Taking the State Out of the Body: Embodied Resistance to Zionism

The fight for Palestine is a fight for all of our aliveness. We cannot afford to be numb. The ongoing colonization of Palestine and current genocide we are witnessing can feel unbearably devastating. And yet, we must keep feeling so that we can keep fighting. As Jews, our trauma has been weaponized as a moral cover for genocide. And as people in the belly of the imperialist beast of the U.S., the government counts on our numbness as we implicitly consent to billions of dollars being sent to the Israeli apartheid state every year. We must keep feeling. We must keep resisting. We must keep transforming. In this workshop we will: disentangle from Zionist propaganda, root into anti-Zionist and anti-fascist histories of resistance, workshop difficult conversations, debrief organizing experiences, create space for our collective grief, and co-create a transformative environment through popular education and applied practice.

Goals of the retreat:

• Increase participants curiosity about the body and its implications for social movements
• Introduce concept of connections between trauma (particularly intergenerational trauma) with histories of fascism, genocide, and Zionism
• Build embodied resilience to face Zionist repression through political education on what antisemitism is and is not and more broadly disentangling from Zionist propaganda
• Introduce tools for navigating activation internally, in relationship, and in political struggle
• Equip participants to face difficult convos around Zionism and move people
• Co-create a transformative environment through popular education and applied practice
• Offer participants a visceral and embodied experience of the book