In her new book On the Brink, Alice Rothchild chronicles a visit to Palestine at the height of Israeli raids on the West Bank this summer. She has returned to a country where Jews are at last wrestling with the issues: is Jewish privilege over Palestinians consistent with liberalism? is there any possibility of a two-state solution given John Kerry’s negotiating failure?

Rothchild has been sending posts back to friends from her visit to Palestine. This is…

Alice Rothchild shared this diary entry with friends from American Jews for a Just Peace…

The sherut drops me in front of the dusty Jerusalem Hotel, a former Arab mansion, where I…

I often encounter some metaphorical weirdness on my flights to Israel and true to form,…

Jerrycans of water in Madama The drive to Nablus is uneventful, unlike the experience of…

The unrecognized village of Al-Araqib Today we take the long drive south to the Naqab…

Beit Sahour Iyad Rishmawi appears to be an older respectable kind of gentleman, balding, neatly…

As we noted yesterday, Alice Rothchild has been filing from Palestine. This post first appeared…

Visiting and staying overnight at the Balata Refugee Camp in the Yafa Cultural Center guest…