“I will not ask us to hope or pray for an unwinding of tension and for calm to spread — we all want that — but it’s not the point. Instead, this Easter, I would ask that we commit ourselves again to justice, human rights, seeing the humanity in the person before us.” Chris Rose writes about the situation at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Easter 2023.

Chris Rose writes about leaving our home of nine years, St Clement’s Eastcheap, in the City of London.

“I guess I expected a kind of Ottolenghi-style tour, a pomegranate-seed strewn food odyssey with a bit of politics thrown in. Naïve, ignorant, stupid me. Nothing could have prepared me for the mind-blowing gut-wrenching tragedy that is happening in this region.” Sue Quinn writes about Amos’ Taste of Palestine trip.

There was an awful inevitability to the killings this weekend in Jenin and Jerusalem. We deplore the loss of any life, and our thoughts and prayers are with all those who mourn.

2022 was the year we started travelling again properly, the year we cycled for Palestine and exhibited art from Gaza in Bethlehem and Boughton. Join us as we look back at 2022.