Author: Iris Keltz
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At The Crossroads of Justice
A debate that has been raging in my family for 53 years, is now being argued across the American-Jewish community. Peter Beinart, an influential Jewish-American journalist and intellectual, recently claimed that Jewish dehumanization of Palestinians is the greatest threat to a peaceful resolution. In 1967, a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem offered me sanctuary during…
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Turtle Dance 2020
1/2/20 Dear friends, It’s a quiet overcast snowy morning in Taos. The world is ready for a restorative slumber before the buds of spring burst fourth. I’m feeling blessedly peaceful. Yesterday I went to Taos Pueblo for the Turtle Dance, the first dance of the New Year, a dance I have gone to for as long…
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Hurricane Irma and the Six-Day War
Although Hurricane Irma, the fiercest tempest ever spawned by the Atlantic Ocean is now a collective memory and a historical footnote, it impacted me deeply. I found myself reliving one of the more terrifying moments in my life—hunkered down in a basement apartment in Ramallah hiding with a Palestinian family during a war that changed…
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Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land has finally been published
Nighthawk Press: Pub. date: May 1, 2017Historical Memoir, 293 pp. $19.95 paperbackAvailable at bookstores, online retailers, orNighthawk Presshttp://www.nighthawkpress.com/titles/unexpected-bride-promised-land/Iris Keltz might be the only Jew, American or Israeli, to have found sanctuary with the Palestinians during a war that changed the face of the Middle East. The Israeli military victory in 1967 should have been a…
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Boycott is Kosher
I was shocked when I first heard Jewish leaders in my community denounce the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement started by Palestinians living in the West Bank. Call me naive, but considering Israelis had been living under the threat of bombs exploding on buses, in shopping malls, restaurants, and other public places, there should…
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Shop Hebron
February 25, 2017 Palestinians living in Hebron are making a plea for international intervention to stop settler violence. Determined to fight for their human rights, fearless in the face of the Israeli military’s use of tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenades, the Palestinians are joined by Israeli and foreign and activists. They are…
Through My Eyes 