The PLO, ANC, IRA, Algerian resistance, and other liberation movements committed atrocities against civilians and were labeled terrorist organizations. But they were eventually invited into the political process. The same must happen with Hamas.
Co-existence between Jews and Arabs is not possible under Israeli apartheid, but there is an opportunity to work toward a better future based on equality and genuine democracy through co-resistance.
The time has come for Israeli Jews and their supporters to answer whether they believe in human equality or will continue to insist on Jewish supremacy.
As a Palestinian Christian organization, Sabeel rejects armed resistance however legitimate and justified it might be. Nonviolence remains the most effective strategy at this time in Palestine.
The proper response to antisemitism is to increase solidarity with other oppressed groups, not demand support for Zionism.
The existence of Hamas is used by Israel to justify the siege of Gaza and also the paralysis of peace talks. Hamas has become a convenient excuse for indefinite occupation. It may well be time to broach the taboo subject of talking to Hamas and seek a way of bringing them into the peace conversation. Certainly, there can be no peace without Hamas and its followers participating in some way or another.
Friends of Sabeel North America joins hundreds of religious leaders across the United States to call for an end to Israel’s unethical and immoral treatment of deceased Palestinians.
“The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st century slavery.” With these words, Rev J. Herbert Nelson II, the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA, demonstrated his courage in acknowledging the humanity of Palestinians.
Annexation will require that Israel update, change, adapt, or reaffirm decrees, laws, and military orders that have governed how the occupying power administers the territory and its inhabitants. Jonathan Kuttab discusses how these changes will impact the legal status of Israeli settlers, and the Palestinians that live in the areas that are annexed.
Rejecting the two-state solution was seen as repudiation of Zionism and the destruction of the concept of a Jewish state, so unthinkable that in many venues, no serious discussion of a one-state solution was tolerated. That era is over. Let us imagine a state where one person equals one vote.