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3 weeks ago | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
There's a bridge in northern Israel, spanning the main artery of Road 6, that bears a banner with three simple words: "No Other Land." As I drove past it last week, returning to Jerusalem after a holiday in Haifa, I found myself pondering: was this message placed by a Jew or an Arab? If placed by a Jew, it could be a reference to the historic and biblical connection of our people to the Land of Israel and the right to a Jewish state.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Ittay Flescher
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1 month ago | 
jpost.com | Ittay Flescher
“War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.”These words were first etched in 1965 by Jewish artist Lorraine Schneider in response to the Vietnam War. It’s a statement I have always believed. Now a whole country knows just how true this is.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Ittay Flescher
Journalist and facilitator January 20, 2025 — 7.00pm January 20, 2025 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After 470 days of war that began with the horrific Hamas attack on October 7 and resulted in the decimation of Gaza by Israel, an agreement has finally been signed for a ceasefire and return of the Israeli hostages.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
As the ceasefire comes into effect, Israelis are anxiously awaiting the return of the hostages and soldiers will breathe a sigh of relief at the prospect of resuming normal life. But that life has changed, profoundly, in ways that do not get mentioned in the daily headlines about death and destruction. From psychological wellbeing to family relationships, business, the Jewish identity of Israelis and their attitudes to Palestinians, Israeli society has undergone an intense realignment.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
Israel Hamas WarOpinionIsraelOf all the factors that make peace impossible, perhaps the greatest is dehumanisation. This process of depriving individuals or groups of their human qualities is something I see all around me, and it breaks my heart. Dehumanisation often arises from psychological processes categorising others into “us” versus “them” groups. When individuals or groups are perceived as different or threatening, it becomes easier for people to justify collective violence against them.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
Few of these who opine on Israel-Palestine has ever tried to negotiate peace, let alone been in the room for decades of negotiations between the leaders of the Israeli and Palestinian people. Yair Hirschfeld is a rare exception. He has devoted his whole life to the process of diplomacy, an experience he has recorded in his recently-published memoir The Israeli–Palestinian Peace Process: A Personal Insider's Account.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
thejewishindependent.com.au | Ittay Flescher
If one had to choose one place in the US where a Jewish and Palestinian academic could co-teach a course on religion, journalism, and the Middle East, demonstrating respect and tolerance for differences, Columbia University might be the last campus most people would consider.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Hamutal Gouri |Ittay Flescher |Tal Kra-Oz |Sarah Tuttle-Singer
tweet share email print Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the author of Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem and a writer for The Times of Israel. In this three-part series, Sarah soundtracks her Israeli experience. Through a series of songs, Sarah takes us on her journey from her first visit as a teenager from Los Angeles to the present day, as a mother of three Israeli children in the aftermath of 7...
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
plus61j.net.au | Ittay Flescher
Visiting the camps left some students both shocked and empowered but there was little space to talk about the emotional impact, writes ITTAY FLESCHER, who taught at Melbourne Jewish schools for 15 years. What is the appropriate age to explore one of the darkest chapters in Jewish history? In 2014, Israel’s Education Ministry expanded its Holocaust teaching program to the entire school system, including kindergartens.
