Hostetter is Director of the office that the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) maintains at the United Nations. He has been a peacemaker since the mid-1960s– a time when, as a …
Pumpkin Stew: Recipe from new edition of ‘The Gaza Kitchen’
This recipe is a new addition to the new edition of the award-winning Gaza Kitchen cookbook by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt. Learn more about The Gaza Kitchen on the …
Our new project: “Palestinian Milestones 2017”
2017 will see many anniversaries of great importance for the Palestine Question. The one that comes on June 6, marking the 50th anniversary of the start of Israel’s military occupation …
Photographer of “Lens on Syria”: Negotiated peace needed, to save remaining heritage
by Daniel Demeter California resident Daniel Demeter is the author of Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of its Ancient and Modern Culture, published in September 2016 by Just World …
Richard Falk on the Geopolitics of Shimon Peres’ Legacy
(Editor’s note: This is a slightly adapted version of a blog post that Prof. Falk first published at his own blog, Global Justice in the 21st Century, on October 6. …
Hamas, the HLF, Terror? A Concoted Connection
by Miko Peled Miko Peled, the author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, is now working on a book about the plight of the Holy Land …
D. Demeter shares photos, stories, from pre-war Syria at George Washington U.
On September 22 Daniel Demeter, author of the stunning new photography book Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of its Ancient and Modern Culture, shared some of the lovely images …
Abdication of their role by U.S. judges in Holy Land Five case
By Miko Peled In the United States, the campaign to accuse legitimate charity organizations that worked to support needy Palestinians of “funding terrorism” required collusion between the legislative and executive …
Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Benghazi Mis-step
Hillary Clinton has been dogged since May 2014 by the House Select Committee examining her responsibility for the killings of four U.S. diplomatic personnel in Benghazi in September 2012. But …