Alice Rothchild

op ed published in the Seattle Times May 9, 2025  https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-suffering-in-gaza-is-a-moral-crisis/ Palestinian children jostle for donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis in the… Read More »The suffering in Gaza is a moral crisis – May 9, 2025

first published in Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/zionist-fragility translated into Spanish https://www.elcohetealaluna.com/la-fragilidad-sionista/ Jews and supporters hold a Passover Seder to protest the war in Gaza on April… Read More »Zionist Fragility – January 13, 2025

first published in Mondoweiss December 29, 2024 In September 2024, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) placed Dr. Rupa Marya on paid leave and… Read More »Demand the reinstatement of Dr. Rupa Marya at UC San Francisco

first published in Women Writers, Women’s Books https://booksbywomen.org/the-crafting-of-inspired-and-outraged-the-making-of-a-feminist-physician/ By Alice Rothchild In 2005, in the midst of two years of severe back pain and an… Read More »The Crafting of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, November 29, 2024

first published https://womenshistorynetwork.org/inspired-and-outraged-the-making-of-a-feminist-physician/ My memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, is both a chronicle of my life in the 1950s in a… Read More »Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician – Alice Rothchild: essay for Women’s History Network, November 25, 2024

Robert Shetterly has published a book titled Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth, Oct 2024, and I am honored to have my portrait… Read More »On Becoming a Peacemaker in a World of Trouble, from Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth

November 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us This free-verse autobiography is unique, compelling, enraging and inspiring. Through engaging and passionate poetry, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist Alice… Read More »Inspired and Outraged makes Ms Feminist Know-It-All reading list

first published in Mondoweiss The June 29, 2024 webinar organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, “The destruction of healthcare in Gaza: A scientific… Read More »Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council webinar: The destruction of health care in Gaza and the scientific assessment of settler colonial violence

first published in Health and Human Rights Journal In the United States, the right of medical personnel to speak out about the ongoing assault on Gaza… Read More »Can Health Care Personnel Speak Out on Health and Human Rights Issues in Gaza?

First published in Medium As a social justice activist and writer on the topic of Israel/Palestine, I became interested in the lack of Palestinian lives and… Read More »Where is Palestine in children’s literature and why should we care?

first published on Consequence Forum Uncovering Inconvenient Truths: A Review of Linda Dittmar’s Tracing Homelands By Alice Rothchild Linda Dittmar’s Tracing Homelands is a particularly important read… Read More »Uncovering Inconvenient Truths: A Review of Linda Dittmar’s Tracing Homelands

Alice contributes to the February 2024 version of the The Link, titled “Ceasefire now” Published by Americans for Middle East Understanding, Inc.

first published in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/children-mothers-pregnant-gaza.html By Alice Rothchild Dr. Rothchild is a retired obstetrician and gynecologist, an author, a filmmaker and a former… Read More »For Gaza’s Pregnant Women and Newborns, the War Will Never Be Over – January 9, 2024

first published in The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-israel-hamas-war-where-are-the-voices-of-the-healing-profession/ Surgeons operate on a Palestinian wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a hospital in… Read More »In Israel-Hamas war, where are the voices of the healing profession? – January 3, 2024