Quick post. Just wanted to update regarding part of the piece I wrote last week in +972 Magazine, ”Why the Left must oppose administrative detention for Jewish terrorists.” In it, I wrote: ”The outrage flowing from […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
Why the Left must oppose Administrative Detention for Jewish Terrorists (+972 Magazine)
[This piece was originally published in +972 Magazine on August 5th, 2015; Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org] Jewish extremists are suspected to have been behind the heinous murder of an 18-month-old Palestinian child in the West Bank last […]
A Twitter-Photo Essay: “Just Another Strange Afternoon as a Guest in Occupied East Jerusalem.”
Ok. Time for a Twitter-Photo Essay. I'm going to call it.."Just Another Strange Afternoon as a Guest in Occupied East Jerusalem." Here goes: — Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) August 3, 2015 1. We arrived in Issawiya, […]
Jerusalem is boiling over
Waiting for the light rail next to the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, It is so hot I can barely think. Everyone I look at is wearing a similar expression, as if the heat is […]
Context, or, Why pro-occupation Israeli politicians’ condemnation of Ali Saad Dawabshe’s murder are not really condemnations at all
I just got home from the rally at Zion Square, and the parts of the rally that addressed the murder of 18 month-old Ali Saad Dawabshe left me feeling deeply upset, rather than hopeful. Indeed, […]
A Night of Horror: Stabbing at Jerusalem Pride; Murderous Burning in the West Bank
Yesterday afternoon, Kayla and I made our way into central West Jerusalem for this year’s Jerusalem Pride Parade. It was a sunny, crisp afternoon, and we met up with a friend, Jenna, whom we’d met in Berkeley […]
UPDATE: Susiya’s High Court Discussion Delayed; Demolitions Likely Delayed Also
[Note: This post has been altered to account for updated language and information]. This is the update from Rabbis for Human Rights and “Free Jerusalem,” a few of the many groups of activists and organizers working […]
A Response to the Israeli Embassy’s Response Re: Susiya (Snark Warning).
This morning, I got a response to a form-letter I had sent to the Israeli Embassy in London regarding Susiya. In reading the text, I was immediately struck by how expertly they succeeded in saying almost […]
IDF “discovers” that Palestinian Susiya is Palestinian Owned (Coincidence?)
This was the article on the front page of Haaretz this morning: You can read the full piece here. It is too early to say what this will mean, in practice, but I think it is […]
An American-Israeli’s reflections from Germany: I am indigenous-dispossessed here (Haaretz)
[This piece was originally published in Haaretz on July 23rd, 2015] AUGSBURG, Germany — I am indigenous here. I am indigenous-dispossessed here. I was born in West Jerusalem and raised mostly in Southwest Ohio, and […]
The Leftern Wall 