Refusing to Be an Enemy
06 Broken Promises

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.

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02 Green Movement in Iran
Iran’s Green Movement
One year after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, the political opposition to his leadership seems to be gaining momentum.
Justin McCauley
01/07/2010

“Sanctions are not Iran’s main problem, the economic incompetence of the government is,” insisted Prof. Ali Ansari, head of Iranian Studies at St. Andrews and one of the world’s leading experts on the Islamic Republic. Along with dozens of academics, journalists and experts, he had come to the event hosted by the Liechtenstein Institute in Viena (LIVA) at the Diplomatic Academy on Jun. 12 to discuss the phenomenon of the Green Movement in Iran.

13 The Wall
What Occupation? News From the Good Palestinians
Without context, cheerful reporting minimizes consequences and air brushes the challenges of the Israeli occupation
Alice Rothchild
01/07/2010

The June 6th NY Times Sunday travel section boasted a breezy article entitled “Ramallah Attracts a Cosmopolitan Crowd,” which felt more sinister than the usual come-to-once-dangerous-places-and-sip-groovy-drinks travel story. Michael Luongo focused on the hot new music, restored Art deco houses, and the idea that this city has become “a destination for thousands of young North Americans, Europeans and offspring of the Palestinian elite.”

09 Lipsynch
Lepage’s Lipsynch
A nine-hour theater marathon of planned improvisation at the Wiener Festwochen
Camilo C. Antonio
01/07/2010

With Lipsynch, Robert Lepage has gifted audiences to this year’s Vienna Festival with another one of his powerful theatre marathons – his distinctive civilizational, if playful, tool.

Lipsynch, a multilayered “dramedy” (an epic character story) is a re-enactment of what has been creatively constructed through hours of improvisational workshops since June 2005. The Quebecois artist presents the most unlikely characters that his internationally acclaimed ensemble keeps re-molding and stringing together.

The Voice for a Just Peace: Seeing the Human Face
An excerpt from Broken Promises, Broken Dreams, a collection of stories of Jewish and Palestinian trauma and resilience
Alice Rothchild
01/07/2010

Not long after Arafat took his final breaths in a hospital in France, his arch rival, Sharon, briefly sputtered and then sank into unconsciousness. Angry Jewish settlers were dragged from their homes in Gaza while the total Jewish settler population in West Bank continues to explode. Hamas won a democratic election to the Legislative Council, largely interpreted as a vote against corruption and ineptitude of Fatah, provoking a crippling international blockade. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rode to narrow victory with a plan to unilaterally make large Jewish settlement blocks in the West Bank permanently part of Israel.

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