“I began to lose hope that Abdallah would get medical care, until you all made it a reality. Thank you, from deep within a mother’s heart, a heart which is filled with pain for her […]
Tag: Gaza
Please Help – 6 year-old Abdallah from Wadi Gaza needs medical support immediately
A few days ago, a dear friend of mine, Jen Marlowe, called me to ask if I could help with something. She had gotten to know a family, the Abu Kash family, in her recent […]
The Leftern Wall’s Top 14 from 2014
2014 was a heartrending year, filled with some devastatingly low lows and a few moments of decency shining between the cracks. There’s been substantial interest in the goings-on here in Israel-Palestine in general (especially in July-August, 2014), and […]
4 Suggestions for an American Jew navigating Israel-Palestine discourse during the Gaza crisis and in general (Part 1 of 2)
”I come from an orthodox background, and the fact that I am no longer religious makes my opinions even more easily dismissable. Right now I’m just at ‘I refuse to take sides’ and ‘I don’t […]
Unanthem
Guest writer: Casey Tova Markenson Blue fire rains explosive in my sleep. Faces erased: Omar al-Fyumi. Twenty three. Black shirts pray in protest streets. If I am not for me, who will I be. Hymns […]
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 […]
“Symmetry,” or, When Armed Men Don’t Need Terror Tunnels to Kidnap and Kill
Can you imagine– scores of armed men, who do whatever their leaders tell them to do, could kidnap or kill whoever they wanted if they came in through those tunnels? Can you imagine– tens of […]
“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 […]
Udi Segal, 19, refuses to serve in the army and is sent to jail (July Story Journal)
[Co-written,interviewed, filmed and edited with the indomitable Yuval Orr; originally published in +972 Magazine] For the past month, the news in Israel/Palestine has been filled with reports ofmore and more people killed, the vast majority […]
Pepper Sprayed & Pursued in North Tel Aviv
It happened after the demonstration -the biggest in Tel Aviv against the war yet, estimates of over 6,000 demonstrators- had mostly dispersed. The now-familiar group of right-wing demonstrators had worked themselves up into a frenzy throughout […]
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