An essay on writing fiction in Jerusalem, on friendship in Jerusalem, on leaving Jerusalem, published today in the Paris Review’s The Daily blog: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/18/writing-fiction-shadow-jerusalem/
Category: Jerusalem
On Watching Jerusalem Writhing From Afar
Here goes, then. As many of you know, this past October, my partner Kayla and I left Jerusalem –after spending the past 15 and six years there, respectively — and moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio […]
Jerusalem Day & Naksa Day 2016
This year, Jerusalem Day fell on Naksa Day (the anniversary of the occupation). I found this poster, from a leftist group in the early 80s, a few weeks earlier: “Just don’t say you didn’t know!” […]
Monitoring Checkpoints, Radical Right-Wing Rappers, Virtual Death Threats & more.
Jerusalem, Fall 2015: where methods of collective punishment go virtually unchallenged, and where challenging these methods can get you death threats. I’ll explain. The Situation On October 1st, 2015, “the situation,” as it is euphemistically called […]
There is no such thing as a “revenge attack,” updated again.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “REVENGE ATTACK.” I first formulated this idea in response to the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, who was beaten and burned to death in 2014. In that post, […]
The Leftern Wall 