This chapter places Zochrot within what is seen as the ongoing crisis of the Israeli resistance movement. It reports the performative nature of its postmemory work. It also discusses the role of the Palestinian witness-victim in the telling of this very Israeli-Jewish story, and suggests that a more fruitful line of inquiry would be to excavate the testimonies of Israeli perpetrators. It is proposed that the relationship between Palestinians and members of the Israeli resistance movement is at best problematic. Zochrot's performance is a performance of Nakba co-memory. Many Palestinian...

This chapter places Zochrot within what is seen as the ongoing crisis of the Israeli resistance movement. It reports the performative nature of its postmemory work. It also discusses the role of the Palestinian witness-victim in the telling of this very Israeli-Jewish story, and suggests that a more fruitful line of inquiry would be to excavate the testimonies of Israeli perpetrators. It is proposed that the relationship between Palestinians and members of the Israeli resistance movement is at best problematic. Zochrot's performance is a performance of Nakba co-memory. Many Palestinian activists welcome Zochrot's co-memorative work, albeit critically and conditionally. Questions of appropriation and of using the ongoing occupation and oppression of the Palestinians as a tool for expressing Israeli dissent are beginning to be debated in a variety of media.