Speaking Up For Ali:
Considering Identity in the face of Palestinian statehood

FODIP’s Director Jane Clements reflects on identity, British Muslim communities and the issue of Palestinian statehood in the context of Caryl Phillips’ ‘Colour Me English’.

Are recent church documents on Israel and Palestine further examples of how we fail to communicate with each other?

Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, critiques the language of several recent statements in this paper delivered recently at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge.

Vatican Meeting calls on Israel to end West bank occupation
(From Ecumenical News international)

A new youth-led dawn in the Middle East?
by Farah I. Abdel Sater

When Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse wrote their 1965 song "Feeling Good", odds were pretty close to zero that the couple could imagine that this is what young Arab citizens 46 years later would be feeling - and in many places singing, thinking or shouting - in reaction to Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution".

With over a million Egyptians crowding Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square today demanding that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resign, it is hard not to wonder if in fact this new dawn is breaking.......

A little injustice:
We won't solve the Hebron problems by denying Jewish roots ...
by Jane Clements

No Going Back
Precis of the article in Letters to Pope Benedict XV1
by Jane Clements

Choosing words carefully
There is one important fundamental about truth:
Genuine truth gives one the power to tolerate even the most heinous criticism.
Ray Hanania

Notes of Rob Malley talk (pdf)

The sorrow and hope of Abraham:
Public hope and memory in the Holy Land
The flare-up over the Israeli government's decision to put Rachel's Tomb along with....
Daniel Noah Moses

Why religion is part of the solution to the Arab Israeli conflict.
It is frequently asserted that bringing religion into the Arab-Israeli conflict...
By Dr Ben Molov

The upside of Acre :
Mike Prashker / Common Ground

Jerusalem Divided:
A Time magazine article referenced by the Interreligious Coordinating Council of Israel / 21st Nov. 2007

A Place and a Name :
Fr Luis Rodriguez reflects on a visit to Yad Vashem / May 2007

After School: A chance to study face to face
As students in Israel and Palestine - as elsewhere begin a new academic year...
By Joshua M. Z. Stanton

Herd of Elephants: A new strategy for the Middle East
A different view of Israel (and a Future Palestine?)...
By Joshua M. Z. Stanton

Can Muslim & Jewish narratives co-exist?
In his book, Longitudes and Attitudes (2002) Journalist Thomas Friedman...
by Deborah Weissmann