A coffee shop in Tel Aviv
I’m back in the States now, with no immediate plans to return to Israel/Palestine. But here’s a final image, from another walk down near the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. Drawn by the ...
Read More
Yearly Archives: 2013
A ride in the countryside
Saturday was my last day in Ramallah, and Amira Hass had offered to drive me around the outskirts of the city to see the many settlements that encircle it–she calls this her “5-star prison ...
Read More
Another transportation story
On my way to return books to the Hebrew University Library and close my account there, I get off the #18 bus at the base of Ammunition Hill. Usually I would either walk from ...
Read More
The bedouins of the Negev
On a visit to Beersheba, I was driven a few kilometers out of town by the geographer Oren Yiftachel to see some of the Bedouin communities there. Bedouin villages don’t look like villages in ...
Read More
An early morning walk in Tel Aviv
It’s nine a.m. and the shops haven’t yet pulled up their shutters on this pedestrian shopping street down near the bus station. This is a corner of the city not much advertised, a relatively ...
Read More
On hating or not hating Jews
When I arrived, back in January, I was asked to take over the supervision of the final projects of several students working towards a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. They had been studying ...
Read More
Some transportation stories
I took this photo on the light rail on my way into Jerusalem yesterday. The train comes in from Pisgat Ze’ev, a large settlement north of the city, and goes through some Palestinian neighborhoods ...
Read More
Still more on Independence Day in Abu Dis
If you look back at the photo of IDF soldiers launching tear gas at stone-throwers in Abu Dis (see April 16th post), you’ll see that they had taken up a position downhill from the ...
Read More
Hemmed in in Silwan
In Pastoral in Palestine (pp. 72-88) I reported how the extension of “The City of David,” an archaeological site adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City, and the introduction of settler households within the texture of ...
Read More
More on stone-throwing in Abu Dis
Posted on today’s on-line edition of The Electronic Intifada is a video of an IDF patrol back in Abu Dis, yesterday, Friday April 19th, and using a handcuffed Palestinian teenager as a shield as ...
Read More