Today, Jonathan Cook, a brilliant British journalist and writer now living in Nazareth with a Palestinian wife and family and Israeli citizenship broke my heart.… Read More »June 21, 2014 There Was No Farewell part one
We leave for the tortured city of Hebron later than expected (tear gas, food, and embroidery), and H. (Palestinian from Ramallah, just graduated from Yale)… Read More »June 20, 2014 And for Extra Credit: Hebron part two
Feigning bravado and an ambivalent sense of group confidence, our delegation sets off for the West Bank village of Bil’in (see the documentary Five Broken… Read More »June 20, 2014 From Tear Gas to Maqluba part one
Our host father and his two young daughters begin the tour of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem after a breakfast we prepared together with… Read More »June 19, 2014 The Tigers, the Butterflies, and the Birds
Spending a few hours with Tamer Nafar, the hip-hop artist for the group DAM (see the incredible documentary Slingshot Hip Hop) is always a trip.… Read More »June 18, 2104 Scarlet Johansson Has Gas part two
Last night, as we leave Elbeit Alnisa’I for dinner, the nine of us wander off into the dark streets of Beit Sahour, past churches and… Read More »June 18, 2014 The World According to Sami part one
After a frightening moment with a billowing forest fire, we meet Umar in the village of Imwas in the middle of Canada-Ayalon Park, a major… Read More »June 17, 2014 The Stones Do Not Lie part two
The gunfire stops around midnight and we sleep well at the Yaffa Cultural Center in the Balata Refugee Camp. In the morning we learn that… Read More »June 17, 2014 Walking with Ghosts part one
The Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus is a concrete maze of twisting, narrow, sometimes shoulder-width paths, two main streets for the schools and the markets,… Read More »The Main Course June 16, 2014
Today our health and human rights delegation of nine energetic women in various states of jet lag is about to encounter walls: the kind that… Read More »June 15, 2014 To Exist Is to Resist: Challenging the Occupied Mind
I have been on a number of tours of Jerusalem with staff from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and I never cease to… Read More »June 14, 2014 A Blurring of Boundaries and Conscience
So this is my current understanding of a fragment of Palestinian health care (take a deep breath and suspend any concepts you may harbor regarding… Read More »June 13, 2014 The Social and Political Determinants of Health Care: I.e. Don’t get Sick While Palestinian
The sherut drops me in front of the dusty Jerusalem Hotel, a former Arab mansion, where I stop for a bottle of water and a… Read More »June 12, 2014 Disneyfication of the Old City part two
I often encounter some metaphorical weirdness on my flights to Israel, and, true to form, on my layover in Toronto, my flight leaves from gate… Read More »Welcome to Israel, Bien Venue
