Eitan Bronstein Aparicio (born 1960 in Argentina) is an Israeli-Argentine anti-Zionist activist, educator, and researcher. Immigrating to Israel at age five, he served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) before becoming a conscientious objector during the 1982 Lebanon War, serving prison time for refusing to deployment in Lebanon.
In 2002, Bronstein Aparicio founded Zochrot (“Remembering” in Hebrew), an Israeli non-governmental organization dedicated to introducing the history of the 1948 Nakba to the Israeli Jewish public. Under his direction until 2011, Zochrot conducted spatial research mapping depopulated Palestinian villages, published educational materials in Hebrew, organized tours to destroyed sites, and placed physical memorial signs across historical locations in Israel.
In 2015, alongside anthropologist Éléonore Merza, Bronstein Aparicio co-founded De-Colonizer, a research laboratory and art project focused on producing cartographic tools, research reports, and visual media advocating for a decolonized, single egalitarian state in Palestine/Israel. Together, they have co-authored key studies on historical memory and decolonization, including Nakba in Hebrew: Political Adventures of a Term (2018) and Nakba: The Struggle to Decolonise Israel (2023), both of which examine how the memory of the Nakba is contested within Israeli society and propose practical frameworks for spatial and political return.
Bronstein Aparicio supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and advocates for the full implementation of the Palestinian Right of Return. Framing the end of Zionism as a necessary condition for justice, he wrote regarding global leverage against state violence: “Colonizers should be defeated, which I hope will happen soon to Israel. Hopefully, the defeat will result from economic, political, and cultural boycotts, as in the case of South African apartheid, but maybe the world will have to exercise physical violence or at least prevent Israel from its massive lethal weapons.“