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Recent Posts
- No Blue Sky Between Republicans and Democrats on Israel
- Peace for Israelis, Liberation for Palestinians: Bringing the New Jerusalem
- The Uprooted and Unwanted: A Sermon for Yom Kippur
- The German church and the Palestinian call: A church challenged, Part 1
- The Politics of Hope: One Jew’s Journey from Philadelphia, to Palestine, and Back
- Footnotes in Gaza — The Power of Memory
- Gaza, 2014: Telling the Truth About Israel
- BDS the End of Israel? A Jewish and Presbyterian Response to Rabbi Marans
- Tent of Nations Orchard Destruction and Pentecost Reflections
- Passover Message
- The Two State Illusion, Racism in Israel, and Jewish Hubris
- Talking about Israel at the Greenbelt Festival in the UK – a Yom Kippur Meditation
- Will Israel’s tent protesters awaken to the tents that came before theirs?
- My visit to South Africa, part 2: A Moment of Truth for the U.S. Church
- My visit to South Africa Part 1: A confessing church,1985-2011
- Bursting the Bubble of “Liberal Zionism”
- Two Voices from Israel
- Peace, peace, and there is no peace
- Report from the Presbyterian General Assembly – Part 2, The Jewish Response
- Report from the Presbyterian General Assembly – Part 1
- Signs of Hope from the American Jewish Community
- Challenging the Law of Return, and an important new book
- Jerusalem 2009: The Light in the Tent
- Rededicating the Temple – A Hanukah Homily
- The Politics of Hope
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Links & Blogroll
- Anna in the middle east Jewish American woman who describes the occupation with clarity and compassion.
- Australians for Palestine Exceptionally well-done and comprehensive site. Constantly updated with current articles.
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Everything you need to know about the BDS movement.
- Christian Peacemaker Teams CPT works in villages in the southern hills of the West Bank where inhabitants are subject to harassment and violence by Jewish settlers.
- Electronic Intifada Independent publication committed to education on the economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of the occupation.
- Friends of Tent of Nations North America A Palestinian family holding on to their land and working for peace and coexistence.
- Interfaith Peace Builders Sends delegations to Israel/ Palestine so that U.S. citizens can see the conflict with their own eyes and connect with Israeli and Palestinian nonviolent human rights activists.
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Non-violent, direct-action group resisting Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories.
- Jewish Voice for Peace JVP seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; a just solution for Palestinian refugees, and promotes various forms of direct nonvio
- Kairos Britain British Christians’ prophetic, courageous, intelligent response to the call of the Palestinian Christians
- Kairos Palestine Christian Palestinians’ word to the world about what is happening in Palestine, and a call to the churches. Download “Moment of Truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering.”
- Kairos Southern Africa Launched on 9 March 2011 to carry forward the legacy of Kairos theology in Southern Africa. Download the seminal 1985 “Challenge to the church” which helped bring about the end of Apartheid.
- Kairos USA A movement to unify and mobilize American Christians to take a prophetic stance for a just peace in Israel and Palestine. Download “Call to Action: U.S. Response to Kairos Palestine.”
- Machsom Watch Israeli women monitoring human rights by stationing themselves at the Israeli checkpoints restricting movement of Palestinians.
- Micah's Paradigm Shift Calling his blog “Israel-Palestine from a UK Jewish perspective,” British Jew Robert Cohen sets about “rescuing the Hebrew covenant one blog post at a time.”
- Middle East Experience Open-source forum for all the varied voices from today’s Middle East: Sunni and Shia Muslim, Christian, Jewish, religious and non-religious.
- Miko Peled The son of an Israeli general calls for the establishment of a liberal democracy in Palestine in which Jews and Palestinians live as equals in a shared homeland.
- Mondoweiss News website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.
- Rabbi Brant Rosen A courageous Rabbi in Evanston IL writes about human rights in Israel, Palestine and elsewhere. Don’t miss getting to know Brant.
- Rabbi Brian Walt Former director of Rabbis for Human Rights North America, now living in Israel. A strong, courageous voice for justice.
- Wall Writings Jim Wall, retired Methodist minister, political activist, and a compassionate, incisive, intelligent voice for justice and a sane U.S. policy.
- Zochrot Israeli citizens educating Israelis and internationals about the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.
About Mark
Trained in clinical psychology and crisis management, Mark Braverman devoted his professional career to working with groups and individuals undergoing traumatic stress. Returning to the Holy Land in 2006, he was transformed by witnessing the occupation of Palestine and by encounters with peace activists and civil society leaders from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities. He is the author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land and A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine..
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