Check it. I open, then Mohammad El Kurd spits his fantastic piece on Jerusalem, Jasiri X, a hip-hop artist and poet from Pittsburgh comes next with verses on different-and-similar oppressions, and Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi […]
Search Results for: Sheikh Jarrah
Good News from Sheikh Jarrah!
The Shamasneh family in Sheikh Jarrah expected to be evicted from their home tomorrow, March 1st. Today, we discovered that the Jerusalem District court has ordered the eviction process to be frozen until further discussion […]
Where Have All the Bloblets Gone? (Updates on Sheikh Jarrah, Natan Blanc, Beit Safafa and More)
Long tiiiime passing. Where have all the bloblets gone? Long time agoooo. What up. As some of you (whoever the You’s out there may be) may have noticed, I’ve been blobbing (and facebooking) much less […]
On Home
I have actively loved my home since April 1st, 1998. I am sure that before that, as a kid in Jerusalem and Haverford, I must have loved my home in an abstract, whelpy sort of […]
Yom HaAtzmaut: A Third Day of National Mourning?
Yom HaShoah Last week, on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, I drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I flicked on the radio – Gal gal gal galgalatz – and for the next hour, I found […]
A 10:00 AM Demonstration Against the Planned Eviction of the Sub Leban Family; Next Steps
10:00 AM, Sunday, March 22nd: Ahmad Sub Leban, a friend and colleague, welcomes a group of about 60 activists and journalists outside of his family’s home in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City: “We are […]
Videos & Photos
Identities of Contradiction (25 min., 2011). An exploration of questions of identity, history and self-defition with Palestinian citizens of Israel living in the villages of Deir al-Assad, al-Bineh and Majd al-Krum. This film has been publicly […]
On the Bilingual School, Racist Arsonists & the Problem with “HaTikvah”
I debated for a little while whether to turn my Facebook status from this morning, which I wrote in Hebrew, into a more filled out blobpost in English. Here’s why I hesitated: 1. It felt […]
“Today you went into East Jerusalem?!?” (An aggressive interview with myself)
Are you crazy!?! According to the IDF I am… But seriously, you went into East Jerusalem today!?! In the midst of Armageddo- I mean- Intifad– I mean- you know what I mean? I did. I walked […]
5 Things the Jerusalem Municipality Should Not Do In Response to Today’s Attack
Reports are coming in right now that there was another violent attack against Israeli civilians in Jerusalem today, in which a driver intentionally ran over pedestrians near the Light Rail station in the neighborhood of […]
The Leftern Wall 