Refusing to Be an Enemy

Rothchild‘s book explores the complexity of Jewish Israeli attitudes and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza | Photo: alethonews.wordpress.com
Working against her heritage, Alice Rothchild takes an anti-Zionist stance in her latest book, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams.
01/07/2010
Anthony Löwstedt
In his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela makes a little known and seldom quoted observation. South Africa’s iconic liberation hero pays tribute to Bram Fischer, a white Afrikaner lawyer who defended Mandela and his ANC comrades in court against charges of terrorism, sabotage and high treason.
The grandson of an apartheid prime minister, Fischer made what Mandela called ‘in many ways…the greatest sacrifice of all:’ He went underground to continue resistance after his clients had been sent to work camps with life sentences. Then, he was arrested and himself sent to prison for life. With terminal cancer, Fischer was eventually let out of prison on humanitarian grounds a few weeks before his death.




