Alice Rothchild and Alan Meyers are Boston-area doctors who have led multiple delegations to Israel and Palestine. As members of The Health and Human Rights Project of American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP), they have worked with NGOs in clinics, hospitals and refugee camps. They will share stories and analysis from their most recent visit in January 2011 that included interviews with both Jewish Israelis and Palestinian activists in Israel and the West Bank.
The Forum will focus on issues of civil rights, water, health care, and the impact of occupation on both the occupiers and the occupied. Alice and Alan will describe the current state of checkpoints, the separation wall, the expanding Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as the rightward swing of Israeli politics.
They will also discuss the growing boycott, divestment and sanction movement as a nonviolent and creative option to move the possibilities for peace forward on a grass roots level in the face of years of stalled peace processes.
Alice Rothchild is a Boston based physician and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School who has been active in the women’s movement, (starting with contributions to the first Our Bodies Ourselves) and in health care reform. For the past 14 years she has focused her energies on understanding the Israel/Palestine conflict. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Boston Chapter of AJJP. She is the author of Broken Dreams, Broken Promises: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, (2nd edition 2010) and a contributor to Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, 2010. She is working on a documentary film exploring Palestinian stories of the Nakba and its consequences. For more info: see her website www.alicerothchild.com
Alan Meyers is a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. He has been active in medical solidarity work for nearly 40 years.
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: ARE PEACE AND JUSTICE POSSIBLE?is a collaboration between American Jews for a Just Peace and Jewish Voice for Peace/Boston.
Alan and Alice are members of the Steering Committee of the Boston Chapter of AJJP and coordinators of their Health and Human Rights Project.
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) works to achieve a lasting peace that recognizes the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination. It provides a voice for Jews and allies who believe that peace in the Middle East will be achieved through justice and full equality for both Palestinians and Israelis. With offices in New York and California, 100,000 online activists, chapters across the country and an Advisory Board comprised of numerous prominent Jewish thinkers and artists, JVP supports nonviolent efforts here and in Israel-Palestine to end Israel’s Occupation, expand human and civil rights, and implement a US policy based on international law and democracy.
American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP) is an alliance of activists in the United States working to ensure equal rights, safety, and dignity for all the people of historic Palestine. We were founded in Boston in September, 2008. AJJP operates as an alliance of autonomous chapters and individual members across the United States. AJJP is a grassroots, membership-driven network of activists who coordinate our collective work under a shared name and common principles. We are a predominantly Jewish organization and speak with a Jewish voice. However, we welcome the full and active participation of all people of good will who agree with our Common Ground.
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