Because Israel should attack Iran!!!!!!! Shplaargh!!!! Just Kidding. It shouldn’t. On a serious note, though, I have recently begun to seriously question whether the Israeli Left should be spending time protesting a potential Israeli attack […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
Bruchin is Officically a Settlement! Israel Hayom Reports. Moriel Rothman Translates.
Israel HaYom: “Bruchin outpost in Samaria officially recognized as settlement.” RothmanTranslation: Israel feels so confident that America will do nothing more than cluck its congressional tongue that it has commenced a blatant consolidation of its Apartheid-like […]
“Ohio” by Moriel Rothman
For the crew All the glory of sidewalk conversations, four o’clock antemeridian. Five of us: Kicking pebbles Half bored Half stoned Half in love with the world And “we ain’t leaving till six in the […]
Palestine Pop Quiz! Helicopters, Soldiers, Eviction Orders & More!
Scenario: The Israeli Army lands two helicopters near your village in the Southern West Bank. Let’s call it “Jenbah.” (Sounds authentically oriental). Soldiers pour out of the ”choppers.” They are heavily armed. Their faces are […]
On Jay Michaelson’s Essay On One-Statism, Jewish-Statism, Criticism & the Intersections (and Non-Intersections) Between Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism (Or, The Privilege of Blogging is that You Don’t Have to Make Up Cute-Catchy Titles)
This week, American Jewish writer Jay Michaelson wrote a piece in the Jewish Daily Forward castigating “the Left” for disingenuousness in their criticism of Israel and/or its Occupation. In it, he highlights the following four […]
Angels in Three Iterations
Iteration I: Speaking of Angels– Cooing Calmness on Cotton Clouds Lolloping lakes of lilting liquid love Floof from forgotten forests of fog. Mountainous molars of music munch Into sonorous skies of silent sound. Harbors humming […]
Wow! IDF Army Radio Stands with Susiya! Wait… “Susiya” or “Susya?” Is this a stunning internal-army-rebellion for justice, or just a summertime-speicial bit of apartheid-radio?
Galei Tzahal, Israel’s Army Radio, has been broadcasting up a creative desert-storm, if you will, this summer. Or so I’ve heard from others who have heard that others have heard (not a huge IDF Radio […]
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Post-Hip Euro-Consciousness and the Guardian Goose of Amsterdamian Waters
I’m back! And, inspired by a few weeks of with one of my dearest friends from elementary school, hitch hiking around Northern Europe (from Aarhus, Denmark to Amsterdam), reading excessive amounts of David Foster Wallace […]
Jerusalem (Tisha B’Av Edition with “Professional Assistance”)
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The Leftern Wall 