By rejecting Jerusalem’s churches, the US ambassador to Israel advances a narrow Zionist reading of Christianity, shifting God’s covenant from Christ to power, territory and exclusion
More than 230 Christian school teachers were barred from Jerusalem through restrictive permit policies, exposing a broader Israeli strategy to undermine Palestinian education and religious presence in the city. Fayha’ Shalash reports from the West Bank.
Father Talat Awad, pastor of the Church of the Dormition in the West Bank, told The New Arab that Israel’s occupation spares nothing—“humans, stones, trees, or animals.” He added that Christians and church properties in Jerusalem now face the same destruction and violence long inflicted on Gaza’s churches.
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Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna were held in detention for two nights in harsh conditions, after police raided their bookshop and confiscated books they claimed ‘incited violence.’
The brothers were questioned just once for 15 minutes. ‘We challenge the Israeli narrative, but also the Palestinian narrative.’
With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of ‘incitement,’ Israeli police raided East Jerusalem’s world-famous Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.
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