Join us as activists Eitan and Eléonore lead us in a reflection on their book: Nakba - The Struggle to Decolonize Israel.
The Nakba is something which was, for a long time, not discussed in Israel and it took 15 years of struggle to place discussion of this subject at the centre of Israeli discours. This was the front line of a battle against an established colonial narrative which started at the end of the 19th century and which continues to this day.
This important book explores the experience of Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, a leading voice for political change in Israel. How did this young Israeli kibbutznik, once a left-wing Zionist, become a radical anti-Zionist? In a dialogue with Eléonore Merza Bronstein, a political anthropologist, they draw a moving personal story with the unrolling of an epic section of history. What emerges is the hope that a new generation of Israelis will free themselves from a collective colonial identity and will conceive of a way of cohabiting on this land legitimately, in a way that will be fair for all.
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"In love and struggle, this book fathoms the road to co-habitation on the far side of colonial rule and its brutal history and present." Judith Butler
About the speakers
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio is an Israeli educator. He received his MA in Hermeneutics from Bar Ilan University. After serving for over ten years as the coordinator of encounters and projects between Jews and Arabs at the School for Peace at Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salam – he founded the NGO Zochrot and served as its Director until 2011. He is the author of numerous articles. In 2015 he co-founded De-Colonizer and is its current co-director. He is also a video director and editor.
Eléonore Merza
Eléonore Merza Bronstein is a political anthropologist and holds a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Her main fields of research are social protests, political mobilizations, gender and feminisms and memory activism. In 2015, she co-founded De-Colonizer and is its current co-director. After over 12 years spent in Palestine/Israel, Eléonore is now based in Brussels where she runs the research department of the feminist NGO Vie Féminine. She is also a photographer and a writer.