11/24/2023
Suzanne Ross was born in Antwerp, Belgium just a couple of years before the N***s invaded and occupied that country. Her father was born in Nuremberg, Germany and her mother in Lodz, Poland, both came from East European traditional Jewish families. Once the N***s invaded her parents decided to leave Belgium immediately. She, Her parents, brother, three years older than her began their five year odyssey , initially with much of our extended family but soon on our separate route, through Europe, North Africa, Palestine, where her and her brother lived in a Kibbutz, and ultimately the US, by 9, living in an Orthodox Jewish community in Queens, attending Jewish religious schools where Suzanne became Zionist.
Suzanne joined Barnard in 1955 and Columbia in 1959 attaining a PhD in clinical psychology. In the early 60s, she joined the anti-war movement, engaged in the South African, Cuban and Vietnam liberation struggles and the Columbia student Uprising of 1968,
Suzaane spent her early years working working as a psychologist in the racist and classist institutions of New York, including locked adolescent psychiatric wards, a five year embattled stint teaching at Lehman College, the Weather Underground, and finally the Free Mumia Abu Jamal movement, the movement to support and free all political prisoners, and gradually the abolitionist movement.
In her youth trying to transform the world around her, the world would transform Suzanne Ross, whose work made her question her commitment to the official Israel narrative. And as her love of Judaism grew, her criticism of Zionism grew, and today Suzanne calls herself anti-Zionist and joined the Palestinian struggle.
Suzanne Ross was born in Antwerp, Belgium just a couple of years before the N***s invaded and occupied that country. Her father was born in Nuremberg, Germany and her mother in Lodz, Poland, both cam
