On taking a side

Sharen Green believes it is time to do so

by Sharen Green 4th March 2011

Simon Gray’s piece Supporting Both Sides (17 February), in which he urges Friends not to take sides in the question of boycotting goods from Israeli settlements, got me thinking hard. Quakers have, generally, always taken a side – the side of the oppressed, the downtrodden and the marginalised.