Blog 2022 – Alice Rothchild

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United States and Israel: Election Contradiction – November 17, 2022 December 10, 2022Alice Rothchild
first published in Palestine Chronicle https://www.palestinechronicle.com/united-states-and-israel-election-contradiction/ The predicted Republican tsunami now turned red puddle revealed that despite gerrymandering, voter suppression, and massive amounts of right-wing billionaire money and disinformation, US voters have major qualms about a MAGA universe engulfing the country. On state and national levels, voters mostly rejected takeovers by election deniers and conspiracy promoters, and ...
When donor pressure threatens to erase Palestine from academia November 1, 2022Alice Rothchild
first published October 27, 2022 in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2022/10/when-donor-pressure-threatens-to-erase-palestine-from-academia/ In today’s society there is awareness that the interests and demands of funders influence what topics are studied, the definitions of acceptable norms, hidden meanings of language, and sources of knowledge, and that ultimately funding may easily taint research findings. In February 2022 at the University of Washington, ...
The criminalization of pregnancy – August 1, 2022 August 12, 2022Alice Rothchild
first published in the Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-criminalization-of-pregnancy/ M. Ryder / Op-Art By Alice RothchildSpecial to The Times The recent Supreme Court decision to end a woman’s right to abortion and the years of agitating and restrictions that led to that decision are a manifestation of a social trend to criminalize pregnancy. Women and people capable of pregnancy are viewed as ...
Constricting Palestinian Human Rights and the Right to Health: Israeli Apartheid Policies July 28, 2022Alice Rothchild
first published in Palestine Chronicle July 26, 2022 Ali, an 11-month-old cancer patient, at the Qalandiya military checkpoint. (Photo: Tamar Fleishman, The Palestine Chronicle) By Alice Rothchild There is a growing consensus that the behaviors of the Israeli government fulfill the definition of an apartheid regime. There is also a growing consensus that Palestinians who are Israeli citizens or stateless in the occupied Palestinian territories or refugee camps lack ...
America’s growing fault lines May 23, 2022Alice Rothchild
first published in The Seattle Times, May 20, 2022 https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/americas-growing-fault-lines/ By Alice Rothchild Special to The Times I came of age before abortion was legal, when birth control choices were limited and not widely available. This meant that every heterosexual encounter was potentially fraught with the risk of pregnancy, the ruining of a woman’s aspirations, an ill-timed wedding, the ...
Human Rights Funders Must Support Civil Society in Palestine March 19, 2022Alice Rothchild
first published in https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/author/alice-rothchild/ also posted on Charity & Security Network and featured in the subject line March 24, 2022and posted in https://grassrootsonline.org/what-we-do/the-issues/defending-human-rights/page/2/ As a trustee of a Jewish family foundation that has contributed to Palestinian and Israeli civil society organisations over many years, I am deeply concerned by a series of developments that signal danger for ...

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