Imagining Return
Author: Tom Pessah 10/2012
But maybe imagine something different: a plane landing in Ben-Gurion airport with some “new immigrants” from the refugee camps in Lebanon. This really pompous politician is out to greet them, smiling from ear to ear. The first refugee comes down the steps and shakes people’s hands
Conflicted Space
Author: Danit Shaham 09/2012
The book reveals that the neutrality is only apparent, demonstrates the degree to which our space is the product of design and control guided by unequal national forces
Toward a Common Archive / Video testimonies of Zionist Fighters in 1948
Author: Eitan Bronstein Aparicio. Photographs: Eléonore Merza 09/2012
Documentaries almost always prefer victims to perpetrators. This exhibit is an attempt to document the accounts of bit players in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, to give the perpetrators a chance to tell their own stories
Photographing what remains of villages after the Nakba: An event concluding the exhibit “What isn’t there”
Author: Eitan Bronstein Aparicio 08/2012
The photographic act allows us to try to reclaim ownership of places that have been taken over by the state. The photographs anchor us to a future that transcends the violent use of the law to transform Palestine into Israel
A different trip to the village of Al-Bassa
Author: Shira Ben Shahar 06/2012
Today, Zochrot took us with “guides” who had been among those uprooted from the large, wealthy, thriving village that was al-Bassa. They took us on a trip back to the period when survivors began arriving in Israel and when, at the same time, other survivors, people born there to families who’d lived there for generations, were being expelled. We traveled back to 1948.
'Im Tirtzu targets Zochrot for promoting the return of Palestinian refugees
Author: Eitan Bronstein Aparicio 06/2012
The continuing disregard of the Palestinian Nakba by part of the Israeli public and organizations like Im Tirzu, and, in particular, refusal to accept responsibility for it, makes it possible for the violent repression and the occupation to continue, making the Palestinians suffer, in particular, but also undermines the lives and security of Israeli Jews.
Stretching the boundaries of discourse
Author: Gabi 06/2012
I think the left does a very good job opposing existing reality, being critical of it, but it often lacks an alternative program. Dealing with the return of Palestinian refugees, planning it, by definition presents a positive message rather than negating that which exists. I believe such an approach has three main advantages:
"Repairing the Nakba"
Author: Noa Levy and Eitan Bronstein 06/2012
I believed it would be natural to sing thePalestinian anthem. I thought that severing the anthem from the Nakba would be ignoring its context, that connecting the Nakba with the anthem would be something that every participant would find natural and understandable. Sa’ar thought otherwise – that here is where our alternative to the Zionist ceremonies must find expression – those ceremonies which can’t wait to harness every disaster and every trauma to the national narrative without respecting the disaster on its own terms, the suffering as suffering, the people as individuals. In the Zionist version, suffering becomes an instrument of national propaganda. When he’d finished we were all silent. You proposed that Sa’ar say those things from the podium. No one opposed the idea.
