Study Visit to Cape Town
Author: Zochrot-Badil 01/2012
We hope that whoever reads this will not treat it as a manual of return proposed by Badil and Zochrot, but rather as what it is: an attempt to begin to discuss and answer questions about return by a particular group of people at a particular time after engaging in a very particular experience
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On (not) Speaking Zochrot in German
Author: Cornelia Siebeck 01/2012
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Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948
Author: Alon Confino \ Indiana University Press 2012
On a beautiful Mediterranean coast, in the newly-established state of Israel, one way of life violently and abruptly ended and a new one began, when the inhabitants of Tantura squarely faced the war on 22–23 May 1948 for a brief period of 25 days—from the Jewish occupation of the village, the arrest of the men and the expulsion to Fu...
Fragmented Dreams
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Eleonore 12/2011
They tried to imagine their lives together when the Palestinian refugees returned. They did so with simple drawings accompanied by explanatory text
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A panel and discussion on The Nakba and the right of return at Tel Hai
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Eleonore 12/2011
As Walter Benjamin's History Angel, Israelis and many people in the world see the horrors pile rising to the sky and they want to stop the wind pushes us over the edge or at least stop naming it "progress", "villa in the jungle" or "democracy"....
Palestinian refugees at the human rights march in Tel Aviv
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Galit Aloni 11/2011
In that fleeting moment when my eyes moved over the posters/faces/people, from one, to the next, thinking I may see my grandfather, or a perhaps his father or mother, a particular face looks into my heart, into my soul, and I can’t turn away...
Toward a New Language
Author: Eitan Bronstein 10/2011
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Overdue Books: Returning Palestine’s “Abandoned Property” of 1948
Author: Hannah Mermelstein 09/2011
his study will focus solely on the 6,000 books with the “AP” designation, and aims to contribute to uncovering a particular historical episode and to offer suggestions on how to move forward with the information the study gathers. It will place the story of Palestine’s looted books in the larger political contexts of Zionis...
In the Absence of an Iconic Image
Author: Aviv Gross-Alon and Eitan Bronstein 09/2011
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Three stories
Author: Miri Litvak 08/2011
Great Uncle Garik works at the university now. He and his friends invented a method for electromagnetic measurements that measure something in the water. Grandpa explained to me that this is a very important scientific invention and that they even wrote a story about it in Haaretz. Grandma showed me the story with a picture of Great Uncle Gari...
A Longing for the Good Land
Author: Mahmoud al-Rimawi 08/2011
Removing the kufiyya and iqal from his grey head, Abu al-'Abd tossed them onto the dirty blanket beside him. He heaved a deep sigh, for the heat was unbearable and he did not dare to strip the Agency uniform off his thin body. The tent had no door, and there were girls and women across the way. Undoing the laces of his heavy boots, he flun...
63 Years of the Palestinian Nakba: Notes from the BADIL-Zochrot Seminars on Practical Aspects of Refugee Return
Author: Akram Salhab 08/2011
Over the past 63 years the Palestinian people have continuously and unceasingly been expelled from our homes and properties and forced to live in exile, refugee camps and ever-smaller ghettos in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. As Palestinians take stock of our struggle for justice over the past 63 years, we continue to dream ...