Even if you don’t follow news from the Middle East, surely you’ve heard that last weekend, an Israeli soldier in Lebanon took a sledgehammer to the face of a life-size statue of Jesus. A collective gasp arose from Christians around the world. It was an embarrassing moment for Israel, to say the least, since especially in the US, Christians’ financial support is a significant source of revenue to the state. After the Israeli military gave the sledgehammer-wielder – and his... Read more
Take a look at these actual photos from the Democratic National Convention last August – one year ago, almost to the day. These are actual people – adults, unless I miss my guess – representing the Democratic party, sticking their fingers in their ears as they walk past a group of protesters. At least one of them is definitely making goofy noises to drown out the chants. What is the chant about? It’s about the roughly 12,000 children that had... Read more
This might take a minute, but we’ll get there. By Caitlin Johnstone, reposted from Caitlin’s Newsletter If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us.⁰ I’m not going to let that happen. pic.twitter.com/4pboBftQlO — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 13, 2025 “If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us.” The senator is correct, of course. What, do you doubt him? God clearly and explicitly commands Christians to support the modern... Read more
The vice-president of the International Court of Justice said, ‘The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel.’ How did we get here? The trial: South Africa v. Israel Julia Sebutinde, Ugandan and vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), was the only judge on a 17-member ICJ panel who voted against all six measures in the ruling in January 2024 that Israel is “plausibly” committing genocide in Gaza. Even the Israeli judge on the... Read more
Personal mental health is important. Absolutely. But how important? I’ve been polling friends and acquaintances all over the country, asking three simple questions: Q: Have you been following the news on the war in Gaza? Q: If so, where are you getting that news from – any particular network or outlet? Q: If not, why not? An answer I’ve heard quite a lot is, “I don’t really follow that news because I want to protect my mental health.” Okay, granted... Read more
Only Netanyahu’s obstinacy is keeping Israeli hostages in captivity, and the people of Gaza in a death camp. by Kathryn Shihadah, reposted from If Americans Knew According to the ceasefire agreement that Israel and Hamas signed in January, all of the living hostages would be free TODAY, April 14, 2025, and Israel’s war against Gaza would be over. Reconstruction would be underway right now. But Israel made sure this would not happen. The ceasefire agreement, first outlined in May 2024, was... Read more
A few months back, Palestinian parents in Gaza began a grim new practice: on each child’s arms and legs, they wrote the child’s name with a sharpie. They did this so that, if their children were blown apart by a bomb, their body parts could be identified. It became more and more commonplace for rescue workers to find only body parts. In some cases, bodies were completely vaporized. I’ve seen too many videos in which a weeping or screaming parent... Read more
Confirmation hearings began this week for President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. “Huckabee uses his Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing,” said one protestor at Huckabee’s hearing. Ahead of his hearing, Huckabee visited the Ohel, the New York City gravesite of the late Chabad Hasidic leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He is highly revered in some circles, although some of his teachings were profoundly problematic. For example, Schneerson said that non-Jews have “satanic souls,” and that non-Jews are... Read more
Suffer the little children The children are our future…except when they’re not. A few recent news items for your consideration. 15,613 children have been confirmed killed during Israel’s genocidal war These are named children. That is, these are the children whose corpses could be identified. Children whose parents named them, whose mothers called them by name to come to dinner. Children whose fathers tucked them in at night. Whose grandma and grandpa spoiled them. Thousands more children are still missing... Read more
GCG – Grace-Colored Glasses – took a long hiatus from Patheos. The genocide in Gaza was breaking me in pieces. The last thing I wanted to do, after six or eight hours writing about Palestine and Israel for If Americans Knew, was to spend more time writing about this horrifying situation in my husband’s homeland. I couldn’t write about anything else – I couldn’t even think about anything else. Now, not only is Palestine blowing up, but so is the... Read more
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