Blog 2015 – Alice Rothchild

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Banned from Boston, December 3, 2015 December 5, 2015Alice Rothchild
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, the millions of internally displaced and fleeing Syrian refugees, (some Palestinians forced to flee again), the ISIL shooting down of a Russian plane, bombings in Beirut and Paris, the “knifings” ...
With all due respect to Harry Potter, November 4, 2015 November 4, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 know your stories of fantasy are based in morality and have inspired millions. I read the letter from Mia, the young Palestinian, who framed her concern over your statements on BDS ...
In memoriam: Hashem Al-‘Azza October 29, 2015 October 29, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 the current “uptick in violence” or as an NPR commentator reported last week, something to the effect, Palestinians attack a Jewish man/woman/child and Israel continues to “defend itself against terror. ...
A Busy Week: Bringing Gaza home, October 2, 2015 October 2, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 Annual Tree of Life Conference (Tree of Life). The audiences were largely sympathetic with some concerned that I did not give enough attention to progressive Jewish Israelis and their ...
Bedford’s Third Friday Film Series, September 19, 2015 September 19, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 viewing my documentary, Voices Across the Divide, we had a lively and broad ranging discussion focused mostly on the politics of the region as well as roles and attitudes of ...
Breaking the siege, one video camera at a time, September 1, 2015 September 1, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 March 25th of this year while on a medical delegation organized by Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, I had the extraordinary experience of seeing a performance by the Gaza Parkour ...
Report back from the White Mountains August 29, 2015 August 29, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 to discuss the issues of the day since opening in 1941 with the theme, ‘In a Time of War, Prepare for Peace’. For several years the portraits of Robert Shetterly, ...
Gaza comes to the Berkshires, August 2015 August 21, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 almost 50 people, ranging from Jewish Palestine solidarity activists to a Buddhist nun to a college student just back from the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine, heard my powerpoint presentation ...
But your name is Rothschild…. August 2, 2015 August 2, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 Rothschild, they’re all Zionists…” Some background: The Rothschild family was a powerful banking dynasty that started in the 1700s in Germany and became immensely wealthy, powerful, and politically influential in Europe. ...
Freud meets Palestine – July 27, 2015 July 27, 2015Alice Rothchild
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 invited to attend a panel on “Israel, the West, and the Palestinians” at the International Psychoanalytic Conference in Boston and then to show my film to some of this most ...

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