Jody Mcintyre’s Life on Wheels

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 70 – Thoughts on Equality

By Jody Mcintyre Ni’lin really is a surreal place. When I first arrived in the small West Bank village that I would spend the next week in, I didn’t expect to see an orthodox Jewish settler getting his car fixed… I stared at him in complete disbelief, and he smiled and waved back. Stealing people’s land […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Monday, August 9, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 69 – Happy Birthday Haifa

By Jody Mcintyre The fact that we managed to smuggle a Palestinian girl from Ramallah through an Israeli check-point proves an important point; the Wall that they have built around the West Bank is not for security, and never has been. It is purely a symbol of the system of apartheid that Israel is imposing on […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Monday, July 26, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 68 – Home

By Jody Mcintyre I had a feeling that the Mossad were about to pull something on me. It all seemed too easy, but when I finally got through all the “security checks” in Tel Aviv, I was told that my wheelchair had been left in Rome. They should know by now that it will take a […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Wednesday, July 7, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week [19]67 – Remembering Palestine

By Jody Mcintyre This week, I travelled through Paris, Lyon and Geneve on my way to Frankfurt in Germany, to meet Hamde, who I lived with for most of my time in Bil’in, Palestine. Six months was a long time, so now he’s more than a brother. Although most of our three days together were full […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week [19]66 – World Cup Fever

By Jody Mcintyre These days, I don’t like football as much as I used to. It must be the first time in my life that I haven’t experienced the feeling of excitement and suspense as the World Cup explodes into action. With England’s first game up against the USA, I had no choice but to go […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

[SPECIAL EDITION] Week 65 – How Many More?

By Jody Mcintyre Saturday 5th June 2010, outside the Israeli Embassy at a demonstration of 20,000 people, London: “Five months ago, I was sitting on the beach in Gaza, watching the waves of the Mediterranean lapping onto the shore. If I was to return to Gaza today, the sea would be tinged red, with the blood […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Wednesday, June 2, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 64 – A Different Reality

By Jody Mcintyre As I was sitting on the steps of my close friend Fifi’s house in Catford, south east London, at around 1.30am, a man walked past asking for a cigarette. Fifi politely obliged. He came and sat down on the floor next to us, and Glen, as he introduced himself, turned out to live […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Sunday, May 23, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 63 – Telling The Truth

By Jody Mcintyre Returning to London, without any plans to think of, apart from reading books and taking down quotes which may come to some use in the future, has been a chance for me to reflect back on what I can only describe as a life-changing eighteen months. If one thing is for certain, I […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Saturday, May 8, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 62 – Talking About Dialogue

By Jody Mcintyre I think me and Kareem were both expecting to come across a barrage of Zionist questioners at every Norman Finkelstein event we spoke at, but it seems that times are changing; for the first half of the tour, such dissent was non-existent. We had to wait until the University of Arizona on May […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:00 - 1 Comment

Week 61 – “Are You Brothers?”

By Jody Mcintyre When I landed at Newark airport, plenty of uncertainty still hung in the air. I hadn’t yet met Norman Finkelstein, whose book tour I was supposed to be speaking on, and none of the universities hosting the events had actually booked me. As I was a last minute addition, no transport had been […]