Is this still my country? Sarah Levy has been asking herself ever since Israel’s right-wing nationalist government began dividing the Israeli people. Then Hamas launches a brutal attack on the country on October 7, 2023. The war that ensues radically changes the life of the young Israeli-German mother, and that of most people in the Middle East.
Levy flees with her partner and child to her hometown of Frankfurt – but the war follows her to Germany and the place she grew up in no longer feels like home. She returns to Israel, only to find a nation fighting for its soul. Friends suddenly carry weapons, relatives call for the eradication of Palestinians, and longing for peace is considered treason. Life between bomb shelters and constant loss pushes Levy to her limits: as a mother, as a partner, and as a German Jew who comes to understand that the country she chose to live in no longer believes in peaceful co-existence with the Palestinians.
With critical compassion, Sarah Levy describes how radicalization and polarization are transforming a country – and ultimately herself.
"For all those seeking shades of gray beyond the polarized Middle East debate." Saba-Nur Cheema
