To mark the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel that was celebrated in Israel this Thursday, we were invited by Israeli activist Eitan Bronstein to a special action in front of the Israeli Embassy in Brussels. In an interview, Bronstein spoke to us about his career as a post-Zionist activist whose organisation Zochrot brought the word "Nakba" — The Palestinian disaster of 1947/48 — into Israeli-Hebrew discourse and awareness, about the entanglement between the Nakba and the Israeli independence, about creating alliances, unlearning history and, by doing so, getting closer to where one comes from.
For more information turn to the website www.zochrot.org of Zochrot, the organisation Bronstein founded in 2001, and the website www.de-colonizer.org of De-colonizer, his current project in collaboration with his partner Feminist activist Eléonore Merza, including information on the book titled Nakba (in Hebrew and French, soon in English) https://www.de-colonizer.org/notre-livre-fr
Interviewed by Eitan Efrat.
This piece is part of a series with interviews, readings, and other sound pieces which are regularly published on this site. More info on Level Five via www.levelfive.brussels
