Next Year In Jerusalem

by Golan-Agnon, Daphna

• ISBN13: 9781565849303
• ISBN10: 1565849302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

From a pioneering Israeli human rights activist, a stirring memoir on life in the troubled region. Though brought up in a right-wing Israeli household as the daughter of a former member of the Stern Gang, Daphna Golan-Agnon has become one of Israel's most outspoken activists for the rights of Palestinians. In this moving memoir, she writes of the struggle of everyday life in a state edging ever closer to apartheid. Through anecdotes, interviews, and letters, Next Year in Jerusalem provides an insider's view of the milestones of the Israeli peace movement, drawing on Golan-Agnon's experience as co-founder of the human rights organization B'Tselem and the feminist peace group Bat Shalom. From the efforts to draw attention to the Ansar III desert prison, where Palestinian political prisoners once languished without trial, to the 1999 Israeli High Court victory abolishing torture, to the many misunderstandings that arise even among like-minded Palestinian and Israeli activists, Golan-Agnon candidly portrays the challenges of being part of a growing movement of Israelis who refuse to participate in the persecution of Palestinians. Confronting the Palestinian-Israeli dilemma in all its complexity, Next Year in Jerusalem gives readers a unique, personal view of the joint struggle for peace.

Author Biography

Daphna Golan-Agnon teaches human rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is the director of the Human Rights Internship Program at the Minerva Center for Human Rights.

Table of Contents

Introduction : only yesterday
The last class at summer school	p. 1
The dance for Jerusalem	p. 25
Compassion and the language of human rights	p. 54
A victory at the high court	p. 82
An Arab house	p. 98
On food, friendship, and normalization	p. 124
Separate but not equal	p. 168
Letter to Susan Sontag	p. 183
In search of an optimistic ending	p. 199
On the road to reconciliation	p. 244
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