Abdallah Abu Nab has lived in his family’s home in Batan al-Hawa, Silwan, East Jerusalem, since he was born; if the settler organization Ateret Cohanim’s plans go through, Abdallah and his family will be made […]
Month: August 2015
9 Thoughts on the Matisyahu Disinvite, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and Leftist Discourse
source: some corner of the internet. ‘none are free until we are all free…’ So. Perhaps it was silly of me to think that I could just digitally jot down a few snippets about an issue […]
Some snippets on anti-Semitism and Matisyahu
I’ve been planning on writing a long, serious piece about anti-Semitism and the intersections and non-intersections between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism for a while now. I am still planning on doing so. But these are heavy, […]
The Attack on Bruce Lee Eid (Video)
[Originally posted on the All That’s Left anti-Occupation Blog] Recently in Haaretz, in a piece called “An Orgy of Violence and Closed Cases,” the indispensable Amira Hass called on the Israeli authorities to prove that […]
Interview by Jen Marlowe for the Nation: “What a week of Extremist Violence Reveals About Israel.”
”…Moriel Rothman-Zecher, an Israeli activist and blogger, was marching in the parade. A few hundred meters ahead, he saw the crowd scatter and begin to scream. He heard someone call out that people had been stabbed. […]
As Predicted, Ayelet “Little Snakes” Shaked is calling for “death penalty for Jewish Terrorists ”
Quick post. Just wanted to update regarding part of the piece I wrote last week in +972 Magazine, ”Why the Left must oppose administrative detention for Jewish terrorists.” In it, I wrote: ”The outrage flowing from […]
Why the Left must oppose Administrative Detention for Jewish Terrorists (+972 Magazine)
[This piece was originally published in +972 Magazine on August 5th, 2015; Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org] Jewish extremists are suspected to have been behind the heinous murder of an 18-month-old Palestinian child in the West Bank last […]
A Twitter-Photo Essay: “Just Another Strange Afternoon as a Guest in Occupied East Jerusalem.”
Ok. Time for a Twitter-Photo Essay. I'm going to call it.."Just Another Strange Afternoon as a Guest in Occupied East Jerusalem." Here goes: — Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) August 3, 2015 1. We arrived in Issawiya, […]
Jerusalem is boiling over
Waiting for the light rail next to the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, It is so hot I can barely think. Everyone I look at is wearing a similar expression, as if the heat is […]
Context, or, Why pro-occupation Israeli politicians’ condemnation of Ali Saad Dawabshe’s murder are not really condemnations at all
I just got home from the rally at Zion Square, and the parts of the rally that addressed the murder of 18 month-old Ali Saad Dawabshe left me feeling deeply upset, rather than hopeful. Indeed, […]
The Leftern Wall 