Forty years ago an international coalition of over 1,200 organizations working for freedom in Palestine would meet yearly to share information and coordinate action. A similar effort is needed today more than ever.
Palestinians are warning of threats by Israeli religious extremists and Christian Zionists to demolish the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, making way for the Third Jewish Temple.
I witnessed the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, carried out with Zionist complicity as a preview for the “final solution to the Palestinian problem.” With the present Israeli government, this goal is within reach.
During the tumultuous early 1940s, the great Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr challenged the United States,…