Alice Rothchild
Alice serves as mentor liaison for We Are Not Numbers. She is an American obstetrician-gynecologist, Palestinian rights activist, and author.
In 2023 she published Finding Melody Sullivan, a young adult novel exploring grief and friendship in the setting of broader political questions raised by realities in Israel/Palestine, available in print and as an audio book, and a middle grade novel, Old Enough to Know, about a nine-year-old Palestinian American boy and his grandmother from the Aida Refugee Camp.
Earlier books include Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine (2017); On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion (2014); and Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience (2007, 2nd. ed 2010). She also produced the documentary film, Voices Across the Divide (2013). She has contributed to a number of anthologies, most recently, Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation (2019).
Alice served as an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School until November 2013, and is currently retired from clinical medicine, serving as a corresponding member of the faculty of the medical school. Since 1997, she has focused much of her energy on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
In addition to the links below, Alice can be followed at Substack and at her websites, Alicerothchild.com and alicerothchildbooks.com.
Last updated February 2024
