Guest post by Udi Raz* | Photos by Oren Ziv / ActiveStills These are hot, hot August days. I try not to be outside unless I have to, and keep refilling the water bottles in the […]
Category: West Bank
Sunrise in Susiya – A Poem for the Global Shabbat Against Demolitions
Photo by A. Daniel Roth. This Shabbat, activists in 15 locations around the world will hold events, actions and Shabbat services under the framework of a Global Shabbat Against Demolition (New York City, London, Pittsburgh, Susiya, […]
When the Cossacks Destroyed Plotsk to Create a Firing Zone
In the early winter of 1916, the Cossacks destroyed much of the Jewish shtetl of Plotsk. Plotsk had been home to around 80 people, pious poor peasants, many children, sweet, sad-eyed kids with dusty faces […]
Save the Date: “Occupation is not our Judaism,” July 10th-20th, 2016
Join folks from The Center for Jewish Nonviolence, from the All That’s Left anti-Occupation collective, and from other groups and movements, this coming summer, in saying: ”Occupation is Not Our Judaism.” Take part in nonviolent direct […]
Top 5 Posts of 2015
(1) 9 thoughts on the matisyahu disinvite, anti-semitism, anti-zionism and leftist discourse Published on August 17th, 2015. ”I want to invite others on the Left, Jewish and non-Jewish, to join the struggle against anti-Semitism in our […]
“Why does no one ask the Israeli Army about its nonviolence?”
I spent today with a group of Diaspora Jews in the Ofer Military Court and Nabi Saleh. The former was all dreary awfulness, a space filled with an invisible but palpable thick-sickly sludge of an absurdly unjust […]
Testimony Of Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Attacked By Jewish Extremist Armed With A Knife
This is the testimony given by my friend and mentor Rabbi Arik Aschermann, who was attacked by a Jewish extremist, armed with a knife, this past Friday, while accompanying Palestinians during the olive harvests near Nablus. I had […]
It was incredibly good to spend today in the West Bank
I spent today in the West Bank. I did so noting the really reasonable hesitations of my parents (I’d hesitate, too, were I my parents. There is, as you’ve all probably heard, a lot of tension and fear and […]
The Leftern Wall 