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: Guest Posts
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 […]
“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 […]
The things we’ve lost (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Rebecca Hughes Today I reread an email I wrote to a friend on September 9th, 2009 – one year and one day after I moved to Israel. Moving to Israel has been my […]
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 […]
“I have never been more conscious of my womanhood.” (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Leanne Gale. This piece was originally posted on Leanne’s crucial blog, Fugitive Moments of Compassion. I have never been more conscious of my womanhood. 1. I stood and looked on in the center […]
Facing the Massacre with Eyes Shut Tight (by Idan Landau)
MRZ: My own process, in which I began to shift from a liberal to a leftist, from a Zionist to a non-Zionist, from someone who generally believed Official State narratives to someone who generally rejects […]
“Pack of hypocritical traitorous autoantisemites.” (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Yuval Orr It is hard to escape the suffocating sense of violence and despair that chokes the air these days, even as it nonchalantly masquerades as a sense of normalcy around Tel Aviv. […]
To “Dave” Who is Loved: The Wall in Palestine, as seen from the remains of the Berlin Wall (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Kayla Rothman-Zecher My fingertips trace years of color. Years of black outlines to words which tell stories. Some serious, some trivial. Like: “I eat cheese” or, “I love Dave”. But, as my fingers trace, […]
The Leftern Wall 