Eitan Bronstein Aparicio is the Founder of Zochrot, a Tel Aviv-based organization dedicated to “disseminating historical information about the Palestinian Nakba.” He served as Director from its founding in 2002 until 2011. Aparicio is the author of numerous articles, including “The Nakba in Hebrew: Israeli-Jewish Awareness of the Palestinian Catastrophe and Internal Refugees,” published by Zed Books in Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees (2005).
In 2015, he co-founded the group De-Colonizer, a “laboratory” dedicated to sharing research on Israeli identity through “artistic and political performances.” Currently, Aparicio is serving as co-director of the multifaceted group. Aparicio was born in Argentina and migrated to Israel at the age of 5. He fulfilled his mandated service to the Israeli Army and then proceeded to refuse conscription three times when his service was request in Lebanon and the West Bank.
