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Mushon Zer-Aviv

Ep. 285
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Artist, designer, technologist, writer, and Israeli peace activist, Mushon Zer-Aviv shows us why binary partisanship in the Israeli-Palstinian conflict hurts everyone, and what to do about.


📕 Your Empathy is Killing Us is now available.


About Mushon Zer-Aviv

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, writer, educator and activist based in Tel Aviv. His work often involves mapping and way-finding through physical, digital and political landscapes. These are also the themes he explore in his current research titled Friction and Flow — a design theory of change. Mushon is a member of the Israeli/Palestinian movement A Land For All - Two States, One Homeland, He is a senior faculty member at Shenkar College and an alumni of Eyebeam - art and technology center in New York.


Show Notes:

Support Israelis and Palestinians working towards a shared future:

A Land For All - Two States, One Homeland

Read Mushon’s articles:

Your Empathy is Killing Us

Israel Commits Suicide of Biblical Proportions, and America Is There to Assist


Also mentioned:

Hope in the Dark / Rebecca Solnit

The Carrier Bag of Fiction / Ursula K. Le Guin


Keep up with Mushon Zer-Aviv

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