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.middleeastmonitor.com/20251101-the-eternal-zionist-contempt-for-agreements-and-peace/

By Sayid Marcos Tenorio

published November 1, 2025

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/jewish-communities-must-confront-their-complicity-israels-genocide

By Antony Loewenstein

Published November 13, 2025

After more than two years of war, Jewish support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza requires accountability, moral clarity, and an urgent reckoning across Israel and the Diaspora

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/who-is-ready-to-die-for-trumps-gaza-plan-so-far-nobody/

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies

Published November 21, 2025

We shall see in the coming days whether the corrupt governments that hope to profit from the genocide in Gaza will send their own troops to fight the Palestinian Resistance.

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11-03/islam-vs-west-four-fallacies/

By Jonathan Cook

Published November 3, 2025

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/16/israel-cant-fly-us-all-out-to-south-africa

By Refaat Ibrahim

Published November 16, 2025

The paid forced deportation flights are the latest Israeli scheme in a long history of failed ethnic cleansing efforts.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/how-zionism-and-its-traditional-relationship-to-antisemitism-is-playing-out-today/

By Tony Greenstein

Published November 15, 2025

Given that antisemitism in the West has declined almost to the vanishing point, and arguably only exists because the Zionist movement associates Jews with Israel’s genocide, they can live with those contradictions.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-11-04/ty-article/.premium/peace-and-war-trumps-gaza-plan-will-either-move-ahead-soon-or-die/0000019a-4f87-df58-ad9e-df9f56d00000

By Amir Tibon

Published November 4, 2025

The U.S. administration seems serious about moving towards the next phases of the Israel/Hamas cease-fire deal – but that means there's no more room for convenient ambiguity. Forming and deploying Trump's International Stabilization Force is an imminent test of its commitment, and it means making hard choices

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-happy-and-sad-to-see-you-the-paradox-of-surviving-the-gaza-genocide/

By Hassan El-Nabih

Published October 26, 2025

A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/not-if-but-how-four-scenarios-for-the-end-of-the-zionist-project/

By Sami Al-Arian

Published November 8, 2025

The question now is not whether the Zionist regime will change course, but how each path ultimately accelerates the end of the Zionist enterprise as a system of racial domination and supremacy over an indigenous people.