Alice Rothchild talks to Phil Weiss about her new young adult novel, Finding Melody Sullivan.
In its sixth year, the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival will feature discussions with filmmakers Annemarie Jacir and Saeed Taji Farouky, as well as a panel discussion including US filmmaker and social-justice activist Dr. Alice Rothchild to accompany the UK Premiere of documentary Jews Step Forward.
Eric Alterman dismisses BDS in the NYT, saying it is a youthful fad that only obscures the underlying issues. Alice Rothchild responds that it is important because of those issues — Israeli racism, Jewish privilege, and Palestinian dispossession.
At a session on reproductive health at Aida refugee camp in Palestine, a community health worker asks, “In our political condition, men in prison get their sperm out, illegally, to women. What is the best condition for the sperm to be in?” Alice Rothchild, a visiting doctor, tries to imagine the conditions and desperation that lead to this practice.
Iraqis throughout the Middle East remain unregistered, uncounted, unassisted and unprotected. But Alice Rothchild visits the Collateral Repair Project in Amman, begun in 2006, which serves 10,000 families a year and teaches everything from Capoeira, to music, to English, to mind-body medicine.
In her book, “Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine” Dr. Alice Rothchild emotes courage and sincerity to a degree that begs analysis: Who is she addressing and to what end? The book’s title answers the latter of the two interrelated questions: All those who are genuinely concerned with Israel/Palestine should better rush to resuscitate their critically ill charge before it is too late because “the Israeli government is on a suicide mission.” All through her book Dr. Rothchild bears witness to how critical and unjust the condition is.
Deaths of Palestinian infants due to cold have occurred not just recently in Gaza but for years in the Galilee. The answer from the Israeli Health Ministry was to blame the victim by saying the problem could only be addressed by community development, Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh reports