Inverse Journal

Rela Mazali

Colonizers, Annihilating and Civilian Armament — by Rela Mazali

Rela Mazali was born on kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch (in Northern Israel) in 1948 and grew up in Tel Aviv. Since the 1980s, she has been a peace activist advocating for the demilitarization of her homeland. As a writer and independent scholar, she has published several books, hybrid essay-tales, academic

Home Archaeology — by Rela Mazali

A Jewish activist woman from Israel conducts an "archaeological dig" into her immediate physical surroundings and the sites of her successive homes. It recounts her slow unlearning of Zionist erasures both of the dispossession of Palestinians previously living at these sites and of the discriminatio

Income Tax, Ramallah — An Essay Tale by Rela Mazali

A feminist activist from Israel revisits her partner's all but eye-witness account of a young Palestinian woman in occupied Ramallah who was forced to provide sexual services to Israeli tax officials. Years after the facts, she turns the rigor of her critical gaze at her failure of vision and potent