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Contested Land, Contested Memory
November 29, 2013
Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
1948: as the British colonial mandate ends, Jewish and Arab Palestinians are caught up in an increasingly brutal war. While Jewish refugees, survivors of the Shoah, struggle towards Palestine, Arab refugees are leaving, many under duress. Out of the chaos and violence, a new state is born.
Sixty years later, Palestinians remember it as the Nakba. Both Nakba (in Arabic) and Shoah (in Hebrew) mean the same thing: Catastrophe. For Palestinians and for Israelis, the remembered history of a traumatic past has shaped their collective understanding of who they are as a people.
After a war, the victors decree how the past is remembered, and the new state of Israel was free to excise the history of the stateless Palestinian Arabs. Their new state was shelter from that traumatic past and security against a similar future, and there was no room for anything that might threaten that security — including the story of 750,000 absent Palestinians. School textbooks made no mention of the refugees, or stated simply that they ran away. Maps were rewritten and Arab names changed to Hebrew. Empty villages were demolished and forests planted over their ruins, so that the traces of longtime Arab presence in the land became invisible.
Contested Land, Contested Memory explores Israel’s relationship with the difficult alternative narrative of its founding.
Time: 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.beitzatoun.org/event/contested-land-contested-memory/
Phone: 647-726-9500
Categories: Journalism, Writing, Literary, Language
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