Today, Peter Beinart published a carefully worded- and thus more-hearable by mainstream Jews- Op-Ed in the New York Times. In it, he writes that American Jews should begin to “call the West Bank “nondemocratic Israel.”” In other, less-NYT-publishable/US-Jewry-acceptable words, the Apartheid Part […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
EL AL Flies Away From the JNF’s Sneaky Land Practices
And now for some good news, because good news is good. Recently, the Recognition Forum (of which Rabbis for Human Rights is a part) wrote to EL AL, criticizing their new program in cooperation with […]
It’s nice to be an anthropological phenomenon in Portugal
From a Portuguese national news channel’s photos of the day, in September.
International Women’s Day at Qalandiya Checkpoint
This morning, I wrote: “On this International Women’s Day, I think that everyone who self-identifies as a male needs to take some time to reflect about ways in which we as men contribute to the […]
Americans Go Home! (On the Absentee Property, Silwan and Racism)
My parents moved to Jerusalem from San Francisco in 1986. They bought a house in Baq’a, and my older sister and I were both born there. In the summer of 1989, my father, a professor […]
אמריקאים הביתה
המאמר הזה התפרסם לראשונה באתר העוקץ אמריקאים הביתה מוריאל רוטמן 04.03.12 יום אחד קיבלנו מכתב רשמי שטוען כי הבית שלנו הוכרז כ”נכס נפקדים”, ושעלינו לעזוב מיידית ללא פיצוי. לאחר שנעזוב את הבית הוא יועבר לחזקת […]
The JNF-KKL Seeks To Take Over Another Home in Silwan
The JNF-KKL is seeking to take over yet another home in Silwan, belonging to the Ruweidi family, by way of the “Absentee Property Law.” Here is a letter written by Juma’a Muhammad Saalim al-Ruweidi, 85, to the JNF […]
The Parallel Universes of Gerald Steinberg and Moriel Rothman
Welp. I was quoted by the Gerald Steinberg of the lovely organization known as NGO Monitor. Here’s the crazy thing: when I hear that I have been quoted by a far-right-winger, I usually wince, because […]
The Leftern Wall 