Joining me in Palestine, my husband’s 11 pm flight to Istanbul was delayed (snowstorms) seven hours resulting in two lost nights of sleep and… Read More »Organic arugula? We are expecting demolishment – January 12, 2017
Today we leave Gaza, quickly through the Hamas and Palestinian Authority bureaucracy, down the long caged corridor through the no-man’s land bordered by the… Read More »Guilty by reason of zata’ar – January 11, 2017
The goodbyes at Marna House are warm and heartfelt. Dr. Yasser presents us with gifts and there is talk of how important it is to… Read More »We exist! We are more than war! – January 11, 2017
Humanitarian workers in Gaza have a unique window on the impact of the political and economic realities on Gazans and I am meeting with… Read More »How will Israeli security be threatened if children drink clean water? January 10, 2017
I am back in the taxi driving north to a center in the middle of Gaza, Al Zahraa. They are housed in a snazzy new… Read More »At least let me do your eyebrows – January 10, 2017
According to a human rights worker I spoke with today, Israeli forces broke into a home in Nablus in the middle of last night, awakening… Read More »No more silence – January 10, 2017
The next stop is at the Hayat Multipurpose Center, Project for the Protection and Empowerment of Women and Families, Center for Women’s Legal Research and… Read More »Trauma and shame: Women struggle for gender justice – January 9, 2017
After the dare devil taxi ride through the streets of Gaza City, I am so pleased to return to the Aisha Association for Women and… Read More »Women’s talk – January 9, 2017
First published https://justworldeducational.org/2017/01/alice-rothchild-in-gaza-part-2/ The news on the street from Jerusalem: the accused killer of the Israeli soldiers was recently released from an Israeli prison (background:… Read More »Two million survivors: We will not be trapped to be dehumanized- January 9, 2017
First published in: https://justworldeducational.org/2017/01/alice-rothchild-friends-gaza-jan-2017/ The drive to Gaza City is largely unchanged from 2015, the crazy drivers and constant honking and near death experiences, the… Read More »Gaza beyond the stereotypes – January 8, 2017
This evening we receive a report of four soldiers killed in East Jerusalem…excerpts from NPR (thanks to the functioning internet goddess and electricity)… At… Read More »Carded at Erez – January 8, 2017
I have heard this story before, but feeling the history where it happened from the people it happened to brings a new kind of power… Read More »Haifa and Akko: The refusal to be forgotten – January 7, 2017
We head west into ’48 Israel (ie. the Israel bordered by the 1948 Armistice Line or Green Line) and off to the coastal city of… Read More »Free of being colonized – January 6, 2017
The scene: tucked in exquisite, pink, creamy rolling hills, the earth here is rocky. First we drive by piles of ripped up tents and crumpled… Read More »What kind of monsters behave this way? – Friday January 6, 2017
The conversation with Jamal Juma continues as we head out of Ramallah and it is the dreadful minutiae and meanness that wears me down. Jamal… Read More »The steady erasure of Palestinian life – January 6, 2017
