Michel Warschawski is a veteran journalist and peace activist. He founded the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Israeli news organization that disseminates information, research, and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while promoting cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis.
A Polish Frenchman and a rabbi’s son, Michel Warschawski left for Israel at the age of sixteen to study the Talmud and eventually became one of the most renowned figures of the Israeli left.
Warschawski’s involvement in radical politics led to inspiring alliances with Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Marxists. Yet as the border lines hardened, he became targeted by the Shin Bet, Israel’s notorious intelligence agents. Finally arrested, incarcerated, and interrogated for 20 days, Michel gives his readers an insider’s view of the psychological and political pressures that Shin Bet brought to bear, even on Jews, and never lets you forget the severity of treatment that his Palestinian colleagues faced.
