Ethan Schwartz, at The Blogs

Mar 2, 2022, 6:48 PM

The emergency refugee response on Ukraine’s Moldova border

The Ukraine Refugees Response Moldova - IsraAID

Alex is a single father in his forties. He had travelled for several days to reach the border. “Many people have had the same experience. They just jump in the car and try to escape,” he said. Arriving at Moldova’s south-eastern border with Ukraine at...

Jun 28, 2017, 11:38 AM

How the young Jews of Budapest are resisting the rise of hate

Hungary’s nationalist government is clamping down on human rights – and refugees, Roma and sexual minorities are under attack. I visited Budapest in May, on a programme run by UK Jewish human rights charity René Cassin. I was alarmed by the brazenly illiberal march of government...

Mar 9, 2017, 2:07 PM

Israel’s BDS ban embraces logic of the boycott movement

Another week, another highly contentious offering from Israel’s governing coalition. Last time, it was a law retroactively legalising the theft of privately-owned Palestinian land in the West Bank. This time, it’s a new law preventing entry to Israel by anyone who publicly calls for boycotts...

Feb 8, 2017, 10:53 AM

Burying the two-state solution with common theft

If you want to bury the two-state solution, this is the way to do it. In the two and a half weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President, the Israeli government has approved 5500 new homes in settlements across the West Bank, and a...

About Me

Ethan Schwartz is IsraAID’s Media & Communications Manager, working to tell stories from the organisation’s humanitarian programmes around the world. Born in New York and brought up in London via Harare, he now lives in Tel Aviv.