Chapter 1: I Am Born

I’m going to wait to publish this first blog entry until I’ve already arrived in Israel because I’m worried that I’ll write something that might irk the snoops in Israeli surveillance and give the government an excuse to deny me entry into the country. People (including myself) paid good…

The Wall

I was staring at the tall gray Wall, imagining the cement between the concrete slabs slowly melting. Blood red ants crawled out from between the cracks as the towering monoliths rocked back and forth.

Steadying myself, I looked up and saw a real high-resolution surveillance camera…

Tea at the Palaz of Shushan

In my younger and more vulnerable years I celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim by hanging out at my temple’s carnival in my purple Mordechai costume, playing low-rent carnival games, winning raffle prizes, and invariably taking home a bagged goldfish not long for this world…

The Strangulation of Susiya: State criminality as law enforcement

Drive an hour due south from Jerusalem, past Bethlehem and past the Israeli settlement Carmel with its Jewish National Fund pines, and near the bottom of the Occupied West Bank in the South Hebron Hills you’ll find Susiya. Depending on who you are, the name…

The Endangerment of the Child: How Israel’s Military Courts Routinely Violate the Rights of Palestinian Minors

International law is the minimum standard of justice that the countries of the world have agreed to abide by. It is by nature a compromise — a set of fundamental principles that both enemies and friends say they…