Alice Rothchild

first published in Counterpunch As my grief and outrage mount at the predictable escalations of violence in Israel/Palestine, I once again marvel at the chasms… Read More »The Nakba Continues – May 14, 2021

First published in Mondoweiss A PALESTINIAN FARMER FROM THE VILLAGE OF QARYUT INSPECTS THE REMAINS OF HIS OLIVE TREES ON OCTOBER 9, 2012, AFTER AFTER… Read More »‘NYT’ coverage of happy boars of Haifa is just another way to ignore settlers’ crimes – April 11, 2021

first published in Truthout A Palestinian woman, wearing a protective mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic, walks past graffiti with a slogan in Arabic reading: “protect… Read More »Under Israeli Apartheid, There Are Two Different Pandemics – February 28, 2021

I am on the steering committee of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council and helped author these letters. March 1 Dr. Fauci, Please… Read More »Letters to Dr. Fauci from the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council February 28 & April 9 2021

first published in Mondoweiss This past year, the isolated loneliness of being a writer has been magnified by the cruelties of the pandemic. Spending five… Read More »‘Writing for the sake of collective survival’ — the emotional brilliance of the Palestine Writes Festival – December 9, 2020

First published in Mondoweiss Much of the analysis of COVID-19 and Palestine examines the pandemic through a political lens. Palestinians in Israel and the territories… Read More »The pandemic’s savage political revelations, from the U.S. to Palestine – August 8, 2020

First published in Mondoweiss On June 25, 2020, the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council cohosted with founding members of the Palestine-Global Mental Health… Read More »The twin challenges to Palestinian mental health of occupation and pandemic – July 7, 2020

There is a Yiddish folktale about a man who lived with his wife, eight children, mother, and father?in?law in a one?room house. He was miserable… Read More »With Apologies to Sholem Aleichem…An Old Rabbinic Tale (truly) – September 23, 2020

First published in Mondoweiss. Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic as it impacts Israel/Palestine provides us with a unique case study of the realities of health… Read More »Who Matters? Pandemic in a time of structural violence – May 5, 2020

First published in MOndoweiss The announcement that nine cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Gaza filled me with a new level of anxiety and… Read More »Forward global thinking on Covid 19

first published in The Seattle Times Special to The Times As an obstetrician-gynecologist and member of Physicians for a National Health Program, I have long… Read More »Coronavirus: A good argument for Medicare for All – March 18, 2020

first published in Mondoweiss The Trump administration plan for Israel/Palestine, ironically titled “Peace to Prosperity: a vision to improve the lives of the Palestinian and… Read More »Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ is a flawed, ahistorical plan with major health consequences – February 27, 2020

First published in Mondoweiss I was recently passing through customs where I popped my US passport face down on a little machine which then opened… Read More »A hierarchy of vulnerability – February 1, 2020

first published in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2020, pp. 12-13 Special Report By Dr. Alice Rothchild… Read More »Cyber Bullies at Canary Mission Muzzle Free Speech – December 15, 2019

first published in Mondoweiss A folk dance troupe in Kibbutz Dalia, January 5, 1945. (Photo: National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. GPO) I grew… Read More »Zionism’s uneasy relationship to antisemitism – November 19, 2019