About time – Peter Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip: Palestinians voted in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The vote on Saturday (Gaza time) in Gaza’s central city of Deir al-Balah was a largely symbolic pilot election, officials said, part of the Palestinian Authority’s effort to politically link Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – unpopular in the West Bank and frozen out of US-led

The Interfaith Action for Palestine (IAP) is bringing together a coalition of faith-rooted activist organizations to counter Christians United for Israel (CUFI) — the largest unconditional “pro-Israel” organization in the United States — during their Annual Summit in July. Last year, IAP mobilized hundreds in Washington, DC to disrupt CUFI’s agenda in powerful and creative ways of nonviolence. This year, interested organizations and groups can get involved by donating or participating in the weekend of action. Those interested can visit www.interfaithforpalestine.com God of Justice, we pray for brave prophetic voices internationally who live

Israel has been targetting journalists for many, many years – Peter It has often been described as a stalemate this week — this war that is now primarily centred on the Strait of Hormuz. Not even the financial markets seemed to react much to the latest presidential decrees this week, which seem to bear little connection to unfolding events. This was even though, slowly but surely, the military confrontations in the strait have been escalating, with both sides striking, or seizing, each other’s assets. And the

    Politics and the Pope       by Jonathan Kuttab President Trump, followed later by some of his supporters, criticized the Pope for speaking out against the war in Iran and Lebanon. They urged the Pope to “stay in his lane,” arguing that politics and religion do not mix and that he should stick to “religious” issues. Of course, much of this criticism is deeply hypocritical. These same people do not object to mixing politics and religion when it serves their interests but they

Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages The level of evil in Israeli’s is beyond understanding – Peter Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say. Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence.

Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes It is so sad that evil is alive and working even in a Rabbi – sadly he is not the only Rabbi that actively works for Genocide – Peter An extremist rabbi known for razing civilian homes in Gaza will light a torch at Israel’s independence day celebration on Tuesday, a role human rights campaigners said marked the embrace of genocide as the official “spirit of the nation”. Avraham Zarbiv is one

It will only get money if it makes money for Trump and Netanyahu – Peter Once a place for families to play and relax, Gaza’s coastlines are now crowded with makeshift tents. And as springtime temperatures rise, thousands of displaced Palestinians are now dealing with a surge of rats, fleas and other pests. “My children have been bitten. One of my sons was even bitten on the nose,” Muhammad al-Raqab, a Palestinian man living in a tent near the southern city of Khan Yunis, told AFP

April 13th marked Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time when people around the world honor the sacred memory of the six million Jews, along with millions of Roma and Sinti, people of Slavic and Polish descent, persons with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, those persecuted for their sexual orientation, and countless other innocent victims who were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime and its allies. God of compassion and justice, we lift up the families of all Holocaust survivors and remember that genocide is a structural sin that

Lets hope so – Peter Orbán gone and Meloni distancing herself, EU sanctions on trade and settlers are looking more likely Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem, Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, Ashifa Kassam in Budapest and Deborah Cole in BerlinSun 19 Apr 2026 12.36 BSTShare Prefer the Guardian on Google It was a bad week for Israel in Europe: the country lost its staunchest regional ally when Viktor Orbán was toppled from power in Hungary, and Italy suspended a key defence pact. The shifts are likely to pave the way for long-delayed sanctions against violent settlers

In his first interview since returning from Gaza, David McIntosh says he witnessed Israeli soldiers firing open fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking aid. The evil of Israel continues every day – Peter On September 25, 2025, David McIntosh filed a report to his bosses at Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) detailing an account of Israeli soldiers gunning down a young Palestinian boy as he was getting food at a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There’s no way he survived,” McIntosh told Drop Site