Palestinians, the conflict, and the shared future.
After years decades centuries of being hated as a Jew, there are few things more life-affirming than celebrating the founding of this country together with my fellow Israelis. That we finally have a country again, where we can just be our Hebrew selves and live our lives freely the way the good lord intended, does … Read more
Hi! You may be a new friend of mine. While I really like sharing poems and pictures of my baby daughter, and while I also hope to work together to help build the WordPress community in Israel, we’re living in interesting times, so you may have noticed a certain political tinge to some of my … Read more
It’s all one struggle. For Jewish rights. For Palestinian rights. For Black rights. For immigrants’ rights. For women’s rights. For the rights of every oppressed, disenfranchised, and/or persecuted group of human beings. Not because those people are all the same or their exact challenges are identical. But because the social system of wicked injustice that … Read more
I see your “Palestinians/Israelis are a made-up people” and raise you “Palestinians and Israelis are both made-up peoples descended from second commonwealth Israelites”
Zionism for Palestinians? I’ve been having great discussions with listeners to The Z Word ‘s first episode, my conversation with Palestinian author Mo Husseini . A central point of not conflict nor disagreement but, rather I would say, creative tension, between Mo and I was in the relevance of Zionism to Palestinians. Mo represented an … Read more
The Z Word – open and honest conversations with Palestinians and Israelis about Zionism, the land, the conflict, and the hope for a shared future… These are going to be an amazing series of convos. Barukh Hashem, I have some great guests lined up.
Yesterday I saw a video of an execution on Facebook. A row of kneeling men, shot in the head from behind. The person who shared the video asserted that the shooters were Hamas soldiers, the victims were men accused of “collaboration” with Israeli forces. From what little I could tell, this was the case. This … Read more
This will make some people irrationally mad but: Zionism must reckon with the devastation of Gaza. We’ve left behind the naive days when we waged war solely and wholly in self-defense, with great concern and cunning strategy to decisively end wars with as little human, moral, economic cost as possible. Rejecting the blood libels and … Read more
PSA to both Leftists and Right-Wingers: If all you know about the situation in Palestine is derived from memes and viral posts, and you haven’t done any research into the history of this land, or learned about the peoples who come from it, or even just talked to both Palestinians and Israelis who have lived … Read more
As more and more countries recognize a state with no contiguous territory, no means of self-defense, no independent monetary policy or funding, and no active popular legislature, I would like to renew my personal invitation to build a shared society in a single state, built on the infrastructure of the existing Israeli state, that grants … Read more