Sapir is a community organizer, lecturer and a law phd candidate. She is the co-founder of Breaking Walls, a feminist grassroots organization, and the founder of "Mizrachion: The People's Archive for Social and political Movements in Israel." Her work spans legal advocacy, grassroots activism, and feminist community organization, focusing on poverty eradication, and support and solidarity between underprivileged populations. She has led campaigns for public housing, projects to protect the freedom to protest, against police brutality, and against the deportation of African refugees and the release of abused women prisoners. In this episode she tells her story of disillusionment, and how she reached the point of trying to stop Israeli settlers with her own body from blocking and vandalizing aid trucks to Gaza this past summer.

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A few important disclaimers:

This podcast was created and funded privately by me. I don’t belong to any organization, nor does it represent anyone other than myself.

Secondly, I don’t intend this content to provide a justification or excuse for the actions people interviewed did in their past, but rather to learn from their personal experiences and gain insight as to what the process of transformation looks like. Certain parts of the episode could be triggering for you, and I advise taking into consideration that some of the events discussed are morally and ethically challenging (to say the least).

And lastly:

I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I work as the indigenous people of this country, and pay my respects to their elders, past and emerging.

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Thank you Roy Geva for the soundtrack

You can contact me at @yehavit on Instagram (or write to yehavit@gmail if you’re not on Instagram)

Stuff we mentioned:

Breaking Walls: https://shovrot.org.il/en/

https://www.972mag.com/shovrot-kirot-mizrahi-feminist-activism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5P4la6fwUY

Anat Kamm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anat_Kamm

Tarabout-HitKhabrout: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95%D7%98

ACRI: https://www.english.acri.org.il/

Dalal Daud: https://www.timesofisrael.com/woman-who-killed-abusive-husband-gets-early-release/

HaEzrachion (formerly known as HaMizrachion): https://ezrachion.org.il/english/

“Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy” (Democracy Now interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaJa3dUfpYY

Interview with CEO of CoinMENA, Talal Tabbaa