• End the Genocide! Dismantle Apartheid!

On Tuesday, October 7th, the Green Party of New Jersey (GPNJ) and Madelyn Hoffman will hold their rescheduled book launch for Hoffman’s recently published book, “A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across an Apartheid Wall can Change Lives”, Europe Books. The event will take place at the HUUB, 35-47 Cleveland Street, Orange. The Green Party of New Jersey invites the public to attend. Hear from the author, Madelyn Hoffman, voices of Palestinians, Lily Benavides for Governor 2025 and more.

This date coincides with the beginning of the 3^rd year of this current phase of the Israeli/US genocide against the Palestinian people, both in Gaza with the announced intention of destroying Gaza City and ever intensifying illegal settler aggression on the occupied West Bank.

Attendees will hear from Palestinian voices and US activists in the struggle to end the US/Israeli genocide and erasure of the Palestinian people. All proceeds from the sales of the book will be sent to a family on the West Bank (the inspiration for the book) and a family struggling daily to survive on the Gaza Strip.

As the ongoing genocide crosses into yet another year, there are so many signs of increasing international opposition from the Sumud Flotilla, to the proposed Uniting for Peace resolution at the United Nations and growing anger at Israel’s constant violation of international law.

“Apartheid is against international law,” offered author and activist Madelyn Hoffman, who visited the West Bank in December 2013 and wrote the book based on what she saw and experienced. “I never thought that this book, initially written for young adults, would be so relevant when published.”

All proceeds from the author’s sales of this book will go to Palestinians and their families, one family still living in Gaza under inhumane conditions, including forced starvation, and the other family, the one which inspired this book, living in continually deteriorating conditions in Al-Khalil on the West Bank.

“Unfortunately, it isn’t hard to see how apartheid can so dehumanize the other that they feel empowered to throw garbage on the heads of their so-called enemy, then go from that to attempting to destroy their lives completely. Former defense minister and indicted war criminal Jo’av Gallant called Palestinians ´human animals’ and then ordered there to be no water, no electricity nor other necessities allowed into the Gaza Strip. This full-fledged tragedy for the world and for humanity is unfolding in real time. Those with the power to stop it are only egging it on. I hope the message of my book will provide an opportunity for dialogue about an international response of solidarity by the people.”

For more information about donating toward the book, the author’s background and how and where to meet the author, please visit her webpage at www.madelynhoffman.com/a-fleeting-glance.  

Here's a brief look at the story of A Fleeting Glance.

It follows Mariam and Miriam as they come of age under the shadow of apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. The story follows the two girls for over a decade, starting when both are 8 years old. Mariam, a Palestinian, sees Miriam, an Israeli settler, also 8 years old, through the wire netting constructed by Palestinians to catch the garbage and human wastes that settlers throw on the heads of the indigenous people of the land. Miriam watches her mother casually throw garbage into the netting with the intent to harm Mariam and her father. At that moment, these two girls catch a fleeting glance of their “enemy” and are unsettled by how much they resemble one another. Over the years, Miriam grows more disgusted with the system that turned her own parents into the kind of people who would feel empowered to dump garbage on the heads of children, while Mariam tries not to fall into a cycle of hatred and dehumanization against the oppressors of her people. All along, they both remain haunted by a moment that could have allowed them to see and hear one another. However, they know this to be impossible under the Israeli system of apartheid and the Israeli subjugation of the Palestinians.

All proceeds from the author’s sales of this book will go to Palestinians and their families, one family still living in Gaza under inhumane conditions, including forced starvation, and the other family, the one which inspired this book, living in continually deteriorating conditions in Al-Khalil on the West Bank.

A member of this family acted as my guide during my 2 ½ day visit there and pointed out the wire-netting, constructed by Palestinians and suspended over the stone road of the old city of Al-Khalil.

“Unfortunately, it isn’t hard to see how apartheid can so dehumanize the other that they feel empowered to throw garbage on the heads of their so-called enemy, then go from that to attempting to destroy their lives completely. Former defense minister and indicted war criminal Jo’av Gallant called Palestinians ´human animals’ and then ordered there to be no water, no electricity nor other necessities allowed into the Gaza Strip. This full-fledged tragedy for the world and for humanity is unfolding in real time. Those with the power to stop it are only egging it on. I hope the message of my book will provide an opportunity for dialogue about an international response of solidarity by the people.”

For more information about donating toward the book, the author’s background and how and where to meet the author, please visit her webpage at www.madelynhoffman.com/a-fleeting-glance. All proceeds from donations made toward the book, on Madelyn Hoffman’s webpage through PayPal and through JohnFenlon with Zelle and Venmo will be split between Palestinian families on the West Bank and in Gaza.

www.madelynhoffman.com/a-fleeting-glance

For more information contact:

Barry Bendar at [email protected]
Madelyn Hoffman at [email protected]