The Gaza genocide continues The genocidal assault on Gaza by Israel continues. Israel has outmatched the Hamas inspired atrocities of the 7th October 26-fold with the killing of over 31,000 children, women, and men. Homes, schools, and clinics have been destroyed. Much of Gaza is a waste land. People desperate for food have been shot …
National Demonstration for Freedom and Peace for Palestine
I draw your attention to the national demonstration for Palestine that will take place tomorrow (Saturday 17th February 2024). Together with many other human rights organisations Kairos Ireland is endorsing this demonstration. An urgent appeal from Kairos Palestine I also give you the link to an urgent appeal from Kairos Palestine, representing Palestinian Christians, calling …
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Kairos Ireland – Spring newsletter 2024
Introduction According to the Irish Calander Spring has arrived and the first early flowers are beginning to bloom. Sadly, in Gaza the genocidal assault of Israel continues to bring death, destruction and misery to people who have no safe place to shelter. UNOCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) issues daily bulletins …
Christmas Alert 2023
This year Christmas celebrations have been cancelled in Bethlehem. Munther Ishaq, the pastor of the Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, describes why there is no Christmas tree in the Lutheran Church. In the place where the tree usually stands the baby Jesus is surrounded by rubble. The characters from the Nativity stories, Magi and shepherds, …
Kairos Ireland All Hallows 2023 – Responses to the war on Gaza
One wonders what level of killing must occur before Western political leaders in North America, the EU and UK call for a ceasefire to end the barbaric assault on Gaza. Yesterday (31st October) OCHA (The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) reported that the death toll in Gaza since the Hamas attack …
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Kairos Ireland Autumn 2023 – Violence and Apartheid
As I write this newsletter a major flareup of violence is taking place in Israel and Gaza. There has been indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel. Hundreds and hundreds of Israeli civilians have been brutally killed or kidnapped in clear disregard for human rights by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Israeli's doctrine of "disproportionate retaliation" …
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Remembering the Nabka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd--XZIEmAY Many thanks to our webinar participants. We had a wide range of contributions over 90 mins which you can re-watch above. Contributions included An illustrated introduction to the first Nakba Family experience of dispossession by Asad Abu Sharkh. Eyewitness accounts of the ongoing Nakba in the South Hebron Hills and Hebron by returned Irish …
Kairos Ireland Newsletter – Eastertide 2023
Palestinian refugees on the road to Lebanon, among many thousands, who were forced out of their homes in May 1948 before the establishment of the state of Israel. This was called ‘ethnic cleansing’ some fifty years later by historians when they were denied the right to return home. Remembering Nakba webinar - Monday 15th May …
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Remembering the Nakba – the 1948 Palestinian catastrophe
Palestinian refugees on the road to Lebanon, among many thousands, who were forced out of their homes in May 1948 before the establishment of the state of Israel. This was called ‘ethnic cleansing’ some fifty years later by historians when they were denied the right to return home. 75 years ago, 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically …
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Kairos Ireland Newsletter – Feb 2023
A lurch further to the right The recently installed Israeli administration headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is a further blow to any prospect for peace in the Middle East. Prime minister Netanyahu set out the objectives of his government in a tweet which reads, "These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: …
