BDS is key to a just peace

BDS key to a "just peace," says Palestinian Christian boycott activist

3 October 2012

“Kairos Palestine addresses all Christians in the world, asking them to stand against injustice embodied in Israel’s multi-formed oppression of Palestinians, Christians and Muslims,” he said.

Kassis also stresses unity between Christian and Muslim Palestinians, a topic he has researched extensively. “In 2008, two colleagues and I conducted a study,” he said. “We found that the main reason for Christian emigration was the lack of political stability (around 35 percent) and the very least significant reason was religious persecution and discrimination (less than 0.8 percent). Muslim-Christian relations were strong and solid for the last 1,500 years” (“Palestinian Christians: Facts, Figures and Trends,” Diyar, 2008 [PDF]).

A letter from Thaer Halahleh to his daughter

A letter from Thaer Halahleh, on day 75 of hunger strike against his
detention without charge, to his two-year-old daughter Lamar, who he
has never seen. Translated by Jalal Najjar.

"My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from
you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my first born
child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy
with. It is not your fault, this is our destiny as Palestinian people
to have our lives and the lives of our children taken away from us, to
be apart from each other and to have a miserable life, nothing is
complete in our lives because of this unjust occupation that is
lurking on every corner of our lives turning it into eeriness, a
continuous pursuit and torture. Despite that I was deprived from
holding you and hearing your voice, from watching you grow up and move
around in the house and in your be, and that I was deprived of my rule