Quaker and Jew Sue Beardon, a member of our meeting, has written an opinion piece for Quaker magazine ‘The Friend’, published 9th September.

“I believe as Quakers we should not fall into the easy ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ positions. As Martin Drummond himself says: ‘We were never for you, in that tribal sense. We are for peace, and truth, and justice.’ We have to extend that same attitude to Palestinians, however much we empathise with their plight. Principled impartiality is the stance of EAPPI (Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel) and is very effective.”

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For more about The Friend, visit https://thefriend.org.
For more about EAPPI, visit: https://www.eappi.org/en
For more by Sue Beardon, visit http://jfjfp.com/?p=69081
Also from Sue, read: On Being a Jew and A Quaker from ‘Quaker Voices’