30. Eitan Bronstein in Ramat Aviv

05/16/18 • -1 min

“You know, me being Israeli, my very, very identity as Israeli, one of the most important components of being Israeli is being an occupier here”

In this episode we speak with Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, co-creator of Decolonizer (www.de-colonizer.org) and former director of Zochrot (zochrot.org) on the importance of alternative education even when immediate change is not on the horizon, creative in-the-street actions, ideas of Israeli identity, education, Pierre Nora’s distinction between history and memory specifically as concerns the Palestinian Nakba and the Golan Heights/Occupied Syria and travel in the Sinai!

[audio http://archive.org/download/eitan/eitan.mp3]

“You know, me being Israeli, my very, very identity as Israeli, one of the most important components of being Israeli is being an occupier here”

[audio http://archive.org/download/eitan/eitan.mp3]

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29. Bad Activist, Part II : Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2017

Welcome to the (second part of the) second version of Bad Activist: Sex Politics, Palestine and YOU... or maybe version 2.5. A play, by Humble Mumbles

Narrator: Who is this girl? [enter Bad Activist] I met her in Palestine but she’s not Palestinian. She’s an American. An American Jew. ... the star of this play and also my heart.

Bad Activist: The energy here is so topsy-turvy, so extreme of high and lows! I keep trying to flirt with people!..... but they’re too busy narrowly avoiding death. I get that [pause] It’s more inappropriate to be attracted to someone’s nationality than their body, right? More fetishistic?

Narrator [to audience]: I assumed she was joking so I didn’t answer her, not then, not now.

What was born at the Night Kitchen bit.ly/2hPVUd2
and transmogrified into a local art bit.ly/2A5RvgM
has now become... an Experimental Theatrical in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest of 2017 !

What it looked like: bit.ly/2mZKskL
What the people said: bit.ly/2vU8kq0 bit.ly/2hQgrOC bit.ly/2A5aXdW

See a newer, less brechtian Third Version of this play touring the East Coast of the United States in Spring 2018.

What you can expect in Bad Activist, Version 3.5 —>
more Shakespearean ghost sequences, confrontation, making out. Plus: brand new scenes! a whole new character!

[audio http://archive.org/download/bad_activist_at_art_-humble_mumbles-29/Bad_Activist_at_Art_Church_part_II.mp3]

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31. Two Americans and a Frenchwoman in Palestine

Welcome to the dubious ‘Foreigners in Palestine’ series!

In this episode, we speak with three young people from The West:

Alice, a French artist in Bethlehem,
Lily, an American archaeologist in Jerusalem &
Rebecca, an American layabout in Beit Sahour

Who ARE these 20-30-year-old white women in Palestine?

“Hamdulillah, Israel!”

In Episode 1 of our ‘Foreigners in Palestine’ series, our sassily uninformed reporter Rebecca speaks with her fellow Westerners in order to uncover the mystery aka ‘solve the conflict’*

Alice and Lily talk about laïcité, experiences in hamams in Nablus and synagogues in Chattanooga before, in Rebecca’s section, the episode takes a hallucinogenic turn into horror and dread

All these interviews were recorded in the vicinity of Bethlehem at Aida Refugee Camp (Alice), the parking lot next to Al Qasr kanafe (Lily) and Rebecca’s apartment by Il Forno restaurant in Beit Sahour

[audio http://archive.org/download/foreigners_in_palest/foreigners_in_palestine.mp3]