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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A Palestinian student teaches Jews about the Nakba
Author: Ansam Mawassi 07/2013
I told my family and friends; they were all shocked and didn’t believe me. It was a big surprise for them and, I admit, for me. We didn’t expect that an academic institution in Tel Aviv would want to address the fraught topic of the Nakba. No member of my family had yet been required to deal with the complexities of explaining the...