The assault was ‘bias-motivated and will be reviewed by the Hate Crimes Review Committee,’ wrote the Austin Police Department in its statement.
In search of peace in the Holy Land
By Bridget Moix — February 7, 2024
(RNS) — Gaza is the epicenter, but a broader war was unfolding all around us.
Israel’s president says the UN world court misrepresented his comments in its genocide ruling
By Associated Press — January 30, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — The court's ruling on Friday cited a series of statements made by Israeli leaders as evidence of incitement and dehumanizing language against Palestinians.
After menu is deemed antisemitic, eatery throws Shabbat dinner for Jewish neighbors
By Fiona André — January 29, 2024
NEW YORK (RNS) — Palestinian restaurateurs tried to set the record straight after cheekily naming seafood section of the menu 'From the River to the Sea.'
Support for Israel’s war in Gaza is unraveling among some Jewish groups
By Yonat Shimron — January 23, 2024
(RNS) — J Street, the liberal American Jewish organization dedicated to a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, called for an end to the war, the latest American Jewish group to do so.
Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects
By Stephennie Mulder — January 19, 2024
(The Conversation) — Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology.
Thank God We’re Not A Christian Nation
By Ray Kirstein — January 13, 2024
Host Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with interfaith leader Imam Abdullah Antepli and David Barton Christian nation debunker Warren Throckmorton
A Jew coined the word ‘genocide.’ Now it’s being used against the Jewish state.
By Yonat Shimron — January 10, 2024
(RNS) — Israel has vehemently denied the accusation that the International Court of Justice will begin hearing Thursday.
Mike Pence writes messages on bombs meant for Lebanon. Would Jesus do that?
By Daoud Kuttab — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — A debunked theology is providing cover for supremacists — both white Christian and Jewish — to pursue an illegal war.
Finding hope amid the rubble of our world is not naive. It is necessary.
By Bridget Moix — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — Our work advocating for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world will need to be continually renewed, not just this year but for many years ahead.
Don’t let the war tear apart the tapestry of faith that makes America strong
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — December 27, 2023
(RNS) — This is not the time for faith communities to retreat into ourselves.
Survey: Antisemitism at US campuses limited to select schools
By Yonat Shimron — December 15, 2023
(RNS) — The survey of 51 public and private universities from The Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University found a small number of 'hotspot' schools where Jewish students faced a hostile environment.
Don’t look! Why we should turn away from visual images of atrocities
By Beth Kissileff — December 12, 2023
(RNS) — If we concentrate on the atrocities done to victims we are only choosing to see them as their tormentors did, not as they would prefer to be seen and remembered.
Loaded words can end with loaded guns
By Avi Shafran — December 12, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Genocide,’ ‘apartheid’ and ‘terrorism’ are being loosely employed — and grossly misused.
