Founded in 1971, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) works within the Unitarian Universalist community to promote peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, including a settlement of the conflict affirming the equality, dignity, freedom and security of all peoples involved.

UUJME has a national Board of Directors as well as several local groups affiliated with Unitarian Universalist churches throughout the United States. This web site contains many resources for people interested in learning more about the conflict in Israel-Palestine, which stretches back to the 1880s, as well as resources for those ready to take action to promote justice and human rights in Israel-Palestine. 

 Photo: Emile Ashrawi, West Bank, Palestine

UUJME has asked UUs to sign a petition to TIAA-CREF calling on it to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s occupations of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The petition to TIAA-CREF is particularly appropriate for UUs because the staffs of many UU congregations and organizations have their retirement savings with TIAA-CREF, and because TIAA-CREF prides itself on socially-conscious investing.  We've gotten hundreds of signatures so far, but we hope to get many more.  Read more to find out how you can help!

Reserve a seat at our UUJME Sermon Contest luncheon to be held on Friday, June 21st, from noon to 1:45 pm during General Assembly in order  to hear the winner of the 2013 UUJME Sermon Contest, Galina L. de Roeck of Tuscon, AZ, deliver her winning sermon, titled "Promised Land"!  Click here for details.

Read about UUJME's General Assembly plans; an update on the TIAA-CREF divestment campaign; 2013's UUJME Sermon Contest winner; the inspiring activism on behalf of justice in Israel-Palestine of several UUs, including an interim minister, a college student, and a retired civil engineer working on water projects in the occupied West Bank; and more in the Spring 2013 UUJME Newsletter!

The UUA's Beacon Press has just released a timely new book from author and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi entitled Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.  In light of President Obama's recent trip to Israel-Palestine, this book could not have come at a more opportune time, and UUJME has just signed an agreement with Beacon Press to offer a 20% discount and free shipping to all UUJME members, supporters, and contacts!  What's more, UUJME will receive a 10% rebate on all books purchased through this agreement.  Learn more!

UUJME's Don McInnes will again be leading a human rights trip to Israel/Palestine this summer, from June 24 - July 4, 2013.  If you'd like to join the trip, a non-refundable deposit of $250 by March 13 is needed, so act quickly!

SodaStream is an Israeli corporation that manufactures consumer devices that create soda water from tap water in the home.  SodaStream bills its product as being environmentally friendly, as it helps reduces waste from bottles and cans created by commercially-bottled carbonated beverages.  Unfortunately, SodaStream's main manufacturing plant is located on illegally-confiscated Palestinian land in the West Bank settlement of Mishor Edomim, which means the profits from the sale of SodaStream products are being used to sustain Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land.  UUJME has heeded the call of Palestinian civil society to boycott SodaStream, and we have signed on as an endorser of the Interfaith Boycott Coalition.  For more information, see Code Pink's SodaStream page.

Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) has begun a campaign asking UUs to sign a petition to investment giant TIAA-CREF calling on it to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. 

Read more about the campaign here.