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...
Queering Zionism: Anti-hegemonic processes of change among Jews in Israel
Author: Eitan Bronstein Aparicio 06/2013
You get the feeling sometimes that we Israelis are born into Zionism as if it was a natural phenomenon that can’t be altered, like the construction of heterosexuality. My research describes the creation of an identity that we could shed – a physical characteristic we could be rid of, remove the Zionist blotch from our skin. That require...
The Nakba Thought Police
Author: Dr. Avner Dinur 05/2013
Ten minutes before the start of class, prior to my arrival, activists from “Im Tirzu” entered the room, distributed the booklets to students who had arrived early, showed a YouTube video claiming there had been no Nakba, said a few words and hurried away before I entered the room. It seems that “Im Tirzu” operates a intelligence network to ens...
Nakba day 2013
Author: Eitan Bronstein Aparicio 04/2013
This year for the second time the Nakba Day was commemorated at Tel Aviv University. It was initiated and organized by student with the help of Zochrot. They produced and distributed a Q&A booklet on the Nakba in Hebrew and Arabic and you can see it above....