Hate
What is hateful to thee, do not do unto thy fellow Rabbi Hillel It is indeed human nature to hate the man whom you have injured. Tacitus
Children
Children in Albany, Georgia A small Deep South town Where the atmosphere of slavery still lingered Mass demonstrations took place In the winter of 1961 And again in 1962 Of twenty-two thousand black people in…
The Way It Looked in 1948
A small reaction does not impress anyone. A destroyed house–nothing. Destroy a neighborhood, and you begin to make an impression. David Ben-Gurion
The Way It Looked in 1999
Oslo required us to forget and renounce our history of loss and dispossession by the very people who have taught everyone the importance of not forgetting the past. Thus, ironically, we are the victims of…
Adelante
We’ve had our chat. Now It’s time to live like saints. Leonel Rugama, Nicaragua revolutionary
The Way It Looked in 1982
In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of…
Righteous Israelis (Resisters [Torah])
Stephen Langfur was born in the U.S. and was a Conscientious Objector during the American war of destruction in Vietnam. When he moved to Israel, he joined the Israel Defense Forces but later refused to serve…
The Summons
We refuse to be strangled by the wall in silence. In a famous Palestinian short story by Ghassan Kanafani, “Men in the Sun,” Palestinian workers suffocate inside a tanker truck. Upon discovering them, the driver…
Initial Questions about Preparation for Going to Work in Palestine
How do you prepare, state-side, for sound bombs? How do you prepare for beatings, tear gas? How do you role play that? How do you get yourself ready for sleep deprivation? How do you prepare…
Library Pick-me-up
After an invigorating brainstorming visit with Courtney Barrett at Kayak’s I headed home down Lindell then remembered I had books to pick up Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics and Twayne’s revised edition of Allen Ginsberg Waiting…