Their visit (organized by a Menachem Begin friend) wasn’t intended to meet Palestinian Christians or to visit the holy site of Bethlehem as Christmas approaches. Instead, they came to express solidarity with Israel & its oppression of the Palestinians. How can one claim to be a follower of Christ while standing with those who kill, dispossess, & degrade an entire people?
“This is unprecedented damage,” said the lead researcher on the project, who has worked in wartorn Syria. Gaza has “become like a barren land.”
Israel wants exit-only crossing at Gaza border; Israel kills Palestinian in West Bank; possible assassination plan for Marwan Barghouti; Ms Rachel
Yasser Abu Shabab, collaborator with Israel, is dead; 3 Gaza detainees dead in Israeli custody; ceasefire-shmeasefire; stealing history; Israel’s war on kids’ soccer; a “second West Bank” in Syria?
Israel kills 7 including kids; Israel’s latest war crimes; Christmas in Bethlehem; another separation fence; Guinness Book of World Records boycotts Israel; Track AIPAC; Trump’s plans for Lebanon
PTSD in Gaza; Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in West Bank; Al Aqsa mosque; legislating apartheid; settler violence; is your favorite movie star speaking up for Palestine?
Israel’s two-year-long onslaught against Gaza of toxic gases, heavy metals, forced starvation have led to a nightmare scenario of miscarriages, neonatal deaths, congenital deformities…
New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes.
Israel blocks 6,000 aid trucks; being a mom in Gaza without hands; torture in Israeli prisons; Israeli settlers out of control; Israel’s record weapons sales; AIPAC First
Gaza’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’; Israeli settler violence; kill a Palestinian, get a promotion; ‘imperial Israel’; ‘Israelis are numb to suffering other than their own’; Northwestern U