Anti-Zionist Israeli Susan Nathan, launches book

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Friday June 17, 2005 18:51 by Tom Lonergan - IPSC tomlon777 at eircom dot net

Susan Nathan will launch her new book "The Other Side of Israel: My journey across the Jewish-Arab divide" in the Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin, at 7.30 PM on Monday 20th June, under the auspices of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

In 2003, UK-born Susan Nathan moved from her comfortable home in Tel Aviv to Tamra, an Arab town in the northern part of Israel. Nathan had arrived in Israel four years earlier and had taught English and worked with various progressive social organizations. Her desire to help build a just and humane society in Israel took an unexpected turn, however, when she became aware of Israel’s neglected and often oppressed indigenous Arab population. Despite warnings from friends about the dangers she would encounter, Nathan settled in an apartment in Tamra, the only Jew among 25,000 Muslims. There she discovered a division between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs as tangible as the concrete wall and razor-wire fences that surround the Palestinian towns of the West Bank and Gaza.