Vigils Debated in Arab American News Article Two weeks ago we reported that the Washtenaw Jewish News published, in their March edition, the opinion of Imam Dawud Walid that our vigils are “Un-Islamic”. Arab American News reporter Nick Meyer followed up with a short phone interview with this writer, and assembled an informative “dialogue” [...]

  Heard on the Road Mazin Qumsiyeh, Professor at Bethlehem University, gave an excellent presentation this week on non-violent resistance in Palestine, and documented a full history of non-violent actions from 1939 onward. He noted that after the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 (al-Nakba), that orders were given to shoot Palestinians attempting to return to [...]

JWPF Invites City Council to Forum Vigiler S took to the podium last Monday to invite Ann Arbor City Council members to our Open Forum on March 29th. From Thursday’s Ann Arbor Chronicle we read: S told the council he’d been working a long time against the genocide of the Palestinian people, which he said [...]

Uncomfortable Bedfellows Last fall we reported on a visit to Central Michigan University campus to hear Shirley Phelps-Roper speak about Westboro Baptist Church, and their reliance on the Constitution’s First Amendment to have their views heard. And though their issues and those of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends are different, there is a commonality [...]