Rachel Corrie’s Legacy: Striving for Justice and Accountability in the Face of Oppression

On March 22, 2023, The Jerusalem Fund held an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie at the hands of the Israeli regime. Rachel Corrie was an American human rights activist and a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). During the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, Rachel Corrie … Read more

Alan Rickman gave the greatest gift to my late daughter, Rachel Corrie

My family and I were saddened on Thursday morning to learn of the death of Alan Rickman – too sad to write our feelings at the time. Alan, of course, is famous as an actor and director, both on stage and in film. But we first came to know him when, with Katharine Viner (now editor-in-chief of the Guardian), he edited our daughter Rachel’s writing into the play My Name is Rachel Corrie. The care Alan took for our family, his courage to take on this particular project and, most of all, the respect he showed for Rachel and her writing, impress me still as truly extraordinary.