Reply to the Leftern Wall: Hitler was Right. Hitler did nothing wrong. That was the first thing I saw this morning when I turned on my phone. There is a backstory. Last night, just after […]
Category: Stories of Days
“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. […]
Nationalism from a distance, or, how it looks so ugly and absurd from here
I’m heading home tomorrow night, as long as the airport is still functioning. Tonight, we had pasta and wine and in the course of our conversation -which of course sloped political, but not only “our” political, […]
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, […]
Between Guilt and Regret as the Sirens Sound in Tel Aviv (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Angie Hsu* I did not want to come to work today. A combination of coming off the high of getting married five days ago, being surrounded by friends and family from all over […]
Reflections from a visit to the Abu Khdeir family’s home in Shuafat (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Liana Rothman.* It’s hard to explain the way things have been feeling in this area lately. The way people’s eyes seem just a little more suspicious and dubious these days. The way I […]
Guilt & The Twingling Sky in Southern Germany
I felt guilty for leaving. So much so, that I almost didn’t want to write this post, even though I’d promised to write a story every day for the month of July. Everything at home […]
Why These Five Israelis Demonstrated Outside of the Prime Minister’s House
More than a thousand Israeli demonstrators gathered outside of the Prime Minister’s house tonight to protest. I asked five why they were there: “I am here because I am against racism.” “I am here in […]
So are you for or against expelling all of the Arabs?
By Moriel Rothman-Zecher and Yuval Orr On the sherut ride back to Moriel’s house, we talk about what is happening in Jerusalem (mobs chanting “death to Arabs,” searching for Arabs to attack, etc.) and how we […]
Yes Please from the Glum Looking Falafel Man (July Story Journal)
I said that I would write or bring a story to words every day for July. As the politics swirl, and tropes abound, the world continues. So the Leftern Wall July Story Journal tale of […]
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