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Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy by Ben White Janan Abdu is a Palestinian social and feminist campaigner and researcher. Her husband Ameer Makhoul is also a human rights activist on behalf of Palestinians living in Israel; imprisoned, it is feared the motive for his detainment is that he challenges the marginalisation of Palestinian citizens of Israel. In an…

Resurrection of Peace: a gospel journey to Easter and beyond by Mary Grey Mary Grey’s book is a unique mixture of travelogue, Biblical exposition and political commentary on the injustices being visited on the Palestinian people through occupation and oppression. With explorations of Christian themes such as redemption, atonement and resurrection skilfully blended through an imaginary Lenten pilgrimage with acute…

Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity by Rabbi Brant Rosen This is a book well worth reading (and passing on to others). It consists of a series of brief opinion pieces that Rosen put on his blog, starting with his anguished response to the killing of more than 225 people in Gaza in the Israeli military…

Challenging Empire: God, Faithfulness and Resistance eds., Naim Ateek, Cedar Duaybis and Maureen Tobin, (Jerusalem: Sabeel Ecumenical Centre 2012). Price £12, pp.221. (Available from Friends of Sabeel UK: email ) For those Sabeel members who gathered in Bethlehem, February 2011, for the 8th International Sabeel Conference, this book has been eagerly anticipated: not only does it recall the heady excitement of…

Fatal Embrace by Mark Braverman: Christians, Jews and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land In reading this intensely personal book by an American Jew with deep family roots in the Holy Land, I was reminded of another Jew, Jacob Lipchitz, whose statue – Descent of the Spirit – stands in the cloisters of the Abbey Church on Iona.…