The Holocaust and the Nakba A New Grammar of Trauma and History
by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them.
#nakba / Shiblī, ʻAdanīyah, and Elisabeth Jaquette. Minor Detail. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
The true story of how a Bedouin girl was raped and murdered by Israeli soldiers.
[…] The Negev gang rape at the heart of Minor Detail is a true story, carried out by Israeli soldiers in 1949. Another minor detail: according to declassified documents, the real-life commander answered his superior’s question on whether the girl was eventually returned to her village by reporting that his soldiers killed her because “it was a shame to waste the petrol”.
[…] ISRAELISM uniquely explores how #Jewish attitudes towards #Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for #Judaism itself.
[…] Zimmermann is part of a growing trend of young American Jews who are no longer satisfied with the one-sided narrative marketed to them in Jewish communities, Jewish schools, youth movements, and Birthright trips, but are starting to examine it critically, shaking off the automatic identification of #Judaism with loving Israel, and taking action against the occupation and for Palestinian rights.
[…] In debates with Palestinian students, Zimmermann recounts in the film, she felt again and again at a loss. "I remember there were Palestinian students who stood up and said: 'You cry over being silenced and marginalized, but my uncles and cousins couldn't sleep for weeks when bombs fell over their heads in #Gaza,'" she says. "I was thrown into these conversations where people used words I had never encountered: 'occupation,' 'settlements,' '#apartheid,' and 'ethnic cleansing.' I always thought I knew so much about Israel, but suddenly when they mentioned all these words, I didn't understand what they were talking about. I felt embarrassed that we couldn't respond to their claims. Do we not have any successful counterarguments besides 'double standards' and 'antisemitism'? This really troubled me."
#documentary / The Great Book Robbery: Chronicles of cultural destruction (2012)
This is the director-cut of the version broadcast by #AlJazeera English, and is 10 minutes longer.
“Farewell my library! Farewell mansion of wisdom, temple of philosophers, institute of science, council house of literature!” ~ Khalil al-Sakakini
The story of 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly created State of Israel in 1948. The film interweaves various storylines into a structure that is both dramatically compelling and emotionally unsettling. The interviews centre on eyewitness accounts and cultural critiques that place the book theft affair in a larger historical-cultural context; in the process, new light is shed on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948 and the moralistic-heroic Israeli narrative of the 1948 war is deconstructed.
57 minutes, documentary, 2007-2012, Hebrew, English, and Arabic with English subtitles
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it.
In this rich and moving memoir, Abu Sitta draws on oral histories and personal recollections to vividly evoke the vanished world of his family and home from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the British withdrawal from Palestine and subsequent war.
In 2018, Palestinians marked the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the shaping of Palestinian identity and in galvanising the resistance to occupation.
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it.
Drawing together Palestinian accounts from 1948 with those of the present day, the book confronts the idea of the Nakba as an event consigned to the past, instead revealing it to be an ongoing process aimed at the erasure of Palestinian memory and history.
#nakba / studying or researching is not endorsing … but anyone who’s studying #history in the context of an apartheid/occupying state like Israel, would recognize the process by which any challenging narrative is perceived as a threat to national security or “social cohesion”
[…] Since communities that have been dehumanized are often not considered legitimate sources of information—including on their own suffering—allies have a crucial role in shifting narratives and pointing out collective cognitive dissonances. Take note of who might be telling you to leave history alone. Often, the quickest way to cut through misinformation is to ask what you are being asked not to look at. This usually involves “peeking behind the curtain” through direct interaction with the “other.” Allies are often well-positioned to do this work, as they can model the work of disentangling from an inherited narrative.
^At 1:43:50, Finklestein asserts that Israel would bomb a residential area, wait for people to come out and call an ambulance, and then bomb the ambulance.
^At 00:24:15, Ali asserts that Israel is willing to shoot their own civilians as evidenced by the Hannibal Directive, verifiable events, and testimonies such as Yasmin Porat’s where the IDF was shooting indiscriminately and even fired tank shells into Israeli homes.
Digging Up the #Nakba... case study of #Qadas (قدس), now in the Tel Qedesh National Park.
On the violent erasure of Palestinian villages after 1948, meant to prevent its inhabitants from returning to their lands:
“The destruction [in 1966] was so violent that we cannot identify even the foundations of many of the buildings. I can find walls that are from 3000 B.C.E. that are in better condition,”
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it.
The interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics and culture of Palestine.
I am going to use this thread to make a continuation of what I’ve posted in the first megathread where I shared a plethora of related links that share insight on the nature of this conflict.
^At 1:43:50, Finklestein asserts that Israel would bomb a residential area, wait for people to come out and call an ambulance, and then bomb the ambulance.
^At 00:24:15, Ali asserts that Israel is willing to shoot their own civilians as evidenced by the Hannibal Directive, verifiable events, and testimonies such as Yasmin Porat’s where the IDF was shooting indiscriminately and even fired tank shells into Israeli homes.
Digging Up the #Nakba... on the violent erasure of Palestinian villages after 1948, to prevent its inhabitants to return to their lands. Case study of #Qadas (قدس), now in the Tel Qedesh National Park.
“The destruction [in 1966] was so violent that we cannot identify even the foundations of many of the buildings. I can find walls that are from 3000 B.C.E. that are in better condition,”
Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)
Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread II (lemmy.ml)
This is the second megathread for discussion regarding the crisis....