Yes Repeat No explores the complexity of the overlapping identities of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian Jew who was assassinated on the steps of the theatre he’d founded in Jenin.

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Mer-Khamis considered himself a living embodiment of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Born to an Anti-Zionist Jewish mother and a Palestinian Christian Communist father, Mer-Khamis became an internationally acclaimed actor who appeared in films including The Little Drummer Girl (1984) and Miral (2010). Later becoming a director, theater founder and political activist, he considered himself a living embodiment of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Though code-switching between the conflicting identities he inhabited, Mer-Khamis understood he was always viewed as an Arab in Israel, and a Jew in Jenin.

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Yes Repeat No asks whether it is remembering our past--or, instead, forgetting it— that allows us to break cycles of identity and conflict.