Hello Dear Blobbiters, It’s Jesse again. Since we last spoke, Mori has returned to jail, some folks wrote some more stuff about that, and America had an election. Let’s go in reverse order. The election […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
A poem written on a shoe with a pen I snuck in my underwear into a skeletal cell in the IDF’s pre-jail holding center
For the last 26 hours I have been held in a Hollywood-worthy-in-its-draconionity cell in pre-jail arrest facility. I’m talkin’: metal bed frames in a white room decorated with dust, paint splotches and forlorn scribbles on […]
Here We Go Again
Here’s how it goes down: Me: Hello. Commander: Hello! What was a nice boy like you doing in jail? Me: Well, I’m a pacifist. C: Oh. Oh, I see. Oh. [type type type] M: Yeah… […]
The Blobbit, or There and Back Again
9:37 AM Yo. On my way back to the draft base. How I have missed the breath-taking views of fake grass and barbed wire! The expressions of searing boredom on almost all the olive-clad soldierlets’ […]
Video Update After 10 Days in IDF Military Jail #6
And for a different medium, at the suggestion of a fellow activist who I ran into on the bus home from jail, Anat Hoffman, who was recently arrested herself for praying at the Western Wall […]
Out of Jail
Well. So. Um. Hello there. Top of the virtual morning to you all. I am, as can be ascertained by the fact that I’m blobbing, out of jail for now, although I have to report […]
Plastic Forks and Unusual Rhythms
Here are some observations directly from Mori. As is his wont, the sentences get short and become fragmented when the ideas get more spiritual. I think that is probably appropriate. There are some things we […]
What Am I Trying To Do
Mori is still sitting in prison and I am still filling in on this blogalog. They are having him stomp around while wearing an army hat and, as far as I understand, sit around for […]
Why Not Not Refuse To Serve in The IDF: Contact Info, Haaretz Articles, and Responses
Information trickles in. Mori is enjoying the idyllic vistas of Northern Israel in a twenty person tent, where he is, more than anything else, waiting around. He is expected to be released next Thursday and […]
Update: 10 days, and an interview in Hyper Vocal
We found out recently that Moriel is up North in a military prison, where he will be detained for the next ten days. After that they will presumably release him in order to allow him […]
The Leftern Wall 