Latest Posts on all that’s write, atl’s blog
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Watching Checkpoints
In reality, the checkpoints serve as an extension of the national mission to humiliate and dehumanize Palestinians—collective punishment against tens of thousands of Palestinians for the crimes of a few dozen people. Free Jerusalem’s aim is to provide a sliver… Continue reading
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Let My People Talk: Open Hillel Takes on Jewish Federations
by Yonit FriedmanWe planned a protest to deliver a single demand: that within a month’s time, the Jewish Federations of North America state clearly and publicly that both the umbrella organization and all local Federations will not condition support for… Continue reading
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Podcast: A Conversation in Hebron
In this episode, Humble Mumbles happens upon a really cool fellow in Hebron, a city in the West Bank. We talk about Israeli soldiers v. Israeli police, Chosen People attitudes of entitlement, intifadas, neighborhoods. Most melodious episode ever. Continue reading
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A letter to the liberal Zionist who told me to go fuck myself last night
You were there to protect something: to protect a system and a state that protects you. I was there to protect something, too. I was there to protect the notion that all human beings—regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, class, color,… Continue reading
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Arabs Shall You Pursue: A Report Back from a New Resident of Jerusalem
As much as I can intellectually unpack the history that led us to this moment I can’t emotionally comprehend how we arrived at a juncture where Jewish crypto-fascists roam the streets of Jerusalem hunting racialized others in the night. Continue reading
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But holiday festivities make me sad these days
Today when the Shofar blew, I imagined hundreds of Jews wearing Tallitot, blowing the Shofar at Qalandia checkpoint. And then thousands of Jews marching through Jerusalem, blowing Tekiah and Truah and Shvarim in protest of occupation. Continue reading