'If I stay silent, I become complicit in the crime called Israel': An interview with the artist Ariel Bronz
He stuck a flag into his rear, was accused of incitement for a poem he posted, tied himself to a Holocaust monument and went on a hunger strike over theater budget cuts. Now actor and director Ariel Bronz is portraying – of all things – an artist who capitulates to power in Nadav Lapid's acclaimed film 'Yes!'
![Ariel Bronz. "The act of art pays too steep a price for provocation."](https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019b-a2dd-dd39-a7ff-ebffb13d0006/05/60/86b26a48410995d4a1b3348f4109/213845-2.jpg?precrop=1245,1464,x133,y438&width=620&height=729&cmsprod "Ariel Bronz. "The act of art pays too steep a price for provocation.". Credit: Photo: Ella Barak; clothing design: Hed Mayner")
Ariel Bronz. "The act of art pays too steep a price for provocation." Credit: Photo: Ella Barak; clothing design: Hed Mayner
He stuck a flag into his rear, was accused of incitement for a poem he posted, tied himself to a Holocaust monument and went on a hunger strike over theater budget cuts. Now actor and director Ariel Bronz is portraying – of all things – an artist who capitulates to power in Nadav Lapid's acclaimed film 'Yes!'
08:42 PM • January 09 2026 IST
It's 4 A.M., south Tel Aviv, mid-September. Three knocks on the door shatter the silence. "Police – open up!" Three police officers greet artist, actor and poet Ariel Bronz. Entering his apartment, they inform him that he is to accompany them to the station for questioning. They order him to hand over his cellphone and his personal computer.
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'If I Stay Silent, I Become Complicit in the Crime Called Israel'
