Blog 2017 – Alice Rothchild

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On Empathy, Yom Kippur, and the NFL – October 3, 2017 October 3, 2017Alice Rothchild
first published in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/empathy-yom-kippur/ Last week it was Yom Kippur when religious Jews and their twice a year compatriots crowd the synagogues and some secular types like me get a strange yearning for challah and are nudged by an insistent internal voice that ponders the very insane state of affairs in which we find ourselves. This ...
Ten Days of Awe: Standing with whom? – September 21, 2017 September 22, 2017Alice Rothchild
Also published by Just World Educational https://justworldeducational.org/2017/09/ten-days-awe-standing/ and Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/days-standing-with/ So it’s Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment and Remembering, and we of the Jewish persuasion are beginning ten days of intensive reflection that culminates in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. We are urged to engage in self-examination, both of our personal lives and of our ...
Senator Cantwell: Are you listening? September 10, 2017 September 8, 2017Alice Rothchild
first published by Mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/senator-cantwell-listening/ Senate Bill 720, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, (and its twin in the House of Representatives, Bill 1697), are currently wending their ways through the national legislative process with all the usual front and backroom big money pressure from AIPAC, StandWithUs, and Co., as well as pushback from the less financially endowed ...
A not so slow genocide – July 11, 2017 July 14, 2017Alice Rothchild
first published in The Globe Post While the world is appropriately focused on the massive humanitarian crises in places like Syria and Mosul and South Sudan, two million Gazans face a growing manmade disaster that is largely invisible. After 50 years of occupation, a decade of strangulating siege, and multiple high and low-intensity Israeli assaults on ...
Radiation and ringworm: a tale of social policy, racism, and health care – July 9, 2017 July 9, 2017Alice Rothchild
first published in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/radiation-ringworm-social/ On June 14, 2017, the Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom, published an extraordinary report documenting medical experiments on mostly Yemenite children who subsequently “disappeared”; those who died were autopsied without parental consent, the parents were often not allowed to see their dead children, and no death certificates were provided. Since Operation ...
Between Life and Death: The Propaganda of anti-BDS Campaigns May 30, 2017 May 30, 2017Alice Rothchild
first published in Palestine Square, Between Life and Death: The Propaganda of anti-BDS Campaigns Between Life and Death: The Propaganda of anti-BDS Campaigns May 30, 2017 Alice Rothchild News & Analysis A May 19th Boston Globe full-page ad from the AJC Global Jewish Advocacy, an organization claiming to “advance human rights and democratic values in the United ...
A tale of two cities – May 22, 2017 May 22, 2017Alice Rothchild
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 warm and welcoming and came via twitter, this being the twenty-first century. A teacher at a prestigious private school in New England asked me to present as part of a speakers’ program in an informal coffee house setting that usually attracts ...
A Victory for the First Amendment – March 29, 2017 March 30, 2017Alice Rothchild
A Victory for the First Amendment Blog published in Palestine Square, a Project of the Institute of Palestine Studies. https://palestinesquare.com/2017/03/29/a-victory-for-the-first-amendment/ Editor’s note: Alice Rothchild, author of Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine, recently spoke at the Sarasota Institute of Lifelong Learning (SILL). “Pro-Israeli” groups attempted to suppress her speech and led a campaign to coerce SILL into ...
A Hint of Trouble: How “Pro-Israeli” Organizations Work to Suppress Freedom of Speech – March 27, 2017 March 28, 2017Alice Rothchild
Alice Rothchild March 27, 2017 News A Hint of Trouble: How “Pro-Israeli” Organizations Work to Suppress Freedom of Speech published in Palestine Square, the blog of the Institute for Palestine Studies https://palestinesquare.com/2017/03/27/a-hint-of-trouble-how-pro-israeli-organizations-work-to-suppress-freedom-of-speech/ Almost one year ago, I received an invitation to speak in Sarasota, Florida, and two nearby communities as part of the Sarasota Institute of Lifelong ...
Why Gaza? – January 20, 2017 February 20, 2017Alice Rothchild
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 ritual of endless slowpoke uploading of photos and blogs and notes and the cleansing as best I could of any evidence of the past two and a half weeks. ...

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