Act of Recognition at Imwas Village
Author: Tsipi Erann. Photography: Paz Tsur 05/2012
Regime change passes through its zero year: 1948
Author: Adi Ophir 05/2012
It is difficult to underestimate the role played by Zochrot in transforming the discourse and awareness of the Nakba. While you did not create the conditions that allowed your voice to become so significant, you were there to provide something that is more than a vocabulary or a narrative
Demilitarized Home-Lands
Author: Eitan Bronstein 05/2012
The plan is to turn the site into a visitor center for Palestinian refugees who wish to be reacquainted with the land to which they have never been allowed to return
Fifth Symposium and Closing Night at Zochrot's Exhibition “Towards Return of Palestinian Refugees”: Planners Respond to the Exhibition
Author: Eitan Bronstein 05/2012
Aviv said the exhibit is trying to develop a new discourse, one that doesn’t yet exist, a new language, to involve others in, that’s confusing at first. I’d like to open the discussion with reference to this new language: What does it mean to invent one’s own language? How much clearer is it?
"Bibi's House" - A discussion at Zochrot gallery
Author: Eitan Bronstein 05/2012
“And what would your grandfather say?”
Author: Amaya Galili 04/2012
what my grandfather did in the Nakba? Did he see the expultion of the Palestinians from the Hula Valley and the destruction of their homes? Did the same man who nurtured good relations with his arab neighbors also expelle them and prevent their return? Were they his neighbors, friends, enemies or all the above? How to reconcile these contradictions when there's no one to ask today? What my grandfather did during the Nakba?Did he see the expultion of the Palestinians from the Hula Valley and the destruction of their homes? Did the same man who nurtured good relations with his arab neighbors also expelle them and prevent their return? Were they his neighbors, friends, enemies or all the above? How to reconcile these contradictions when there's no one to ask today?Here’s what I wrote in an attempt to try and look for some answers. I was inspired by Tomer Gardi’s Stone, Paper, (HaKibbutz HaMeuchad Publishing House, 2012). I presented this during the book launch at Zochrot, 8.5.2012.
AS THOUGH 2000 YEARS HAVE GONE BY
Author: Liat Rosenberg 04/2012
"Public nuisance " was how police called a peaceful activity by Zochrot on the eve of Israel's Independence Day. Members of Zochrot sought to remind partygoers in Tel Aviv of the disaster which befell the Palestinians in 1948 and found themselves besieged by police officers.Liat Rosenberg on the perceived threat of the Nakba discourse and its irreversible colonization of the Israeli psyche
Nakba commemoration ceremony at Tel Aviv University
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Activstills 04/2012
We, Jews and Arabs, have gathered here today to commemorate the Palestinian catastrophe, the nakba.Those who were killed, those who were expelled from their villages, those who fled for their lives, who were not allowed to return home, who became refugees in their own land and in foreign refugee camps.
