Restitution, Return and Justice
Author: Atty. Arie Yampuler 12/2012
The document is full of holes so fails to answer important crucial questions. But it is important to present to the sides and to the international community ideas and practical proposals for solving the Palestinians refugees issue in a humane manner that respects the human rights of all the sides, based on the principle that the violation o...
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
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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
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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
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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....