I am not sure I can find the words for what we went through today.
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A High Stakes Hugging Game, Um al ‘Arais, 14 January 2017
Non violent resistance can take many forms. What they have in common is that they need to be visible and they need to be seen. Continue reading
Unlocking the Eruv: Asfar, 12 March 2016
Photographs tend to personalize, not to visualize, as is the nature of microcosms. It is hard to avoid the temptation to focus a camera on the lone child standing beside one ruined house rather than on the systematic character of land appropriation as seen in borders and structures and other visual signs that articulate land through materials and shapes.
On this day the microcosm is a micro victory: The members of a Palestinian family were too afraid for years to enter their land next to the Israeli settlement Metzad (Asfar). But they realized that visual signs of neglect on the land could eventually lead to a declaration of abandonment followed by confiscation. They decided to risk returning. Continue reading