Blog 2023 – Alice Rothchild

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When the messages stopped: November 23, 2023 December 24, 2023Alice Rothchild
My original substack essay was edited and shortened for the website Global Voices, now translated into Greek, Albanian, Spanish, Dutch, Bangla, Russian!!!! Reflections on Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza https://globalvoices.org/2023/11/23/when-the-messages-stopped/ Gaza-based participation in the 18th We Are Not Numbers (WANN) cohort, meeting for a training in September 2023. The photo was taken by Yousef Dawas, who was ...
When the messages stopped: Reflections on Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza- November 8, 2023 November 11, 2023Alice Rothchild
first published on substack https://alicerothchild.substack.com/p/when-the-messages-stopped-reflections From October 7th to 27th, my phone apps, emails, and texts constantly called for my attention, mostly fragmented messages and videos from the Gaza Strip, cries from survivors and the feared-soon-to-be dead. Medical colleagues and friends stayed to work in their hospitals in the north despite the impossible Israeli directive to ...
Writing while expecting to die – October 22,2023 October 26, 2023Alice Rothchild
first published in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/writing-while-expecting-to-die/ written with Cathy Baker GAZA-GAZA-BASED PARTICIPANTS IN THE 18TH WANN COHORT, INDUCTED INTO TRAINING IN SEPTEMBER 2023. THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY YOUSEF DAWAS WHO WAS KILLED BY AN ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE ON HIS FAMILY’S HOME IN THE TOWN OF BEIT LAHIA ON OCTOBER 14, 2023. “We are slowly dying and the world ...
Lauging and Crying in Gaza October 18, 2023Alice Rothchild
First published in Washington Post for Middle East Affairs https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/laughing-and-crying-in-gaza.html Laughing and Crying in Gaza ALICE ROTHCHILD ISRAEL-PALESTINE POSTED ON OCTOBER 18, 2023 A cluster of older women sit in canvas beach chairs at the edge of the shore, their feet soaking in the water, at the Bianco Resort. Eight weeks later, Gazans were under attack. (PHOTO COURTESY ALICE ROTHCHILD) Washington Report on ...
Statement from AMEU October 11, 2023 October 18, 2023Alice Rothchild
#Link2Gaza Nearly 200 people have written for The Link over the past six decades. We have invited them all– those that are still with us– to contribute to this series, in hopes their understanding of this moment may improve our own, and hopefully our readers’ as well. We’ve asked that whatever the offering– a statement, a ...
The hypocrisy of Israel and “the most moral army in the world” October 14, 2023 October 18, 2023Alice Rothchild
first published on substack: https://alicerothchild.substack.com/p/the-hypocrisy-of-israel-and-the-most Hamas’ stunning assault in Israel must be condemned as a war crime. Full stop. Some celebrated the attack as a moment of retribution for more than 75 years of Israeli brutality towards Palestinians, but human rights groups and people of conscience understand that attacking and killing civilians is never acceptable. “The ...
The charge that ‘Palestine Writes Festival’ is antisemitic is baseless – September 21, 2023 October 1, 2023Alice Rothchild
first published in Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/the-charge-that-palestine-writes-festival-is-antisemitic-is-baseless/ PROMOTIONAL GRAPHIC FOR PALESTINE WRITES 2023 I write this with a mix of fatigue, anger, and frustration. The Palestine Writes Literature Festival will officially open tomorrow, September 22, at the ...
Thinking About the Weaponization of Antisemitism September 13, 2023Alice Rothchild
first published on substack https://alicerothchild.substack.com/p/thinking-about-the-weaponization July 4, 2023 Denunciations of antisemitism must be credibly nested within opposition to white nationalism, racism and Islamophobia. If we do not distinguish between valid critiques of the policies of the Israeli state and antisemitism, we are allowing rightwing forces to weaponize antisemitism, suppressing freedom of speech and open debate, and ...
Democracy in Israel? Not for all September 13, 2023Alice Rothchild
first published in The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/democracy-in-israel-not-for-all/September 12, 2023 Opinion Democracy in Israel? Not for all Sep. 12, 2023 at 2:20 pm In the Palestinian village of Al Mughayyir, goats return after being chased from their grazing area. (Courtesy of Alice Rothchild) By Alice Rothchild Special to The Seattle Times Headlines out of Israel have focused on the government’s efforts to muzzle the ...

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