On (not) speaking Zochrot in German - Incompabilities between contemporary German memory discourse(s) and Zochrot’s political agenda
Author: Eitan Bronstein, Cornelia Siebeck 03/2012
A projective discourse about Israel/Palestine that is very much entangled with the past, however, is apparently not a specifically German phenomenon...
I have a dream - to see the Palestinian refugees return
Author: מורן בריר 03/2012
Throughout my entire life, the regime has tried to get me to join its side. But if its side includes looting, hindering and repression, I’m not joining!
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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...
