Dr. Alice Rothchild helps us all look at what Israel has become, a violent and racist state. She does this by writing about those who suffer from the illegal occupation, the Palestinians.
She also offers hope. Although the establishment Jewish religion in the US supports almost everything the Israelis do, a younger generation of Jews do not want the apartheid state to define their cultural and religious identity.
How can the religion support human rights, and at the same time defend Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian lands? Dr. Rothchild cites PTSD from the Holocaust. The older generation who lived through the Nazi genocide can't really come to terms with what Israel has become. "Progressive except for Israel" is a symptom of fearful and dysfunctional thinking. Groups like Jewish Voice for Peace offer a way to support Israel without accepting Zionism with its ethnic cleansing and racist brutality.
