The Report: Mark Braverman interview -- Bonhoeffer & the Jews; Roger Waters inspires solidarity with Palestine

UPCOMING INTERVIEW

Hosted by Kairos USA & Indiana Center for Middle East Peace

Co-sponsors: ICAHD-USA, FOSNA, MennoPIN, UCC-PIN, United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR) Dr. Michael Spath interviews Kairos USA Executive Director, Mark Braverman. They’ll be discussing Mark’s recent article, “Theology in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Revisiting Bonhoeffer and the Jews.” His thesis: "the focus on anti-Judaism by Christian theologians in the post WWII era has led the church away from confronting difficult truths about the nature of Christian identity and teaching. With respect to the question of Israel and the Palestinians, it has brought the church, to its peril, to the embrace of apartheid in our time." This bending of post-holocaust Christian theology toward triumphalism has shaped liberal Christian Zionism and the church’s attitude toward Palestine and Israel.

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A recent J Street critique of AIPAC encapsulates the moral bankruptcy of liberal Zionism.

'NYT' and UN Security Council platform apartheid charge against Israel

Influential Jewish organizations who denounce as antisemitic the reports accusing Israel of apartheid are a 'threat to freedom,' Peter Beinart writes in the New York Times.

Google worker who protested Israel contract says she was forced to quit

Former Google employee Ariel Koren says the company has ‘sustained a culture of silencing anti-Zionist Jews and creating toxic and unjust conditions for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim workers.’

Roger Waters' inspired tour is cultural high point for Palestine

A few years ago it felt like Roger Waters might be blacklisted over his support for Palestine. But this summer he is filling stadiums around the country talking about Palestinian liberation.” CALL TO ACTION Hundreds of Palestinians are on the verge of being kicked out of their homes by the Israeli government right now in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem. Please sign this petition (https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-to-call-on-the-us-state-department-and-department-of-defense-demand-an-end-to-israels-forced-displacement-of-palestinians-from-east-jerusalem) to call on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to uphold international law and demand an end to Israel’s illegal evictions of Palestinians, demolitions of Palestinian homes, and theft of Palestinian land. Thank you for your continuing support