Blog 2020 – Alice Rothchild

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‘Writing for the sake of collective survival’ — the emotional brilliance of the Palestine Writes Festival – December 9, 2020 December 17, 2020Alice Rothchild
first published in Mondoweiss This past year, the isolated loneliness of being a writer has been magnified by the cruelties of the pandemic. Spending five intense virtual days at the Palestine Writes Literature Festival with over 3,000 people from 75 different countries was an exhilarating and welcome relief, even though it came with the expected Zoom ...
The pandemic’s savage political revelations, from the U.S. to Palestine – August 8, 2020 December 17, 2020Alice Rothchild
First published in Mondoweiss Much of the analysis of COVID-19 and Palestine examines the pandemic through a political lens. Palestinians in Israel and the territories have had less access to testing and information due to their second-class citizenship and the conditions of occupation. In the West Bank and Gaza, there are significant deficits in medical ...
The twin challenges to Palestinian mental health of occupation and pandemic – July 7, 2020 December 17, 2020Alice Rothchild
First published in Mondoweiss On June 25, 2020, the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council cohosted with founding members of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network a webinar titled “Resisting Occupation and Pandemic: Mental Health in Palestine Now.” The panel was moderated by Lama Khouri, a psychotherapist working with children and adults in New York ...
With Apologies to Sholem Aleichem…An Old Rabbinic Tale (truly) – September 23, 2020 September 23, 2020Alice Rothchild
There is a Yiddish folktale about a man who lived with his wife, eight children, mother, and father?in?law in a one?room house. He was miserable so he went to the rebbi and complained, “It’s so crowded!” The rebbi said, “Take your goat into the house.” The man was even more miserable and with each subsequent ...
Who Matters? Pandemic in a time of structural violence – May 5, 2020 May 9, 2020Alice Rothchild
First published in Mondoweiss. Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic as it impacts Israel/Palestine provides us with a unique case study of the realities of health care and public health in a racialized and unequal society. Israel reported its first case of the coronavirus on February 21, a woman returning from a cruise.* In the second week of ...
Forward global thinking on Covid 19 March 28, 2020Alice Rothchild
First published in MOndoweiss The announcement that nine cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Gaza filled me with a new level of anxiety and despair. Gaza is at the beginning of the pandemic curve. With two million people crowded together in area six by twenty-five miles, 70 percent are refugees, 97 percent of the water ...
Coronavirus: A good argument for Medicare for All – March 18, 2020 March 20, 2020Alice Rothchild
first published in The Seattle Times Special to The Times As an obstetrician-gynecologist and member of Physicians for a National Health Program, I have long supported sweeping changes in how health care in the U.S. is financed, from challenging the cost and gate-keeping roles of health-insurance companies to the price gouging by big pharma. COVID-19 has ...
Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ is a flawed, ahistorical plan with major health consequences – February 27, 2020 February 27, 2020Alice Rothchild
first published in Mondoweiss The Trump administration plan for Israel/Palestine, ironically titled “Peace to Prosperity: a vision to improve the lives of the Palestinian and Israeli people,” is a flawed, ahistorical document that is basically a gift to the Israeli government, affirming and giving international blessings to much of the status quo. The document is framed in ...
A hierarchy of vulnerability – February 1, 2020 February 2, 2020Alice Rothchild
First published in Mondoweiss I was recently passing through customs where I popped my US passport face down on a little machine which then opened a gate that led to two yellow footprints in the next compartment. I placed my feet on the footprints, faced the camera, tried to look like my friendly passport photo, ...

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