Israel announces it will not allow Gaza’s Christians to visit Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year
No season of goodwill for Christians in the blockaded Gaza Strip
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Don’t blame the Israel lobby on Christians and Republicans
Philip Weiss reports that writers try to blame Democratic support for Israel on evangelical Christians so they won’t be called antisemitic. However, if evangelicals were so influential, Democrats would have supported Kavenaugh, would be anti-abortion, etc. And regarding Republicans: Adelson’s money was a major influence in Trump’s decision to move the embassy…
Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City ‘under threat’ from settlers
Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, seeks worldwide support for maintaining the status quo in Jerusalem, where settler groups are vandalizing church property and covertly buying up land in the Old City; Jerusalem’s city council wants $200 million in back taxes from churches; land may be expropriated. Phone Congress!
Israel bars Gaza Christians from Easter worship
Israel’s callous disregard for Palestinian freedom to worship grows even more brazen than usual this Easter, adding to an already long list of human rights abuses. It’s business as usual under occupation.
Israeli Soldiers Attack Palestinian Christians during Palm Sunday Procession (VIDEOS)
“Hosanna” means “save us,” but Israeli soldiers descended on Palm Sunday worshipers anyway, grabbing Palestinian flags out of their hands in the middle of their holy procession.
Holy Land Christians frustrated as vandalism continues unchecked
Another vandalism incident at a church in Israel. Christians are demanding convictions, but Netanyahu’s government continues to turn a blind eye.
Everyone could celebrate Easter in Jerusalem except Palestinian Christians
As with every year, Israel issued a number of permits for West Bank and Gaza Christians to enter Jerusalem during Easter. But then it imposed a week-long closure on the occupied territories for the Jewish Passover holiday, which coincided with Easter celebrations, thus deeming all permits void for this week.
Israel killed at least 32 Gazans on Saturday – Not a ceasefire Day 114
Bloodbath in Gaza; Rafah crossing – too little, too late?; US-Israel-Iran; Israel is all over the Epstein files; more
Is Israel opening the Rafah border to depopulate Gaza? – Not a ceasefire Day 113
Will Rafah crossing open to empty Gaza?; headlines on Iran; UNRWA without protections; settlers act as “vigilante militias” in West Bank; apartheid in the open; more arms to Israel with less Congressional oversight; the US occupation of Gaza
A West Bank Bus Trip Through ‘the Best Documented Ethnic Cleansing in History’
Government-sponsored violence by Israeli settlers, ‘apartheid roads’ and Palestinians being displaced from their homes. Peace Now provides a somber day trip in the occupied West Bank