Dear Sisters and Brothers, Israel has as much right to a nation-state as Palestine, or Iraq, or Iran, or India, or the United States, or Great Britain, or Germany, or Russia or […]
One Democratic State
By Ken Boas The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), was founded in Jerusalem in 2003. Its mission – to resist the illegal demolition of Palestinian homes. ICAHD, with its Palestinian, Israeli, […]
Sixth Annual Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition Forum
By Mary Dawn Edwards (Photo Caption: Speakers Ibrahim Mohamed Ishaq, Eric Cohen, Andrew Burnett and Brian Adeba lead the discussion at the Sixth Annual PDEC Forum. (Photo: Chelsey Engel) The Sixth Annual PDEC […]
Statement of Thomas Merton Center on Violence in Israel and Palestine
This statement from the Thomas Merton Center Board of Directors was approved at their May 21 board meeting. The Thomas Merton Center, together with the United Nations community, condemns the lethal use […]
Support HR 4391 & The Release of Ahed Tamimi
BY KATE DAHER On April 11, Pittsburgh Jewish Voice for Peace co-founder, Dani Klein, artist and professor Hyla Willis, Bret Grote from the Abolitionist Law Center, and this writer delivered a letter […]
Support HR 4391 & the Release of Ahed Tamimi
(Photo Caption: Photo provided by Kate Daher) By Kate Daher On April 11, Pittsburgh Jewish Voice for Peace co-founder, Dani Klein, artist and professor Hyla Willis, Bret Grote from the Abolitionist Law Center, […]
Off Our Rockers and Into the Streets
By Bette McDevitt You may have seen us over the years. Raging Grannies, wearing hats salvaged from attics, shiny beads reminiscent of Mardi Gras, and buttons with slogans that catalog past causes […]
Israel as Pharaoh: A Passover Reflection
By Ken Boas Has Israel, the promised land for so many Jews all over the world, become a land of oppression and cruelty? Have the Palestinians become the people now waiting, after […]
Some Sort of Justice
By Emily Deferrari At midnight the bells began. A cacophony of Chinese wind chimes, and hand held bells, and sleigh bells, Sunday morning church bells, the sound of Eastern gongs, large bells […]
Jerusalem’s Recent History
By Emily Deferrari Some brief and relatively recent history: From the 7th into the 20th century, Jerusalem was administratively linked to Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire. In 1917, during the […]
newpeoplenewspaper.com 