At first I didn’t watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8WK2TgruMo) because I didn’t think I could stand it. “Israeli soldier filmed executing wounded Palestinian man.” I finally… Read More »The Execution March 25, 2016
I feel compelled to comment on the frenzied political dance that has engulfed the 2016 AIPAC Policy Conference. The Presidential wanna bees are buzzing the… Read More »Trump Bellows, AIPAC Squirms March 21, 2016
Word is out, Hillary Clinton will join the list of prostrating luminaries at the March 2016 AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Convention, a love… Read More »The danger to Hillary – March 14, 2016
I was recently asked (for perhaps the thousandth time) if I am a “one stater” or a “two stater,” ie., do I support a one-state… Read More »The state of two states – February 14, 2016
I was planning to reflect on the last few months during which the international community has awakened to the horrors of the war in Syria,… Read More »Banned from Boston, December 3, 2015
Dear JK Rowling, To be honest, I am probably one of the few people on the planet who has never read your books. But I… Read More »With all due respect to Harry Potter, November 4, 2015
On October 29, 2015 The Boston Globe reports 11 Israelis killed, 127 injured, 58 Palestinians killed, 2100 injured in what is usually referred to as… Read More »In memoriam: Hashem Al-‘Azza October 29, 2015
This has been a busy week with four presentations on Gaza in Albany, Hartford, and West Barnstable, the latter two as part of the Ninth… Read More »A Busy Week: Bringing Gaza home, October 2, 2015
Thirty five people came to the kick off for Bedford’s First Parish Peace and Justice Committee as the “Third Friday Film Series” for 2015-2016. After… Read More »Bedford’s Third Friday Film Series, September 19, 2015
It is not often that one has the opportunity to break the siege of Gaza without getting into the crosshairs of the Israeli navy. On… Read More »Breaking the siege, one video camera at a time, September 1, 2015
World Fellowship Center in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is a warm and welcoming family retreat that has provided a place for progressive folks… Read More »Report back from the White Mountains August 29, 2015
I just completed two events in Western Mass, one at Café Palestina in Great Barrington and another at a private home in Montague. In total… Read More »Gaza comes to the Berkshires, August 2015
I am sometimes asked, “How can you do what you do when your name is Rothschild?” Or I get a facebook comment: “Never trust a… Read More »But your name is Rothschild…. August 2, 2015
As a physician/activist interested in the political as well as psychodynamic foundations of the ongoing struggles in Israel/Palestine it was an incredible pleasure to be… Read More »Freud meets Palestine – July 27, 2015
