Welcome
Alice Rothchild is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who worked in the health care reform and women’s movements for many years. She directed a documentary film and is now writing and speaking, and blogs when inspired or particularly outraged by the state of the world.
Since 1997, she has focused much of her energy on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
NEWS – March 19, 2022
Human Rights Funders Must Support Civil Society in Palestine
As a trustee of a Jewish family foundation that has contributed to Palestinian and Israeli civil society organisations over many years, I am deeply concerned by a series of developments that signal danger for the human rights sector globally. In recent months, the Israeli government hurled smears at Amnesty International for issuing a report concluding that Israel is imposing a system of apartheid on the Palestinian people. The government is now considering punishing the messenger by stripping Amnesty’s Israel country section of its tax-exempt status and barring Amnesty staff… continue to full article –>
POEMS
A new poem by Alice Rothchild, set in1975 Beth Israel Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
The thing is at mobiusmagazine.com
So excited to share my first published poem. I am working on a memoir in verse for young adults, exploring my childhood in the 1950s and 60s and my development as a feminist physician and activist. This poem is part of that (growing) collection.
Nuclear Daffodils at arielchart.com
Two new poems by Alice Rothchild on writersresist.com: Writers Resist is a feminist literary collective born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. We publish creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists from around the globe.
Other publications
Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine.
A curated collection of blog essays and analysis.
Extraordinary Rendition: (American)
Alice Rothchild has penned a poem in this book titled “Inspired by a Poem from the First Intifada”.
A collection of stories, poems, and drawings by young people in Gaza. Alice Rothchild wrote the epilogue. Book is translated into German.
Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism:
Stories of Personal Transformation, edited by Carolyn Karcher.
Interview with Carolyn Karcher
Book review by Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman
Alice Rothchild has an essay in this book called: “Choosing a different path”
Dr. Alice Rothchild
Portrait
Robert Shetterly unveiled his portrait of Alice Rothchild as part of his Americans Who Tell the Truth series with celebration, presentations and singing.
Article
September 2015, A Special Kind of Exile
by Alice Rothchild, AMEU Volume 48 , Issue 4
Check out the documentary film exploring the little known history of the Israel/Palestine conflict through family stories of Palestinians in the US.