Alice Rothchild

The day starts grey and edgy for me, not only because we are going to visit the alternative universe of Hebron, but also because the… Read More »Oct 21, 2012 Greetings from the Brownshirts and Klansmen of Hebron

Like millions before us, we explore the Old City of Jerusalem, absorbing the conflicting communities, the array of conquerors, the building and rebuilding, the ethereal… Read More »Oct 19, 2012 Guns and Moses

Nabi Saleh blog            Bullets and Stones On a hot Friday afternoon, I am sitting on a lovely balcony high on… Read More »Oct 19, 2012 Bullets and Stones

10/18 Budrus After the tour of the wall, we gather to meet in a large municipal community room, U shaped table, ceiling fans stirring the… Read More »Oct 18, 2012 Making Popular Resistance

Dorothy Cotton keeps referring to “our pilgrimage” and as we set off for the village of  Budrus, Vincent Harding starts us singing, voices blending, harmonizing,… Read More »Oct 18, 2012 Another Pilgrimage: Budrus

The last time I went to Bil’in was in January 2011 for a frightening, exhilarating tear gas filled Friday demonstration against the wall. This time,… Read More »Oct 16, 2012 Bil’in: Hozon (Sadness) and Farah (Happiness)

We leave Ramallah, winding our way past vendors unloading cartons (with Hebrew names) lush with persimmons, bananas, pomegranates, grapes, and smaller boxes piled with lettuce,… Read More »Oct 15, 2012 We have nothing to lose

I have a confession to make; we are still on the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions tour with Ruth Edmond, but my Israel/Palestine PTSD was… Read More »Oct 13, 2012 If Walls Could Talk

Ruth Edmonds, another Israeli refuser, is the daughter of a Jewish mother and English father. She came from a political household; both parents were environmental… Read More »Oct 12, 2012 Segregation in the Democratic State of Israel

Sahar Vardi is an Israeli woman who has come to speak to us on a panel with two Palestinian women from another organization, Just Visions.… Read More »Oct 12, 2012 One soldier, two tanks, three guns, four dead Arabs

I am traveling to Israel/Palestine with a group of African-American civil rights leaders, theologians, scholars, activists, feminists, and fellow travelers under the guidance and affirmation… Read More »Oct 11, 2012 The Big Hats