Gayle Meyers, at The Blogs

Jun 11, 2023, 4:08 PM

Israeli protesters rally against the Government's plan to overhaul the judiciary in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2023. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

You can disagree with the Judean People’s Front (or the anti-occupation demonstrators) and still show up to protest

May 21, 2023, 12:28 PM

I live on the seam line between Arab and Jewish Jerusalem, and in 2021, young men who had come to town for the Flag March came onto my street after the march was canceled and harassed Arab residents until...

May 11, 2023, 10:24 PM

It won’t work

It won’t work. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, do you think we Jewish Israelis are so different from you that if you kill us two by two on the road and at bus stops, we will surrender? If you fire missiles at...

Mar 22, 2023, 5:04 PM

Yes, it was a pogrom

When Israeli Major General Amir Fuchs used the word “pogrom” to describe the civilian attack on the Palestinian village of Huwara last month, he knowingly used a word that resonates with Ashkenazi Jewish collective memory. The images of pogroms in...

Mar 10, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Pollard and me

Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York court house following his release from prison, after 30 years on November 20, 2015. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Did my colleagues at the Pentagon think I was a security risk because this man raised that specter of dual loyalty? What if they discovered I knew all the words of 'Hatikvah'?

About Me

Gayle Meyers began her career as a policy analyst in the US Department of Defense, fighting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and staffing the US-Israel Joint Political Military Group. She later directed the Middle East Regional Security program of Search for Common Ground. After moving to Israel, she worked for civil-society organizations promoting peace and a shared society for Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. She teaches at the Machon L’Madrichim (Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad) in Israel has designed, facilitated, or participated in more than a dozen conflict-resolution initiatives. Gayle received a bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She lives in Jerusalem with her family.

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