Here are your weekly Peace Links!  Lots of news coming in this week – violence in South Sudan, tension in Israel, and more.

I already tweeted this on Tuesday, but I think it is important news that I haven’t heard much about (too busy covering the GOP contest no doubt!).  Here’s the gist: “…the world’s newest nation is grappling with a virus of tribal violence.” Read the rest of Sudarsan Raghavan’s report at The Washington Post.

And here is another story we’ve been following – tension in Israel between religious and …

By Patricia Smith
Founder, Peace X Peace
Editor, Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Israeli and Palestinian Women
“I am almost daily stunned by the gap between what is in our media and, thus, in some of our attitudes, and the truth.”
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Newt Gingrich is a phenomenon that baffles and stuns me.  I was willing to let it slide and trust the American people to see and reject his hypocrisy, financial and ethical wrongdoing, megalomania, and opportunistic deception.  Last week, however, he overstepped my patience when he referred to Palestinians as an “invented people” …

Connection Point Manager Yasmina Mrabet interviews Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Palestinian art photographer, curator, and art for social change enthusiast.
What sparked your interest in art for social change?
As an undergraduate at George Mason University I took a course on Art as Social Action, and was able to shape my degree around this idea. My courses involved reflecting on how artists speak about topics including race, class, gender and environment. One of the projects that influenced me was related to the role of photography in media and propaganda, and how it can be a …

Nora Lester Murad
Jerusalem/Palestine

“Even well-meaning individuals sometimes fail to ‘get’ how certain ways of giving can entrench rather than challenge the power imbalance between givers and receivers.”

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Palestinian women sometimes respond to international feminist critiques with a rhetorical question: “Why would I want equal rights with my husband when he has no rights?” It is a provocative question. It is based on a belief that is common in Palestine and elsewhere: Women’s struggles are intimately intertwined with struggles for national self-determination, human rights for all, and peace.
Dalia Association approaches self-determination …