A message from Tommy Airey, co-founder of RadicalDiscipleship.net

This is not a famine. This is forced starvation.

The most faithful thing radical disciples can do is publicly call out Israeli and US leaders for what they have intentionally been doing to Palestinians for decades. We should call out our pastors and priests too – whenever they support it with their sermons, or their silence.

When Jesus prayed “give us each day our daily bread,” he was teaching his disciples to live in solidarity with the slaves who escaped from Egypt, trusting that God would sustain them by sending manna in the wilderness.

The first Christians learned to live on just enough so there would be enough for everyone else to live too. Their personal faith was inextricably connected to collective liberation.

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Over the past eighteen months, I’ve been organizing with a collective of Palestinian Christians – and a few allies – who are committed to the love, compassion, truth and justice of Jesus. We are connecting the dots and telling the truth about how Western Christian dogma dehumanizes Palestinians.

Our collective is strategizing to subvert the destructive biblical and theological underpinnings of an overwhelming number of evangelical, protestant and catholic churches in North America that support Israeli apartheid and gen0cide – in the name of Christ.

We are inviting friends in the Christian fold – and those who are Jesus-adjacent – to join us for a 40-day prayer vigil, starting this Saturday (8/2).

Some of us will fast on different days. Some of us will intercede for Palestine at a certain time each day. Some of us will take in fewer calories, in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings in Gaza. All of us will pray, whenever we feel our own hunger pangs.

We are bonding together for forty days to pray for an end to this forced starvation – and for a free Palestine. We are committed to doing whatever we can to stop this gen0cide and inaugurate a new chapter in “the holy land,” where Palestinians are not only protected and affirmed, but empowered to lead.

As the sacred text says, faith without action is dead. Our hope is that our prayers to a Love supreme will conceive unprecedented levels of spiritual depth, moral clarity and political courage that will give birth to a whole new world. If you feel compelled, click on this link and join us.