Muchayem Lagi'in Israeli'in: Of one housing struggle and another
Author: Ofra Yeshua-Lyth 06/2011
Pointing at the basic choice of Israel to be a state for only one sector, defined by its religion, as the basic cause of this country's many malaises, including the housing situation.On August 4 at 19:30 a discussion will be held in Zochrot, 13 Mane Street in Tel Aviv with the writer and Raja Ommari on the subject "Politics, Religion and Democracy," hosted by Mathan Boord. Link to the author's site: http://mystateofmind.co.il/
I'm boycotting
Author: Eitan Bronstein 06/2011
More and more Facebook pages display photographs of Israeli leftists wearing buttons declaring they’re boycotting products from the settlements
Educators teaching the Nakba in spite of political persecution by the Legal Forum for Eretz Israel
Author: Eitan Bronstein 06/2011
As in a regular ritual, The Legal Forum for Eretz Israel has asked the Minister of Education to prevent this activity organized by Zochrot. The newspaper "Makor Rishon" published an item on this last Friday, under the "intelligent" headline: Nakba Studies and Hotel Accommodation for 100 Shekels
Ten Days of Return
Author: Husein Chawich 06/2011
It all began with an email – “The Goethe Institute in Ramallah is pleased to invite you to read from your book ….”
Husein Chawich
A report from the BADIL-Zochrot joint actions: Practical Approaches to Refugee Return
Author: Akram Salhab/ Badil 05/2011
Exile and Return to Miska
Author: Ahmad Barclay 05/2011
Exile and Return to Miska, by Ahmad Barclay, developed out of Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR), in Beit Sahur studio. Ahmad’s narrative of ‘re-emergence’ imagines a return taking place in four stages: first, symbolic interventions on the site of the village; second, a token return to Miska by Palestinians living in Israel; third, an actual return by a handful of other families, who begin to recreate the urban fabric; fourth, a solidification of the urban fabric as the remaining families choose to return or to remain absent.
Port in a Storm
Author: Shay Fogelman \ Haaretz 05/2011
The mass flight of Haifa's Arabs remains one of the most contested events of the 1948 war. Yet despite strong evidence to support Arab claims, Israeli historians remain economical with the truth. Here's the story they don't want you to know.
It Took a Village
Author: Rona Sela \ Haaretz 13/05/2011
In the 1940s, the Haganah collected detailed intelligence information about hundreds of Arab villages and photographed them, in many cases from the ground and also from the air. Only a few dozen of these 'village files' survive in local archives, but their photos constitute a valuable, missing chapter in Palestinian history.
