Yesterday afternoon, Kayla and I made our way into central West Jerusalem for this year’s Jerusalem Pride Parade. It was a sunny, crisp afternoon, and we met up with a friend, Jenna, whom we’d met in Berkeley […]
Month: July 2015
UPDATE: Susiya’s High Court Discussion Delayed; Demolitions Likely Delayed Also
[Note: This post has been altered to account for updated language and information]. This is the update from Rabbis for Human Rights and “Free Jerusalem,” a few of the many groups of activists and organizers working […]
A Response to the Israeli Embassy’s Response Re: Susiya (Snark Warning).
This morning, I got a response to a form-letter I had sent to the Israeli Embassy in London regarding Susiya. In reading the text, I was immediately struck by how expertly they succeeded in saying almost […]
IDF “discovers” that Palestinian Susiya is Palestinian Owned (Coincidence?)
This was the article on the front page of Haaretz this morning: You can read the full piece here. It is too early to say what this will mean, in practice, but I think it is […]
An American-Israeli’s reflections from Germany: I am indigenous-dispossessed here (Haaretz)
[This piece was originally published in Haaretz on July 23rd, 2015] AUGSBURG, Germany — I am indigenous here. I am indigenous-dispossessed here. I was born in West Jerusalem and raised mostly in Southwest Ohio, and […]
Two ways to respond to the “Susiya isn’t real” madness
There is no way to justify the demolition of Susiya except by justifying bigotry and oppression. None. The right wing knows this. They know that the real reasons for Susiya’s pending demolition — occupation, racism, […]
As the threat to Susiya grows, so does the need for action.
[Graphic put together by Rabbis for Human Rights] Between July 20th, the end of Ramadan, and August 3rd, the date on which the Israeli Supreme Court will hear Susiya’s case against demolition, there are expected […]
Nothing is Apolitical in Jerusalem (A Story)
I am standing in line to deal with some technicality at the Arnona tax office in the Jerusalem municipality. It is hot out (although not Tel Aviv-hot). It is a severely long line. People are […]
How These Two Headlines Illustrate the Nonexistence of “Objective” News
I opened my phone this morning, and two had notifications, both about the same event, from Ynet and Haaretz: In general, it is often possible to glean a newspaper’s narrative or ideology from its titles, […]
The Leftern Wall 