By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Those who commit to 'healing our broken humanity' build intercultural bridges to learn to know and understand one another and others. Readers who thumb through the Building the Bridge (BTB) pages are not mindless sheep following other mindless sheep. They THINK. They want to be at the forefront of making a difference. They're in search of the bigger picture to expand their horizons. They don't need BTB or anyone else to confirm their biases.

Making a Difference – The Means, Methods, and Mechanism for Many to Move Mountains

Accurate knowledge promotes understanding, dispels prejudice, and awakens the desire to learn more. Words have an extraordinary power to bring people together, divide them, forge bonds of friendship, or provoke hostility. Modern technology places unprecedented possibilities for good at our disposal, fostering harmony and reconciliation. Yet its misuse can do untold harm, leading to misunderstanding, prejudice, and conflict.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-this-is-the-last-phase-of-zionism

By Anealla Safdar

Published January 14, 2025

Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

https://www.islamicity.org/103854/penguins-zionism-and-the-instinct-for-survival/

By Muhammad Shahid Alam

Published January 11, 2025

Zionists have sought to delegitimize Palestinian opposition to Zionism or Jewish settler-colonialization of their lands by accusing them of antisemitism, that is, of harboring hatred for Jews as such, not because of what they had/have been doing to Palestinians.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-die-so-they-may-live-struggling-for-survival-amid-gazas-rubble/

By Donya Abu Sitta

Published January 11, 2025

Amid the rubble of Gaza, survivors recount harrowing tales of endurance, loss, and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-jimmy-carter-utopian-dove-shrewd-driver-empire

By Nazia Kazi

Published December 30, 2024

The late president's greatest success was his ability to carry out the task assigned to all US presidents: expansion of an empire for the purpose of enriching a ruling elite

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israel-cannot-lose-a-humanity-it-never-had/

By James Ray

Published January 2, 2025

A recent Haaretz editorial claimed, "Israel Is Losing Its Humanity in Gaza," but this ignores the brutal history of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, of which the Gaza genocide is just the latest chapter.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/genocide-the-new-normal

By Chris Hedges

Published January 6, 2025

Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/inside-greater-israel-myths-and-truths-behind-the-long-time-zionist-fantasy/

By Qassam Muaddi

Published December 17, 2024

The expansive territorial ambitions of creating a "Greater Israel" once seemed only to be a right-wing Zionist fantasy. Today, current events in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria show it might be closer than many ever thought possible.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/israelis-need-to-protect-the-palestinians-in-the-name-of-a-shared-future/00000193-c0a8-d80a-ad9b-f6ad32780000

By Netta Ahituv

Published December 14, 2024

The Israeli left, since October 7, has shown itself no less deserving of criticism than the global left, says the Israeli-German philosopher Omri Boehm, a universalist who advocates a one-state solution as the only way to achieve full human equality here

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/22/i-am-living-my-own-nakba

By Asem Al Jerjawi

Published December 22, 2024

I have lost my home and I feel I may be losing my homeland too.