Originally posted on The Leftern Wall:
Last year, I wrote a piece called “Detangling the Holocaust from Israeli-Palestinian Politics.” In it, I wrote about my initial reaction to the quick approaching Holocaust Memorial Day: a…
Month: April 2014
Pragmatism or Dogmatism: Hamas and the Dynamics of Ceasefire (An Academic Essay from 2010)
Originally posted on The Leftern Wall:
{Foreword: As contrasted to most of my blogs, which are short form, informally written, and not fact-heavy, this piece is an 8,000 word research paper I wrote during my…
Lintels – A Poem for and from Passover
Lintels* This is the bread of affliction Raw: It catches in our throats and Alarm rings like a test but it is not a test Like a fork, a gold-wired ambulance Stopped at the border […]
A Definition of Oppression as Witnessed on a Sherut
On the “sherut,” the clunky, odd yellow transits that shuttle back and forth between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (and elsewhere). It’s a trip it make often- I may have moved to Spring Hill, but I […]
Justice, Justice. Slide Show, Slide Show. Now, Now. Polite, Polite.
In the court with the jesters there are gestures for the guards subdue the angry man they say they say why is he so angry All tongues cluck We are discussing archeology Pretty slides Campy, […]
BREAKING NEWS: Hillel International Revises Campus Guidelines*
The student-led initiative Open Hillel was launched to question Hillel International’s “Israel Guidelines,” and has taken root on campuses like Swarthmore, Vassar and, most recently, Wesleyan, and is making additional waves on campuses around the country like Berkeley and […]
Oy Vey: The Days When The Right Wing and The Leftern Wall Align
So. I subscribe to a mailing list called World Jewish Daily Morning Update. Mostly for the right-wing Op Eds and the charming framing the WJD gives to current events, such as: Today, though, it was […]
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