Linda Dayan in Haaretz über die Hintergründe…
Israel’s far-right government is advancing construction in the contentious E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim, issuing tenders for 1,200 new housing units despite decades of international opposition. Critics warn the move could divide the West Bank, sever East Jerusalem from Palestinian territory, undermine prospects for a Palestinian state and risk mass Palestinian displacement. With contracts imminent, it could soon become irreversible.
Hollow Promises: Resetting Gaza’s Ceasefire / Eine Analyse der International Crisis Group:
A July roadmap sponsored by the Board of Peace has failed to overcome obstacles that have mired Gaza’s ceasefire deal ten months on. A mix of sustained pressure and diplomatic guarantees is needed to break the logjam and centre Palestinian agency in the strip’s recovery.
Eine Würdigung von Mosche Machover von Helga Baumgarten (Junge Welt 5. August 2026)
Building Just Peace Through Co-Resistance
🗓 Wednesday, August 5, 2026 – ⏰ 1:00 PM EST | 8:00PM Jerusalem | 6:00PM London
Guest speakers include:
🌳Hanadi Hussin Sayed, Palestinian activist, researcher, author, and gender specialist whose work focuses on women’s empowerment, displacement, and the experiences of women living through and beyond conflict.
⛰️Tova Kahan, Israeli activist and Protective Presence Consortium project manager working alongside Palestinian villages under threat while helping strengthen community resilience and joint action.
🌏Dr. Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and internationally recognized organizer who has inspired movements for climate justice, systems change, and grassroots action across the globe.
🪷Moderated by Tiffany Goodwin-Van Camp, Executive Director of American Friends of Combatants for Peace.
Hear their stories, ask your questions, and be part of a conversation about the kind of leadership our world needs now. We look forward to seeing you.
Ein Essay aus der ja nicht liberal zu nennenden Times of Israel von Rossella Tercatin, der Reporterin der ToI für Archäologie und Religion. (darin auch ein Abschnitt zu Smol Emuni/Faithful Left.
Indigenous Reconstruction and Resistance
Nour Joudah und Dena Qaddumi auf der Seite von Al-Shabaka
After Hamas’s recent announcement that it will hand over governing authority in Gaza to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), urgent questions about who will shape Gaza’s future and on whose terms have reemerged. These questions are particularly salient given that the NCAG’s framework reflects the same technocratic and externally imposed logic that has come to characterize the dominant international proposal for Gaza’s reconstruction: one that treats it as a technical exercise in disaster management, sidelining Palestinian sovereignty, return, and self-determination.
In contrast, this roundtable asks what it means to understand Gaza as an Indigenous region rather than simply a besieged strip or humanitarian space. Nour Joudah and Dena Qaddumi explore how Indigenous frameworks reshape prevailing understandings of urbanism, reconstruction, and governance; why reconstruction must begin with Palestinian agency and reclamation rather than externally designed colonial master plans; and how rebuilding is already taking place through everyday forms of Indigenous endurance, social organization, and spatial resistance under conditions of ongoing genocide.
This roundtable is adapted from a conversation recorded on May 21, 2026. It has been edited for publication.
NIF – Voices from the West Bank:
Monday, July 20, 2026 – 12 PM ET | 11 AM CT | 9 AM PT
Virtual—Zoom link provided upon Registration
Settler violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank is exploding, but our partners on the ground are pushing back and scaling up efforts to fight creeping annexation. Join us to hear from those who are working on the ground to coordinate protective presence activism and to stand with those whose lives have been turned upside down by recent attacks. In conversation with NIF’s Director of National Programs, Hillel Assaf, activists will share what they’ve witnessed, what they’ve learned from their Palestinian partners, and how you can support this crucial work.
13. Juli 2026: Anglikanische Kirche „votes to ‘hear’ document that speaks of ‘genocidal war on Gaza’
Bericht Independent Catholic News
„Despite all the pressure and intense lobbying before the debate, the motion passed with an overwhelming majority in all three houses, with 25 Bishops voting in favour, none against, and five abstaining.“
The final motion read:
That this Synod respond to the call of Palestinian Christians to stand in solidarity with them and their fellow Palestinians in non-violent resistance to the ongoing occupation. We lament the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives and the violations of human dignity and rights on both sides, as well as the displacement of population. We commit to a better understanding of the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, seeking peace and security for all the peoples of those lands and pursuing that which leads to the establishment of a just and lasting peace.
In particular, we:
a) reject antisemitism, anti-Muslim hostility and all forms of prejudice based on religious affiliation and ethnicity;
b) acknowledge with repentance the Church’s historic contribution to antisemitism and to the situation now affecting the Palestinian people, reaffirm our commitment to inter-faith dialogue, including Christian-Jewish dialogue and encourage a deeper understanding of Judaism and other faiths;
c) pray for all victims of the current conflicts in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and for a lasting peace;
d) hear the Kairos Palestine Declaration (2009), the Cry for Hope (2020), the Call for Repentance (2023) and Kairos Palestine II (2025) as heartfelt expressions of the lived experience of Palestinian Christians and:
i. encourage the Church of England at all levels to engage with those documents as part of a quest for greater understanding of the situation;
ii. ask the Faith and Public Life Division to commend resources that enable Dioceses and local churches to promote a full understanding of the situation and to respond through prayer, theological study, advocacy and practical support for the work undertaken by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and other Churches in the service of the people of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory;
e) encourage the Church of England at all levels to engage with those documents as part of a quest for greater understanding of the situation, alongside continued dialogue with Jewish and Muslim voices in the pursuit of justice, equality, peace and reconciliation;
f) call on Church investors to implement and demonstrate a leading approach to responsible investment relating to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and:
i. to review their investment policies in the light of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 on the illegality of the occupation of Palestinian territory;
ii. to request the Church Commissioners and Church of England Pensions Board to report back, on a triennium basis, on the progress and success of their approaches;
iii. the bodies named above to support the EIAG to develop guidance for wider Church of England investors on how to manage human rights risks relating to occupied territories and conflict.
g) ask His Majesty’s Government to work urgently for a lasting peace in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, that will ensure safety and security for all parties and the upholding of the rights and inherent dignity of all people.’
Zur Tagung der EU-Außenminister am 13, Juli – Eine Betrachtung von Muriel Asseburg & Martin Konečný auf der Seite IPG-Journal
Im Podcast von +972mag spricht Eyal Weizman über eine neue Dimension dessen, was im Gazastreifen geschieht: Nicht sprachlos werden, auch wenn einem dieser Gedanke kommen kann…
