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Let this cup pass: Gethsemane’s cry through Palestinian experience
“What the olive press teaches us remains true across time and space: Resistance to suffering is not faithlessness but is woven into the very fabric of faith. Jesus did not glorify suffering but resisted it even as he ultimately faced it. His genuine plea to have “this cup” removed stands as eternal validation for all who cry out against injustice.”
- Shadia Qubti
To Read the full opinion piece: HERE
Middle East Eye Interview: Momodou Taal
The crackdown by the Trump administration on pro-Palestine activists has continued to intensify despite legal challenges. Undercover agents belonging to the department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE for short, have been filmed arresting university students on campuses, in their homes and even in the middle of the street. Some of those targeted as part of this nationwide sweep have attempted to appeal to the justice system - in Cornell university a group of academics and students launched a legal case against the Trump Administration. At its centre is the case of Momodou Taal, a British-Gambian PHD student whose home was then raided by ICE agents in an attempt to arrest him.
Watch Momodou Taal’s interview with Middle East Eye
“This is a turning point in our shared story. History will remember and we are never going back.”
Momodou Taal shared an open letter to Instagram on his decision to leave the U.S. in the face of intimidation and repression from the state. In it, he shares gratitude for support received, dismay at the extent and breadth of state repression, and grief for “a world where genocidal violence can be waged with impunity,” and grief for Palestine.
Click the photo to read the open letter.
A cry from the heart and a call to action from a Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian: Christ in the Rubble
In this impassioned and incisive book, Munther Isaac challenges mainstream Christians’ uncritical embrace of the modern State of Israel. Speaking from his unique vantage point as a prominent Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian, he proclaims a truth that is rarely acknowledged in Christian circles: Israel’s campaign to eliminate the Palestinian people did not begin after October 7, 2023. Rather, the campaign is a continuation of a colonial project with nineteenth-century roots that has, since 1948, established systems of entrenched discrimination and segregation worse than South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Writing from Bethlehem with close-up knowledge of conditions on the ground, and rooted in a commitment to nonviolence and just peace, Isaac urges readers to recognize that support for Zionism’s genocidal project entails a failure to bring a properly Christian theological criticism to bear upon colonialism, racism, and empire. He calls on Christians to repent of their complicity in the destruction of the Palestinian people. He calls on Christians to repent of their complicity in the destruction of the Palestinian people. And he challenges them to realign their beliefs and actions with Christ—who can be found not among perpetrators of violence, but with victims buried under the rubble of war.
— Eerdmans Publishing Co.