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://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/we-held-out-until-our-last-breath-palestinians-fleeing-the-north-arrive-in-gaza-citys-first-refugee-camp/

By Tareq S. Hajjaj 

Published November 7, 2024

Civilians fleeing north Gaza arrive in Gaza City and stay in newly established refugee camps. The camps are already overflowing and there aren’t any more tents.

https://jfjfp.com/weaponizing-jewish-fear-from-tel-aviv-to-amsterdam/

Em Hilton writes in +972 November 15, 2024

Rhetoric about ‘pogroms’ and ‘Jew hunts’ aims to obscure reality by generating mass hysteria — which can then be used to advance a far-right agenda. 

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41516819.html

By Colin Sheridan

Published November 14, 2024

Writing about the genocide taking place in Palestine seems the most obvious thing in the world to do. That other people do not think so confounds and depresses me

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/trump-evangelicals-global-china-israel-nepal-uk/

Compiled by CT Editors

Published November 7, 2024

Christian leaders from Nepal to Turkey greet the US election results with joy, grief, and indifference.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-11-10/ty-article-opinion/.premium/my-palestinian-sisters-and-brothers-we-need-a-new-version-of-the-palestinian-resistance/00000193-15f7-d54d-a5f7-1dff84820000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Rajaa+Natour&utm_term=20241110-15:42

By Rajaa Natour

Published November 10, 2024

The time has come to admit that Hamas has no political horizon beyond deepening the Palestinian losses and leveraging them to continue its existence and rule in Gaza

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2578891

By Ramzy Baroud

Published November 11, 2024

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-27/ty-article/.premium/gaza-is-the-horror-that-cant-be-denied-but-israelis-will-try/00000192-cf22-d4a2-ab97-cf2fe1640000

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Published October 27, 2024

Headlines have shifted to Iran, but Israel is still starving, bombing and expelling the population of northern Gaza. While Israeli society as a whole has activated its denial mode, the horrifying images – and the policy, statements and reality behind them – are causing some Israelis to protest war crimes, or even utter the word genocide

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-11-03/ty-article-opinion/.premium/resistance-is-a-just-struggle/00000192-ee0c-d3da-a5b7-ff1ea6fa0000

By Gideon Levy

Published November 3, 2024

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-kills-journalists-western-media-killing-truth-genocide

By Jonathan Cook

Published October 25, 2024

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’