Hannah Redekop

On Sunday, Aaron walked toward the Israeli embassy while livestreaming himself, speaking firmly and with conviction

International law is fraying at the seams. Or more like a paper bag trying to hold water, slowly disintegrating.

I keep coming back to it when I get overwhelmed with the massacres, the political apathy, the preparations of a buffer zone in Egypt, the fact that there are zero fully functioning hospitals in Gaza, the idea of the destruction Gazans will return to when the bombing stops.

So today I pray with each stitch of my embroidery, each note of my choral score. My prayer flows through each new Arabic word I learn and into the political analysis I consume and the witness I bear. 

The court has ruled with unequivocal evidence that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and that Israel must stop the killing and incitement and increase aid.

A few months after I arrived in Colombia to start what ended up being five years with the CPT Colombia team, the 2013 AMF Futsal Women’s World Cup was held in Barrancabermeja, of all places.

I was a 19-year-old student desperate to get out of my university lectures and into the concrete day-to-day lived experiences of nonviolent movements. 

South Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the charge of genocide.

On 19 December I sang for a ceasefire and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine with over 175 Mennonites and allies at Waterloo City Hall, in Waterloo, Canada.