I popped into a cute little craft store. While browsing the cute little crafts, I overheard a conversation between the store’s owner and a potential customer. “This one’s nice!” Said the potential customer. She was […]
Month: November 2015
“Why does no one ask the Israeli Army about its nonviolence?”
I spent today with a group of Diaspora Jews in the Ofer Military Court and Nabi Saleh. The former was all dreary awfulness, a space filled with an invisible but palpable thick-sickly sludge of an absurdly unjust […]
On the blood just spilled near my favorite banana stand
I have nothing new to say about violence and nations. Nothing new to say about this place. About this city. Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing. Just the thought of red blood next to […]
Afternoon Mourning.
They worshipped: Like babies, maybe, vulnerable and hopeful God send us more goodness Or maybe they thought about sex Or taxes or or what snacks they would have next Doritos, maybe. Or their families. Maybe they […]
Monitoring Checkpoints, Radical Right-Wing Rappers, Virtual Death Threats & more.
Jerusalem, Fall 2015: where methods of collective punishment go virtually unchallenged, and where challenging these methods can get you death threats. I’ll explain. The Situation On October 1st, 2015, “the situation,” as it is euphemistically called […]
When a non-Jewish Palestine Solidarity Activist Calls out a Jewish MP for Antisemitism
There are those moments – rare, fleeting, glimmers in the grayscape of the internet, of the world – where I am reminded that the world has hope embedded in its strange human crust. The other day, […]
The Leftern Wall 