“This twilight is seen as possibility: possibly day, possibly night, neither wholly one nor the other. And, yet, it is time for creation.”

 

A visual exploration of American Jewish identity & anti-occupation activism in Palestine

 

  • A Diaspora Jewish activist faces Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

    1. Confronting occupation

    The Israeli military occupation controls every single aspect of Palestinian life, expanding Israeli settlements across the West Bank.

  • American Jews participate in a Sukkot event in New York's Prospect Park calling for protecting for Palestinian homes and children.

    2. Loss and creation

    Jewish anti-occupation activists, often ostracized from their home communities, create new identities and communities.

  • American Jewish activists join Palestinians in a village in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

    3. Showing up

    American Jewish activists spend time in the southern West Bank, supporting local activists and Palestinian communities.

  • American Jewish activists join a protest in New York City against policies of mass incarceration.

    4. American/Jewish

    Activists - identifying as both Jews and Americans - express a dual sense of responsibility for Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

  • A Jewish activist and Palestinian resident do construction work in a Palestinian community in the South Hebron Hills region of the Israeli-occupied. southern West Bank.

    5. Judaism is activism

    An evolving Jewish identity is being shaped by anti-occupation activism, and activism itself is a Jewish act.