Guest writer: Elazar Weiss On the 22nd day of your 8th Order* you get 24 hours off. All you want to do is run away, to some small island of sanity. Just for a few […]
Category: Gaza
The Catastrophe of Losing Everything You Own (July Story Journal: Gaza)
Guest writer: Kamal* from Gaza We received warnings from the Israeli military that our whole area in northern Gaza must evacuate. I left home with my wife and seven children and took shelter in the […]
“Symmetry,” or, When Armed Men Don’t Need Terror Tunnels to Kidnap and Kill
Can you imagine– scores of armed men, who do whatever their leaders tell them to do, could kidnap or kill whoever they wanted if they came in through those tunnels? Can you imagine– tens of […]
“We saw death in every step and I can’t believe I’m still alive” (July Story Journal: Gaza)
Guest writer: Itaf from Gaza.* I’ve lived through two days that I could never have imagined. When the bombing intensified, I fled the house with my husband and two year old son. Hundreds of people were […]
Pepper Sprayed & Pursued in North Tel Aviv
It happened after the demonstration -the biggest in Tel Aviv against the war yet, estimates of over 6,000 demonstrators- had mostly dispersed. The now-familiar group of right-wing demonstrators had worked themselves up into a frenzy throughout […]
8 questions about the “oops” justification
We are told: There is a fundamental difference between the Israeli regime and the Hamas regime. It is named as “intent.” Hamas intends to kill many (and actually kills few). Israel intends to kill few […]
Damp minutes. July 22nd, 2014.
Today was overflowing with damp minutes, a morning siren that has become almost routine but still rings eery, conversations that do not and cannot cease to rip and weigh and that left me dizzy and […]
What is the connection between SodaStream and Gaza?
Guest writer: Jacob Udell A few months ago, during the days when the occupation seemed somehow more mundane, back when over 100 senseless deaths in the span of 24 hours would have felt unexpected, Scarlett […]
Meanwhile in Haifa: One demonstrator tells of being punched in the head in the “City of Tolerance”
Guest writer: Samuel Tell I am a demonstrator. I’ve been to demonstrations in Hebron (where I almost took a tear-gas grenade to the head), Nabi Saleh, Bil’in, etc. Tonight was the first time I felt […]
One man holding an olive branch in silence (July Story Journal)
Another demonstration tonight, in Tel Aviv. More than a thousand are gathered. The air is serious, heavy. Not much chatting, as is often the case at demonstrations in central Tel Aviv. Instead: chanting, drumming. Across the […]
The Leftern Wall 