The Struggle Uses Images to Counter the Wall Interview with Shai Pollak from the Nyon film festival from Solidarités During an interval in the screening of Shai Carmeli Pollak’s film Bil’in Habibi (Bilin my love) at the Nyon Film Festival, we discussed the film with its creator; an activist in the Israeli group “Anarchists against the Wall.” 1 You made this film which tells of the villagers of Bil’in’s struggle against the apartheid wall that Israel…

Ha’aretz: Flee, Freedom Fighter, Flee by Yonatan Pollack, translated by Rann Bar-On The basis of my political education, on the price one must pay for the struggle, was very close to home – within the family in fact. My grandfather, Nimrod Eshel, was among the leaders of the seamen revolt in the early 1950’s. In a desperate attempt to break the strike and with no reason to arrest them, Ben Gurion instructed that he and others…