Israel-Hamas war
In UK, Muslims threaten electoral damage on Labour Party over support for Israel
By Catherine Pepinster — July 1, 2024
LONDON (RNS) — A number of parliamentary seats, once considered safe bets for the Labour Party, could be lost as Muslims organize around Gaza.
LA mayor considers buffer zones at houses of worship after protest at synagogue
By Alejandra Molina — June 27, 2024
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — An ordinance regulating masks at public demonstrations, however, would not ‘withstand judicial scrutiny,' the LA mayor said.
Israel’s High Court rules Haredi men no longer exempt from mandatory military service
By Michele Chabin — June 25, 2024
JERUSALEM (RNS) — While the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students has long been an issue of contention, it has taken on new urgency since Oct. 7.
In Mecca on Eid al-Adha, carrying the burden of those lost in Gaza
By Omar Suleiman — June 16, 2024
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — In my kaffiyeh, I received prayers from random worshippers and even my taxi driver for the Palestinian people.
Muslims start the Hajj against the backdrop of the devastating Israel-Hamas war
By Samy Magdy — June 14, 2024
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — This year’s Hajj came against the backdrop of the raging war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian militants, which pushed the Middle East to the brink of a regional war between Israel and its allies on one side and Iran-backed militant groups on the other.
‘The protest is a ritual’: How faith found a place in Palestine solidarity encampments
By Chloë-Arizona Fodor — June 13, 2024
(RNS) – Over the past nine months, student-led Palestine solidarity encampments popped up at universities across the country. For many students, multi-religious programming at the encampments became unexpected sites for religious connection.
Southern Baptist resolutions on war, Oct. 7 fail logical and biblical tests
By Daoud Kuttab — June 12, 2024
(RNS) — A resolution supporting Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 failed to consider fellow Christians in the Middle East.
Netanyahu, an accused criminal at the Hague, becomes an invited guest in Washington
By Omar Suleiman — June 11, 2024
(RNS) — The fiction of a post-World War II Western rules-based, values-based world order is dead.
Protests and antisemitic incidents prompt Jewish students to reconsider college choices
By Michele Chabin — June 4, 2024
(RNS) — The ADL’s Antisemitism Report Card gives failing grades to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Michigan State,
and Northwestern, among others.
President Milei’s surprising devotion to Judaism and Israel provokes tension in Argentina and beyond
By Almudena Calatrava and Isabel Debre — June 3, 2024
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Breaking decades of policy precedent, President Javier Milei has gone further in his support of right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government than perhaps any other world leader.
At ‘Christ at the Checkpoint,’ Palestinian Christians rail against Western church’s response to war
By Daoud Kuttab — May 30, 2024
(RNS) — Attendees at a conference called for global church leaders to be held accountable for one-sided support for Israel.
A nurse honored for compassion is fired after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in speech
By Karen Matthews — May 30, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — The nurse, who is Palestinian American, was being honored for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza.
Mainline Protestant clergy are increasingly pro-Palestinian. Their congregants may not follow.
By Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin — May 29, 2024
(RNS) — Will mainline leaders be swayed by their silent pro-Israel majorities?
Christian organizations come together to take boycott, divestment action as Rafah campaign continues
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — May 29, 2024
(RNS) — ‘A core practice of nonviolent resistance, including within our tradition, is economic non-cooperation with injustice,’ the Christian organizations wrote.
Netanyahu frequently makes claims of antisemitism. Critics say he’s deflecting from his own problems
By Tia Goldenberg — May 29, 2024
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The war has reignited the long debate about the definition of antisemitism and whether any criticism of Israel amounts to anti-Jewish hate speech.
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