An Open Letter from Friends of Sabeel, Fall 2005
This letter is in response to a negative media campaign against Sabeel and its director The Rev. Naim Ateek following a string of Sabeel educational conferences in the fall of 2005 culminating with a conference on divestment in Toronto.  A coalition of pro-Occupation, Christian Zionist groups and others opposed to church divestment strategies have orchestrated these media attacks.   

Statements in Support of Sabeel

Bishop Beverly J. Shamana, California-Nevada Conference,
The United Methodist Church, letter of support, July 10, 2007

Afif Safieh, Head of PLO Mission to the USA
A statement of support, July 2006

Task Group Turning Point (The Netherlands), September 2006

Sami Joseph (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) August 2006

Anti-Defamation League Wrong To Attack United Church Of Christ
Article by Chuck Currie, UCC Seminarian, January 10, 2006

Rt. Rev. Edmond Browning
A statement of support, January 2006

Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Statement in support of divestment conference, October 2005

Tutu lends his name as Sabeel's international patron
Press release, June 20, 2003

Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A message from our patron, December 2003

Letters to the editor

An article by Manya Brachear, published Oct. 9, 2005 in the Chicago Tribune (Seminary event on Mideast criticized: Palestinian Christian group targeted) is an example of a larger campaign against Sabeel. Here are several letters to the editors of newspapers around the country, written in response to Brachear's article.

Chicago Tribune (HTML)
collected the letters sent to the Chicago Tribune in response to Manya Brachear's article

Boulder Daily Camera (HTML)
a Jewish Israeli responds to anti-Sabeel campaign

Articles

“I never lose hope” (interview with Naim Ateek)
Sojourner magazine, August 2005