I was recently asked by a few friends and colleagues for my opinion on studying at an Ein Prat program within the Green Line. The questions came to me as a followup to the post I’d […]
Category: Reflections & Analyses
Two Year Blobversary
It’s hard to believe that it has only been two years since I started this blog (or “blob,” as my friend’s grandfather would say), on January 30th, 2012. The first year of The Leftern Wall’s […]
Apologies
to all the nationalists offended by my last post. But, come on, guys. Enough. Think about it. It is. Really. (More soon).
Nationalism
is ridiculous.
“Some Gays are Nazis,” ie., the Brilliance of De-Collectivization, ie., a Graffito Revelation
I was riding in the bus this morning, near my new home in South Tel Aviv. Out the window, I saw the following graffito*, which at first caused me to double-take, and then sent me […]
[Still] Walking the Leftern Wall to Listen: A Blogalogue, Part II
[Last year, my dear friend Andrew and I co-wrote what we then dubbed a “blogaologue,” ie., a written dialogue between two bloggers and dear friends undertaking very different journeys but with deeply resonant philosophies and […]
Morsi’s Overthrow and Israel’s Disengagement from Gaza– 5 Striking and Unsettling Similarities
This morning, like most political bloggers and writers focused on the Middle East, I’ve been raptly reading the headlines about Egypt (and refreshing my twitter feed). To mix things up, I’ve also been keeping up […]
Bibi’s Peace Process Tent (Or: When “Peace Process” is the opposite of Peace)
[This piece was originally published on the Times of Israel] According to a recent interview in the Washington Post, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would “sit in a tent halfway between Ramallah and Jerusalem” in order to […]
Questions for Holocaust Memorial Day
Last year, I wrote a piece called “Detangling the Holocaust from Israeli-Palestinian Politics.” In it, I wrote about my initial reaction to the quick approaching Holocaust Memorial Day: a grim self-bracing for the deluge of […]
Five Actually Really Positive Points in Obama’s Speech (!)
(Palestine. Foreign Army. Anti-Violence. Pro-Nonviolence. Occupation and Expulsion). So. Huh. President Barack Obama just finished his speech here in Jerusalem, a few blocks away from where I am sitting. I want to get some thoughts […]
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