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Human rights violations in Israel and Palestine have nearly tripled during the past year, according to reports from the most recent set of ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.A group of ecumen...

Human rights violations in Israel and Palestine have nearly tripled during the past year, according to reports from the most recent set of ecumenical accompaniers from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel.

Simple activities, such as walking to school, are often occasions of harassment by the Israeli military. Yes, young children are harassed walking to school!That is why there is an organization that brings in foreigners to assist in walking Palestinian children to school!

"The soldiers went away because you were watching.” “I am able to herd my sheep near the military base because I feel safe in the presence of ecumenical accompaniers, and settler harassment is much less when you are around.” “We feel safe when the ecumenical accompaniers are present.”

This is the way wars operate. In the ancient world one army would send out their Goliath while the other would send out their David. The winner takes all. The loser becomes the conquered—at least theoretically. Even then, we might ask, why does David or Goliath have to die? If the kings want to go to war, why don’t they stand on the battlefield and fight themselves? Maybe then they would think twice before they sent others to die. What I intend to do in this post is two-fold: I hope to prov...

An Israeli member of the group “Good Neighbours of Abu Tor” handing out a piece of cake to a Palestinian resident of the Abu Tor, in a photo shared on the Israeli Police’s Facebook page. “Let them eat cake” is the famous misquote attributed to Marie Antoinette in the late 18th century. Even though it is unlikely she ever said this exact phrase, it perfectly captured the stark gap between the upper and lower classes of pre-revolution France. Perhaps the reason this quote became ...