#christians for palestine

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Attention Christians - THIS is what Jesus would do. Put his body on the line, speak truth to power, and demand justice for the starving and oppressed. 🙌

Thank you, @christiansforafreepalestine, for being an example of true decency and faith in action.

“Our scriptures say ‘woe to you, who eat while others go hungry!” they called out to senate staff.

Saying “Congress won’t eat until Gaza eats,” over 60 Christians from across the U.S. are nonviolently blockading the Senate Cafeteria to pressure the Senate and their staffers to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, restore aid to UNRWA, and end military funding to Israel. #CFPAction

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #human rights #christianity #christians for palestine #free gaza #israel #unrwa #activism #ceasefire #ceasefire now #Christian #faith #jesus christ #us congress #us complicity #us politics #us government

[violottie]

"SEND FOOD NOT BOMBS!

"Today we joined Christians For A Free Palestine's powerful action to disrupt Congress’s lunch in solidarity with Gaza. They are demanding Congress stops arming Israel, restores UNRWA funding, and calls for a lasting ceasefire. Over 50 people were arrested." from CodePink, 10/Apr/2024:

#these christians are doing what Jesus would be doing. frfr. idk whats going on about the rest of yall #christians for palestine #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #human rights #social justice #keep talking about palestine #dont stop talking about palestine #what would jesus do

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

“How would that carpenter and his pregnant wife have circumnavigated the Kafka­esque network of Israeli settlements, roadblocks and closed military zones in the occupied West Bank? Would Mary have had to experience labor or childbirth at a checkpoint, as one in 10 pregnant Palestinian women did between 2000 and 2007?... ‘If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed,’ declared Father Ibrahim Shomali, a Catholic priest of the city’s Beit Jala parish, in December 2011. ‘Mary and Joseph would have needed Israeli permission – or to have been tourists.’"

- Medhi Hasan, 2014

Click here for this poem in shareable text form, plus more reflection, images, & information.

#bethlehem #christians for palestine #advent #advent 2023 #nativity #my poetry #palestine #separation wall

[a-queer-seminarian]

O come, o come compassionate Divine, And ransom captive Palestine That mourns with tears that will not be soothed Till empires fall and nations’ hearts are moved. Rejoice! Rejoice! God’s justice is at hand To liberate the people and the land.

O come, o bright and ever-burning star; Bring Gaza comfort from afar! Dispel from her the shadow of death That murders dignity and chokes out breath.

Rejoice! Rejoice! God’s justice is at hand To liberate the people and the land.

O come, o Wisdom from on high, Take up the outcast’s cause, the captive’s cry. Guide us to build your kingdom on earth Where all faiths flourish, and the last are first.

Rejoice! Rejoice! God’s justice is at hand To liberate the people and the land.

O come, o King of Peace and Justice, break All weapons down, and from them ploughshares make. Let all tears dry, all peoples respond: “We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

Rejoice! Rejoice! God’s justice is at hand To liberate the people and the land.

#advent 2023 #advent #hymns #o come o come emmanuel #hymn revision #palestine #christians for palestine #my poetry #log #fall 2023

[many-sparrows]

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this from @jspark3000 , a hospital chaplain in Florida. He sums it up so perfectly.

People are dying and you are asking me to look away. People are dying and you are telling me that it's just too complicated for you to have an opinion on. People are dying and they are being called animals. People are dying and you are telling me that the Bible justifies the state of israel, actually, so it's fine.

I hold so much grief and pain and compassion for Israeli citizens now living in fear. I share anxiety and prayers and hope for hostages, and grief for innocent people who were massacred. But I cannot do that and then ignore the plight of Palestine. Not when people have been crying out in pain for decades. Not when a child dies every fifteen minutes. Not when families are being eradicated and settler violence is escalating without recourse. For the same reason that I grieve the victims of Hamas, I must side against the state of Israel and its history of oppression and violence!

I go to the wounded! I go to those fighting to survive! I go to those facing oppression!! I have no other choice! The Bible tells me to listen to those in pain, no matter who they are, and that means that I can hold compassion and dignity for people all over different parts of this conflict, while still understanding the inequity at play. When there is so, so much suffering and anguish, I cannot look away, no matter how much easier that would be! Acts 20:27 refuses to let us shrink away from the FULL council of God, no matter how difficult it becomes!

As long as I am alive, I must go to the wounded and the weeping. I go to my Christian siblings who are being persecuted in ways that most born and bread American Christians can't fathom. I have committed myself to peace making, different than peace keeping, and I cannot abandon that! Some analysts project that when this is all over, there will be no more Christians left in Gaza. I have no other option than to hold the people of Palestine and to continue to see them.

To follow this faith, you must have courage. Not only to do difficult things, but to challenge difficult thoughts. To engage in difficult conversations. To abandon neutrality when it is a tool of oppression. To hold complex realities without abandoning those who need you. To extend compassion and mercy farther than you can imagine possible. To listen when people cry out.

I go to the wounded, because I do not have the option not to. Palestine, you will never, ever walk alone. 🇵🇸

#dont “its too complicated” me #go get educated #it is difficult and complex to be sure #but the mass slaughter and deprevation of a people group is WRONG and that is simple #free Palestine #Christians for Palestine #palestinian christians #arab christians #christians pray for palestine #israel #israel Palestine war #acts 20:27 #godblr #theology #religion #autumn preaches #liberation theology #christianity #palestine

[nappingpaperclip]

PLEASE REPOST ♥️

CALL TO ACTION:

Write in or vote “uncommitted” at your state’s primaries

Even if you plan on voting for Biden or don’t plan on voting at all, please join me in writing in/declaring yourself “uncommitted” at local caucuses or upcoming primary in protest of Biden’s participation in genocide.

“None of us want Trump to win, which is exactly why we’re doing this. This is the only way that we can raise the flags to Democrats that you are going to lose unless you call for an ultimate ceasefire” -Gabriela Santiago-Romero of the Detroit City Council

This does NOT mean that you cannot vote for Biden in November.

All it means is that you are telling the DNC that you are not yet committed to Biden for his role in genocide!

Please spread the word to your friends & family both irl and on social media. You can also help out by handing out flyers or creating posters for the “uncommitted” campaign at your local polling place on the day of your primary.

Primary & caucus dates:

#vote Biden #Genocide Joe #Joe Biden #us politics #Palestine #Free Palestine #Free Gaza #strike for palestine #strike for gaza #jews for palestine #jews for ceasefire #jews for peace #christians for palestine #muslims for Palestine #catholic #Gaza #genocide #stop the genocide #.txt #vote blue no matter who #vote blue #us primaries #caucuses #caucus #uncommitted #uncommitted movement #Instagram #primaries

[queerwordofgod]

i don’t know how to explain to you that if Jesus were to return right now He’d walk miles barefoot to Gaza through the rubble and pull every child there into His arms

#free palestine #christians for palestine #Christian

[chelledoggo]

please don't mistake American evangelical Zionism for solidarity with Jewish folks.

the majority of American conservative evangelicals are anti-Semitic to at least some degree. like... even the ones who don't outright hate Jewish folks will still tie them into conspiracy theories or believe they need to "come to Jesus."

conservative "Christians" only really care about Israel because they think that, according to the book of Revelations, if it's secured as a state it means Jesus will come back.

it's not about respecting Jewish folks. it's about fulfilling a "prophecy" which was never actually written to be a forecast of the future and was more of an epic tale to inspire oppressed Christians under Rome at the time of its writing.

(something something my ted talk)

#palestine #israel #zionism #antisemitism #evangelicalism #progressive christianity #christians for palestine #religion cw #politics cw

[claypuppingtonismybiggestopp]

glory to the martyrs, victory for the fighters

#free palestine #palestine #palestine genocide #end apartheid #israel is a terrorist state #save the palestinians #free the holy land #free gaza #christians for palestine

[belleandre-belle]

"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela🇿🇦🇵🇸

#nelson mandela #madiba #rip #south africa #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #israeli apartheid #stop the genocide #stop the war #jewsforpalestine #christians for palestine

[anglocatholicboyo]

Queer people, specially Queer Jews, do not tokenise *themselves* when they speak up in favour of the Palestinian cause - they do so because pro-Israeli talking points weaponise them to justify the evil which the Israeli Armed Forces commits.

It is the pro-Israeli side which brought these questions of identity into this, by claiming the exclusive right to represent Queers and Jews alike. To be pro-Palestinian is not about Palestinian Arabs *per se*, it's about standing up for the oppressed.

#anglican #christians for palestine #free palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #queers for palestine #palestine #free gaza

[prodigalsam]

i come bearing more links to contact representatives if you have not already. i know my platform on here isn't big, but it's the best way for me to get my words out!

here is a list of the house of representatives by name/state/their role and their phone numbers

an easy way to email your congressmen, taking about ten seconds

as above for the UK

as above for canada

#all eyes on rafah #freepalastine🇵🇸 #stop genocide #palestine resources #pray for palestine #lent 2024 #christians for palestine #silence is complicity #current events #war crimes #fuck israel

[sayruq]

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #christmas #christians #christianity #jesus christ #genocide

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Many thanks to my friend, the Rev. Ainsley Herrick, for creating this video of my revision of "O Come O Come Emmanuel" to center Palestine's plight.

For more on my revision, visit this webpage.

#o come o come emmanuel #palestine #christians for palestine #advent #advent 2023 #Youtube

[a-queer-seminarian]

Living Lent for Palestine

[Find this post in video form over on tiktok or on Instagram.]

We’re about two weeks into Lent — time for a friendly reminder that if you haven’t been observing it the way you meant to, it’s not too late to commit or recommit! There’s still several weeks of Lent to go!

In that spirit, I want to offer some ideas for using this holy time to lean into solidarity with Palestine.

Every single time I think about Lent this year — how it’s a time to remember all Jesus risked and lost out of solidarity with the oppressed; a time to strip our own lives of things that don’t give it meaning or bear good fruit ­— all I can think of is Palestine. How our excess here in the West fuels and is fueled by their lack.

So here are some ideas for observing Lent by sharing some of your Enough with Gazans who have been denied Enough:

Sharing Extra Resources

Not everyone does or should fast in the traditional sense of restricting food, but if you do, you can do some math, figure out how much money you’re saving from having fewer meals, and donate that to Palestine. Maybe that’s only a few bucks a week — but a few bucks is enough to buy an esim for Gaza that will last someone a week.

Maybe you, like me, don’t fast from food, but could fast from something else. Maybe you can fast from eating out, or from a tv streaming service, and you can share that saved money with Gaza.

Along with e-sims, here's another place to give money.

Sharing Time & Culture

What about sharing some of your time? Maybe you spend your evenings or days off watching tv or reading — what if you trade out some of those shows or books with Palestinian shows and books? Bonus points if you get friends, family, or a church group to read or watch with you!

Here's a list of Palestinian shows & films to check out

And some books, including free ones!

One great option for Lent, if you like poetry, is Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish

Find even more options (as well as more ways to learn & get active) in this masterpost

Getting Active

You can also share your time and energy by finding a protest or vigil for Palestine near you;

painting a sign to hang in your window;

or printing out zines/booklets of information about Palestine to leave at your church, or in a local little free library, or to pass among friends.

Put a little handbook together yourself, or visit publishersforpalestine.org for a short book of poems and action plans that’s free to print and share.

Spirituality

Finally, pray for Palestine!

Uplift Gaza during the time for prayer requests during church.

As you read the Bible, think of how what you read applies to Palestine.

Invite your friends of faith to join you in fasting or praying for Gaza!

...Or think up another way to share your resources, time, energy, and spirit with Palestine this Lent. I’d love to hear what you think up!

#christians for palestine #lent #lent 2024

[3ternal-sl33p]

#code pink #christianity #free palestine 🇵🇸 #christians for palestine