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On Empathy, Yom Kippur, and the NFL – October 3, 2017
first published in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/empathy-yom-kippur/ Last week it was Yom Kippur when religious Jews and their twice…
Ten Days of Awe: Standing with whom? – September 21, 2017
Also published by Just World Educational https://justworldeducational.org/2017/09/ten-days-awe-standing/ and Mondoweiss…
Senator Cantwell: Are you listening? September 10, 2017
first published by Mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/senator-cantwell-listening/ Senate Bill 720, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, (and its…
A not so slow genocide – July 11, 2017
first published in The Globe Post While the world is appropriately focused on the massive humanitarian crises in places like Syria and Mosul and…
Radiation and ringworm: a tale of social policy, racism, and health care – July 9, 2017
first published in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/radiation-ringworm-social/ On June 14, 2017, the Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom,…
Between Life and Death: The Propaganda of anti-BDS Campaigns May 30, 2017
first published in Palestine Square, Between Life and Death: The Propaganda of anti-BDS Campaigns Between Life and Death: The Propaganda of…
A tale of two cities – May 22, 2017
published in Mondoweiss, May 22, 2017 https://mondoweiss.net/2017/05/a-tale-of-two-cities/#comments A tale of two cities The invitation was…
A Victory for the First Amendment – March 29, 2017
A Victory for the First Amendment Blog published in Palestine Square, a Project of the Institute of Palestine…
A Hint of Trouble: How “Pro-Israeli” Organizations Work to Suppress Freedom of Speech – March 27, 2017
Alice Rothchild March 27, 2017 News A Hint of Trouble: How “Pro-Israeli” Organizations Work to Suppress Freedom of Speech published in…
Why Gaza? – January 20, 2017
Writing as therapy. Shabak, if you planted a bug in my computer, listen up! But I am jumping ahead of myself. Yesterday afternoon was lost in the…
A war against Arab citizens – January 19, 2017
It is 5:30 in the morning and I am awakened with another nightmare. Israeli soldiers are cutting off my hands and feet. I am negotiating while…
Guilty until proven innocent – January 18, 2017
I awaken early with a nightmare. I am at Ofer Prison and the security guards have flushed my clothes down the toilet. I am very freaked…
What do we say to our daughters? January 17, 2017
Today is the funeral for Qusay Hasna al-Umour, killed yesterday just outside of Bethlehem. I keep hearing comments like, “This is our…
Cultural resistance and throwing stones – January 16, 2017
News that you probably have not heard: Today a 17 year old named Qusay Hasna al-Umour was killed by Israeli soldiers in Tuqu, a village just east of…
Farah Center: Big accomplishments, minimal resources – January 15, 2017
We drive from southern Bani Na’im (northeast of Hebron) to the northern city of Nablus. The taxi is 40 minutes late and I practice slow breathing…
Dreaming of a Jewish Judea and Samaria and Arab-rein streets – January 13, 2017
Two news items that you probably will not hear about: GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Amid widespread protests Thursday night regarding the electricity…
Organic arugula? We are expecting demolishment – January 12, 2017
Joining me in Palestine, my husband’s 11 pm flight to Istanbul was delayed (snowstorms) seven hours resulting in two lost nights of sleep…
Guilty by reason of zata’ar – January 11, 2017
Today we leave Gaza, quickly through the Hamas and Palestinian Authority bureaucracy, down the long caged corridor through the no-man’s…
We exist! We are more than war! – 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 the people living…
How will Israeli security be threatened if children drink clean water? January 10, 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…
At least let me do your eyebrows – 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 building that is still under…
No more silence – 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 the…
Trauma and shame: Women struggle for gender justice – January 9, 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…
Women’s talk – 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 Child Protection…
Two million survivors: We will not be trapped to be dehumanized- 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…
Gaza beyond the stereotypes – January 8, 2017
First published in: https://justworldeducational.org/2017/01/alice-rothchild-friends-gaza-jan-2017/ The drive to Gaza City is largely unchanged…
Carded at Erez – 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…
Haifa and Akko: The refusal to be forgotten – January 7, 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 and…
Free of being colonized – January 6, 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 Haifa to meet with…
What kind of monsters behave this way? – Friday 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…
The steady erasure of Palestinian life – 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 explains…
Yes, this is really apartheid – January 6, 2017
published in Mondoweiss click here Jamal Juma is my hero. I awaken to the near frigid temperatures of our apartment in Ramallah…
We smoke and smoke to close our mouths – January 5, 2017
During a brief visit to Birzeit University with its cream colored buildings, open squares, clusters of college students looking much like…
Soap and sisterhood – January 4, 2017
So how this does all look in the field? Once again we pile into a van heading through Ramallah construction like a massive half built…
For the Love of the Land: Building Food Sovereignty
first published by https://justworldeducational.org/2017/01/alice-rothchild-crisis-in-west-bank-agriculture/ My alarm is dutifully set for 6:15 am…
I’m OK you’re OK – January 3, 2017
For weeks I obsessed and planned and strategized about what may happen in Israel when I enter with three other women to explore partner organizations…