Human rights NGOs in Israel: collective memory and denial
Author: The International Journal of Human Rights Volume 18, Issue 1, 2014 2014
This article discusses the complex interrelations between human rights, memory, forgetting and denial by analysing the discourses and practices of Israeli human rights organisations with respect to the past of the Palestinian people, particularly the events that took place in 1948. It examines how and why Israeli organisations dialectically reme...
Thank You for Doing the Filthy Work
Author: Ami Asher 10/2013
When I hear such testimonies, it feels as though time stood still in 1948, that we are still too traumatized to even begin recovering. Shavit also feels that way, as he concludes his articles by saying "columns like the column of Lydda never stop marching". There is only one way of stopping the column – without using a machine gun, please. We must ...
Photography as political activism
Author: Eitan Bronstein Aparicio 09/2013
I decided that photography would be part of my life, so I erased the boundary between the two. I live most of the time in the southern Hebron hills, so there’s no boundary between my life and the lives of those who appear in my photographs. They’re the major portion of my social life; I’m part of where I photograph
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